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7636929 Method and apparatus of providing and receiving video services in digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system  
There are provided a method and apparatus for providing and receiving a video service in digital audio broadcasting (DAB). The video service providing method includes: storing information related...
7634793 Client-server architectures and methods for zoomable user interfaces  
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for communicating and processing data in communication networks, e.g., cable networks and/or interactive television...
7627881 Transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus  
A transmitting system for transmitting contents data, meta data, and meta data schema. A meta data schema that represents the structure of meta data of contents data is stored in a meta data schema...
7614068 Prioritization of electronic service guide carousels  
Prior art methods of receiving, organizing, and implementing the data transmitted to mobile devices, such as ESG fragments, have a great impact on mobile device performance and battery lifetime....
7606925 Video delivery workflow  
Each transmission received from a video asset owner includes information regarding a video asset that is available for real time distribution during a future time period to third parties. Following...
7607152 Demand-cast system and bandwidth management for delivery of interactive programming  
A system for more efficient utilization of the finite bandwidth available for distribution of interactive program guide (IPG) video sequences. The system utilizes a session manager and a transport...
7607153 Transmitter system and transmitting method, receiver system and receiving method and transmission media  
There is provided a system which allows information related to a broadcasting program to be processed efficiently. The program related information related to the certain program created on the...
7594249 Network interface device and broadband local area network using coaxial cable  
A local area network uses coaxial cable wiring for interconnection of terminal devices. A frequency selective network interface device is placed at the building point of entry or another point in...
7594248 Method for identifying extender text table of electronic program guide in digital TV  
A digital television (DTV) receiver and a decoding method, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV receiver includes: a receiving unit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal...
7594247 Method and apparatus for preparing and transmitting electronic program information and apparatus for producing electronic program guide from the electronic program information  
General electronic program information described on a general level and individual electronic program information described on an individual level are prepared according to electronic program...
7564873 Method and apparatus for providing in-band messaging within a video on demand environment  
A method and apparatus for providing in-band messaging through a video switch or other functional element forming a multiplexed content stream prior to transport processing and/or transmission of...
7543324 Pre-fragmentation of data destined for low resource clients  
Program data for use in electronic program guides is fragmented in advance of delivery to a low resource client. In the described implementation, the program data is fragmented into equal size...
7532805 Audio-visual data recording/reproducing device  
An AV data recording/reproducing device is connected to a digital broadcasting tuner and the like via an IEEE1394 bus, in order to realize high-speed transfer when duplicating or transporting AV...
7526786 Content programmer control of video and data display using associated data  
An interactive video system is disclosed that processes a video data stream and an associated data stream corresponding to the video data stream. The interactive video system displays a video image...
7523476 Digital/analogue TV receiver that renews a channel map using event information and virtual channel tables  
A digital/analogue TV receiver having a function for displaying an EGP screen comprises a controller for displaying the EPG (electric program guide) screen including channels and TV program...
7519982 Efficient delivery of interactive program guide using demand-cast  
Techniques to efficiently deliver interactive program guide (IPG). In one aspect, if an IPG page is requested by a viewer and not already transmitted, only the guide portion for the requested page...
7490343 Method and apparatus for keeping track of program indexes in an interactive delivery system  
Indexing techniques to maintain track of IPG pages and allow a terminal to determine whether a selected IPG is currently received and available, which regions are to be assembled together to...
7464394 Music interface for media-rich interactive program guide  
Techniques for providing a music interface in a media-rich interactive program guide. In one implementation, an interactive music interface page includes one or more (e.g., two) display regions, a...
7444660 System and method for generating metadata for video programming events  
A device for generating metadata for a programming event receives data corresponding to a programming event that includes descriptive information and timing information. The device analyzes the...
7434245 Electronic program guide system using images of reduced size to identify respective programs  
A technique for transmitting and receiving an electronic program guide which identifies programs that are to be transmitted. Electronic program guide (EPG) data includes image data representing...
7426742 Differentiated PSIP table updated interval technology  
A method to optimize a bandwidth of a digital television (DTV) transport stream and to determine transmission cycles for tables to be transmitted as part of the DTV transport stream, the method...
7424729 Differentiated PSIP table update interval technology  
A method to optimize a bandwidth of a digital television (DTV) transport stream and to determine transmission cycles for tables to be transmitted as part of the DTV transport stream, the method...
7409702 Auxiliary program association table  
A method of identifying programs in a digital video communication system, consistent with certain embodiment of the present invention involve generating an auxiliary program association table (PAT)...
7406705 Carousel exhibiting multiple occurrences of a module  
A carousel having multiple instances of at least one data or object module. The carousel may be encapsulated into a transmission, such as an MPEG-2 transport stream, for periodic transmission to a...
7380261 Method and apparatus for transmitting video and graphics in a compressed form  
An apparatus for compressing and transmitting both video and graphics portions of an interactive program guide (IPG). For an IPG that comprises a graphics portion and at least one video portion...
7360230 Overlay management  
A method of personalizing a broadcast channel, comprising: receiving an input from a user ( 110 ); and personalizing the broadcast channel; and transmitting the personalized broadcast channel to...
7325245 Linking to video information  
A system enables dynamic linking between a variety of video formats including television broadcasts, web pages, and video displays which are stored on magnetic or optical media. Each frame of the...
7302434 Transmission of data items  
A system is disclosed for transmitting a plurality of data items from a transmitter to one or more receivers. Each data item (Di) is identified by a unique number (i) within a given range....
7284257 Announcing the availability of an electronic programming guide to receivers of enhanced television transmissions  
A unique session identifier may be utilized to announce the availability of an electronic programming guide to users of an enhanced television distribution system. In some embodiments, the unique...
7272657 System and method for displaying video streams ranked by user-specified criteria  
A plurality of video streams are simultaneously displayed on a terminal coupled to a network. The video streams are ranked according to a set of ranking criteria and displayed in accordance with...
7254824 Encoding optimization techniques for encoding program grid section of server-centric interactive programming guide  
An interactive program guide (IPG) may include a program grid section and a multimedia section. The program grid section typically contains program information organized in a grid with a time axis...
7246365 Method for identifying extender text table of electronic program guide in digital TV  
A method for identifying extender text tables of an electronic program guide in a DTV is disclosed. In the present invention, the extender text tables are identified by processing an ETT section in...
7228557 Broadcast program information processing apparatus  
A broadcast program information processing apparatus is provided which is capable of smoothly downloading broadcast program information to a plurality of broadcast program information receiving...
7210159 System and method for transmitting and utilizing electronic programs guide information  
Television schedule information transmission and utilization systems transmit TV schedule data and associated network control messages provided by computer as packets via the Video Blanking...
7191461 Method and apparatus for adapting program guides to meet subscriber criteria  
A system and method for adapting program guides to meet subscriber criteria, and for providing program guide information to selected subscribers based upon subscriber criteria such as the...
7185354 Apparatus and method for confirming data broadcasting  
The system of the present invention analyzes the content of digital broadcasting, generates an operational procedure for selecting selection items that can be controlled by a remote control, etc.,...
7181756 Television/internet terminal user interface  
A viewer of television programming is alerted to the availability of content related to the programming (e.g. an associated Internet web page) by an icon momentarily displayed on the screen. Using...
7181755 Digital broadcasting system and digital broadcasting station and digital broadcasting receiver  
The digital broadcasting station describes the first unique information as identification information in addition to the event identification prescribed by ARIB standard as opposed to LIT...
7178161 Method and apparatus for creating a connection speed detecting movie and rich media player customization on the fly  
A master movie and player are created on the fly. The master movie is created based on characteristics of a movie or other asset to be viewed by the player. The player is constructed from a...
7168085 Time-based selection of EPG data destined for low resource clients  
Program data for use in electronic program guides is selected for storage at a low resource client according to a preference for current program data over program data for a future time. In the...
7152237 Delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top-box  
A system and a method for delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top box (STB). The targeted advertisements may be delivered to the STB in a low bandwidth channel or in a high bandwidth...
7150029 System for formatting and processing multimedia program data and program guide information  
A device for reading or writing on optical recording media with disk type recognition capability has an optical scanning device and a focus regulating circuit. The object of the invention is to...
7146628 Messaging protocol for interactive delivery system  
Efficient messaging techniques that facilitate interactive program guide (IPG) delivery and allow a terminal to specifically designate requested items of information from a server. The IPG can be...
7137137 Composite media file broadcasting program broadcasting control system  
An organizing unit manages a program frame and a time frame of CM and a producing unit generates a composite media file to be broadcasted and a broadcasting schedule information. A schedule control...
7134133 Method, system, and software for creating and utilizing broadcast electronic program guide templates  
A method, system and software for broadcasting, receiving, providing and/or configuring an electronic program guide (EPG). A broadcast station broadcasts a template to a system where program...
7120925 System and method for displaying editorial content through television navigation controls and electronic program guides  
A system and method for presenting advanced editorial content items to subscribers in a distribution network. The method comprises presenting an electronic program guide comprised of data...
7117515 Method of transmitting/receiving additional information  
Disclosed is a method of transmitting/receiving additional information. The method includes the steps of transmitting video, audio, trailer, and EPG(program guide) signals respectively having...
7096487 Apparatus and method for combining realtime and non-realtime encoded content  
Methods for slice-based encoding of program guides and user interfaces. The program guides include multiple video streams for picture-in-picture and other applications. A method for encoding the...
7096485 Method and apparatus for filtering data concerning an electronic program guide for a television receiver  
The method of filtering data concerning an electronic program guide (EPG) in a television receiver having a device for automatically searching television channels includes supplying a list of CNI...
7076793 Program guide information producing apparatus and related program guide information collecting/transmitting system  
A program guide information producing apparatus outputs self-produced program guide information and other broadcaster's program guide information. In the program guide information producing...
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