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7382786 Integrated phone-based home gateway system with a broadband communication device  
A integrated phone-based home gateway system is disclosed. The integrated phone-based home gateway system includes a broadband communication device, such as digital subscriber line (“DSL”)...
7360235 Systems and methods for operating a peripheral record/playback device in a networked multimedia system  
Systems and methods are disclosed of a network including a primary device, a plurality of remote devices, and a shared peripheral device. The network allows the remote devices to operate the...
7305694 Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a receiver according to content and user selection  
System and method for automatically controlling a media receiver by instructing the media receiver to use a particular receiver connection and to play a selected media unit using one of a plurality...
7278153 Content propagation in interactive television  
A process of propagates viewing assets on a system of video storages. The process includes copying a missing portion of a replica of a selected viewing asset onto a target video server. The act of...
7278152 Video pedestal network  
An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber...
7272844 Lodging entertainment system with guest-selected time shifting  
A lodging entertainment system provides a variety of products and services, including free television, pay-per-view movies, video games, guest services, and guest-selected recording of television...
7272842 Digital content delivery system transaction engine  
A system for delivering digital content on demand in a multiple unit environment includes a server local to the multiple unit environment. The server stores, in its memory, the digital content, and...
7263710 Medical diagnostic system with on-line real-time video training  
A central service facility is connected via a network and a uniform service interactive platform to a multiplicity of remotely located medical diagnostic systems. The interactive platform includes...
7260825 System for providing DBS and DSL video services to multiple television sets  
Each of a plurality of remote control devices receives user-initiated video selections of any of direct broadcast satellite (DBS) channels, digital subscriber line (DSL) video content, and...
7222355 Multi-mode video processor  
A circuit arrangement and method are disclosed for providing a video signal to a video display from a selectable subset of a plurality of digital video data carried on a plurality of video data...
7200856 Connecting interchangeable connectors with pins shared by different cable types  
Systems and methods for recording a signal received by a home entertainment system that includes multiple consumer electronics devices interconnected to a central electronics device in a hub and...
7200855 Method and apparatus of multiplexing a plurality of channels in a multimedia system  
A method and apparatus for multiplexing a plurality of channels within a multimedia system includes processing that begins by receiving a plurality of channels from a multimedia source. The...
7194755 Information signal transmission system and remote control device for the same  
An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a...
7188353 System for presenting synchronized HTML documents in digital television receivers  
A method and apparatus is provided for synchronizing display of HTML documents to the audio/video content of a digital television program. Documents are authored with a structure for receiving a...
7177638 Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including digital radio service and associated methods  
An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes a headend unit, and a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft. The headend unit includes a digital...
7162730 Information communication systems  
A system for distributing electronic information signals throughout a structure, particularly a residential dwelling, is disclosed. The system adapts a plurality of electronic information signals...
7149332 Method and apparatus for internet, intranet, and local viewing of virtual microscope slides  
A method of and apparatus for viewing microscopic images include transmitting tiled microscopic images from a server to a client. The client assembles the tiled images into a seamless virtual slide...
7146633 Digital broadcast receiving device  
A receiving unit 101 repeatedly receives a transport stream, and a specifying unit 102 specifies a purchase state. A restoring unit 103 generates a first audio-digital (AV) signal and...
7143010 System and method for remotely monitoring, diagnosing, intervening with and reporting problems with cinematic equipment  
A system is disclosed for communicating with, and receiving data representative of equipment state and status from, movie theatre equipment in theatres. The system includes a central computer...
7137138 Broadcast signal receiving system  
Various kinds of broadcast TV signals can be watched on display devices at desirable places (rooms). High-frequency signals of CS broadcast, BS broadcast and terrestrial broadcast are received and...
RE39376 System for accessing amenities through a public telephone network  
An amenity accessing system is provided that includes an access telephone ( 10 ) with a plurality of access keys. The telephone includes a line powered card reader ( 62 ) that interfaces with a CPU...
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...
7132956 Electronic apparatus and remote controller  
A wireless AV station is furnished with an Internet browsing function, a TV viewing function, a TV recording and playback function and a message board function, and these multiple functions are...
7127734 System and methods for home network communications  
The present invention provides the ability to use existing cable TV wires for home networking.
7114171 Method for controlling an in-flight entertainment system  
A method for controlling an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system using network protocols, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, or FTP. Control of a plurality of functions, including in-seat and broadcast audio...
7099316 Photonic home area network  
An apparatus for a service node used in a multimedia network. The apparatus has a data distributor circuit, and a decoder. The data distributor card has a data port for coupling with a data stream....
7065782 Digital broadcasting system, digital broadcasting apparatus, and receiver apparatus for digital broadcasts  
A data transmission apparatus has a multiplexing unit that cyclically multiplexes presentation information and navigation information stored in a transmission data storage unit according to control...
7047554 System and method for integrating and controlling audio/video devices  
A processor integrating and controlling at least two A/V devices by constructing a control model, referred to as a filter graph, of the at least two A/V devices as a function of a physical...
7043748 Computer network comprising computing systems with remotely located human interfaces  
A computer network comprising a plurality of nodes, each coupled to a DTE device comprising a computing system and a remotely located human interface, which includes a display and at least one I/O...
7043745 System and method for reproducing a video session using accelerated frame recording  
A system for recording a video session includes a video server and a client coupled to the video server using a communication path. The video server communicates a start record command. The client...
7039943 Audio visual architecture  
Each output component (e.g., laserdisc player or output software component) has a source port associated with each type of the output signal that it can output. For example, an output component may...
7036140 Capacity scaling and functional element redistribution within an in-building coax cable internet access system  
A set of system configurations adapted to provide data communications to and from a set of client modems connected to one or more central modems through a tree and branch network such as exists in...
7032239 Providing content description and connection information in digital broadcast networks  
A system enables connection information and content description information to be separately transmitted from a broadcaster to a receiver. Thus, the description of the content may be provided to a...
7020890 Millimeter wave transmitter, millimeter wave receiver and millimeter wave communication system enabling simplification of wiring and improvement in degree of freedom for setting receiver in receiving system for terrestrial broadcasting and satellite broadcasting  
In order to receive satellite broadcasting (BS and CS) and terrestrial broadcasting (VHF and UHF), complicated wiring is required in a personal residence for transmitting broadcasting signals to a...
7000243 Allocating computer resources within a video distribution system  
A method and system for video distribution among a plurality of users uses a host computing device that allocates tasks among a number of audiovisual serving devices. A user can select between...
6983225 System and method for remotely monitoring, diagnosing, intervening with and reporting problems with cinematic equipment  
A system is disclosed for communicating with, and receiving data representative of equipment state and status from, movie theatre equipment in theatres. The system includes a central computer...
6981050 Digital remote recorder  
A method and system for recording and publishing traditional media source programs over a network is disclosed. According to the method, a request for publication of one or more traditional media...
6889385 Home network for receiving video-on-demand and other requested programs and services  
A system for providing video-on-demand service, broadband internet access and other broadband services over T-carrier systems including a pull multiplexer cherrypicker at the head end is disclosed....
6889207 Content control in a device environment  
Devices and methods are disclosed for controlling content within a device environment through interaction among electronic devices of the environment. The device has a transmitter, receiver, memory...
6848116 Method and apparatus for on-demand video program access control using integrated out-of-band signaling for channel selection  
An on-demand program access system for broadband, frequency division multiplexed cable television signals, one or more infrastructure element (IF) constituting a local video network signal server...
6826776 Method and apparatus for determining signal path  
A method includes integrating information regarding receiving, transmitting and converting capabilities of each device in a network with regard to signal formats, so that a pertinent transmission...
6826699 Method and apparatus for performing authentication and key exchange protocols with multiple sink devices  
A method and system for a source device to simultaneously perform authentication and key exchange (hereinafter referred to as “AKE”) protocols with multiple sink devices. In a communication...
6810527 System and method for distribution and delivery of media context and other data to aircraft passengers  
An end-to-end global distribution system that can produce and deliver live content as well as pre-recorded content and other content, to commercial passenger aircraft via a satellite and...
6799326 Interactive television program guide system with local advertisements  
A program guide system is provided in which local advertisements may be distributed to interactive television program guides implemented on the user television equipment associated with a...
6738981 General access system  
The present invention discloses a general access system for access to communication services, such as telecommunication, data communication and distribution of TV and radio. The access system...
6711261 Enhancing concealment in the presence of fine mistuning for various TV scrambling techniques  
An improved method and apparatus for maintaining concealment for a scrambled signal when frequency pre-emphasis is used to defeat the scrambling. The pre-emphasis may be synthesized with high pass...
6687907 Prevention of broadband cable service theft  
Detecting tampering of an incoming cable to which a network interface unit (NIU) is connected by testing for the reflected signal that is present when the signal being transmitted to the head end...
6622307 Multiple-room signal distribution system  
A multiple-room communication system is adapted to provide digital television programming (e.g. DBS) to a plurality of rooms in a single family dwelling and may be further adapted to provide...
6622304 Interface system for computing apparatus and communications stations  
A system for permitting an interface between a centralized in-home computing apparatus and a plurality of remotely situated in-home communications stations is provided. The system includes a...
6574798 System and controller for control and distribution of audio and video signals  
The object of the invention is to provide a system and controller for distribution of audio/video signals on a pay-for-use basis, to a customer in a controlled environment such as a motel, hotel,...
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