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8201205 |
Upstream bandwidth management methods and apparatus
A system and method for managing bandwidth of an upstream communications channel in a communications system.
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8201209 |
Recording system, receiving apparatus, recording apparatus, recording control method, and program
Disclosed herein is a recording system including a receiving apparatus and a recording apparatus, wherein the receiving apparatus includes, a creation section, and a reservation control section,...
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8191096 |
Control device and method for channel searching in image display device
Provided are a system and a method for channel searching in an image display device. When there are requests for channel searching and setting with respect to a broadcasting signal received through...
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8185922 |
Method and apparatus of verifying that requested content matches content to be downloaded
A system and method for distributing requested content includes a content management system 12 and a device 14 such as a set top box that selects a selection corresponding to content in the content...
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8185928 |
System and method for adaptive backoff
A system and method for providing adaptive backoff including one or more transmitters configured to transmit a first data request to a media module at a scheduled time, poll the media module to...
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8181209 |
Methods and apparatus for providing video on demand and network PVR functions using IP streaming
Methods and apparatus for supporting on-demand content services, using conventional non-IP based VOD servers are described. The methods and apparatus of the present invention, through the use of a...
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8176523 |
Human factors based video compression
Systems and method to compress digital video based on human factors expressed as a desirability score are provided. A particular method includes selecting a compression level based on the...
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8176522 |
Method for recovering a video-on-demand session
The present invention relates to a method for recovering a downloading section that has been interrupted, in a device comprising an interface with a network enabling access to a remote server and...
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8176524 |
System and method for wireless communication of video data having partial data compression
A system and method for wireless communication of video data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system transmits partially compressed video data from a transmitter to a receiver over a wireless...
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8171519 |
Video broadcasting method, apparatus, and system
A video broadcasting method includes assigning channels to a video content based on a total number of channels usable for broadcasting the video contents and a playback time of the video content,...
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8165055 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving time stamp to provide multicast service in communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting a time stamp to provide a multicast service by a base station in a communication system is provided. Upon receipt of a multicast service request from a first...
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8166510 |
Method and apparatus for distributing video on demand loading
A method and apparatus for distributing video-on-demand loading include processing that begins by receiving a concurrent additional request for accessing a video program (i.e., while the server...
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8166508 |
Content rental system
A content rental system includes one data store for storing rental content. The content rental system also includes a content server for transferring content to one viewing device based upon a...
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8161514 |
Program guide system with video-on-demand browsing
An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a viewer may direct a television to simultaneously display a selected television program and a program guide display. A viewer...
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8161512 |
Method for processing targeting descriptor in non-real-time receiver
A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) Receiver Targeting service is disclosed herein. A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT)...
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8161513 |
Method for receiving a broadcast signal and broadcast receiver
A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service and a broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of receiving a broadcast signal including an NRT service,...
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8151298 |
Method and system for embedding information into streaming media
A method and system for embedding information into streaming media is disclosed. In order to avoid a prolonged waiting period between the time a video stream is selected for viewing and the time it...
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8151308 |
Modifying the behavior of a multimedia transport system in response to detected capabilities of a client system
Modifying the behavior of a multimedia transport system in response to a detected capability of a client system. A client system may include the capability to perform portions of a multimedia...
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8151313 |
Content delivery system and method
A system for delivering content to users from a content provider, the system comprising a transmission system for transmitting content in a series of segments and a plurality of receivers for...
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8151314 |
System and method for providing mobile traffic information in an internet protocol system
A system comprises a server operable to deliver an Internet Protocol Television stream to a set-top box, and operable to retrieve an image from a first traffic camera. Upon receipt of a request...
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8146129 |
Apparatus and method for providing video content and supplemental information to a client over a switched digital video content-based network
Video content is transmitted from a head end, over a switched digital video content-based network, to a client. The head end obtains a first group of program streams and sends to the client only a...
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8132221 |
Methods, computer program products, and systems for packaging livecast electronic content for distribution
Packaging live broadcast electronic content for delivery on a content delivery network is provided. A first live program broadcast on a first channel is scheduled for delivery on a livecast...
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8122478 |
Method and system for interactive multimedia
A high capacity interactive multimedia system is provided that can deliver large number of concurrent video on demand and high speed data streams in an integrated fashion to a plurality of...
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8122479 |
Methods and apparatus for providing virtual content over a network
Methods and apparatus for selecting, purchasing and delivering content to users of a network so that the user has “virtual” ownership of and access to the content, thereby obviating the need for...
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8117328 |
System and method for automatically recovering from failed network connections in streaming media scenarios
Automatically recovering from broken network connections in streaming media scenarios. Server software executing on the server communicates with client software executing on the client during the...
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8104065 |
System to provide markers to affect rendering and navigation of content on demand
A content on demand system includes logic to deliver at least one audio and/or video stream and to insert markers in the at least one stream, the markers indicating a position in the at least one...
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8104063 |
Information storage apparatus, its control method, and storage medium
An information storage apparatus for processing a plurality of broadcast contents, where each content is subject to a respective use condition, includes a storage unit for storing such contents, a...
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8099750 |
System and method for bypassing an emergency alert break-in for a recorded event
Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system and a method for bypassing an emergency alert break-in for a recorded event. For example, in one embodiment, a set top box is disclosed that...
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8099756 |
Channel changes between services with differing bandwidth in a switched digital video system
Channel changes between services with differing bandwidth in a switched digital video system. A services map published by the headend and distributed to all of the edge devices, allows a bandwidth...
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8095956 |
Method and system for providing interactive programming
A method for providing interactive programming over a broadband network. A service provider provides a private data packet including the provider's address that is inserted between frames of a...
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8091109 |
Set-top box-based TV streaming and redirecting
A method for redirecting video content includes receiving a video signal at the set-top box and decoding the video signal to produce unrendered video data. The unrendered video data is encoded and...
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8087048 |
Television program guide with a digital storage device
An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to select a program for recording onto the digital storage device. The...
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8087056 |
Operating method of contents on demand system
A method of effectively operating a Content-On-Demand (COD) system is disclosed. Requests for content are received from COD clients. If the requested content exists in a COD server and the content...
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8087055 |
Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating distribution of recorded content
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating formation of content streams formed of content for distribution to content consumers. A request detector detects indications of demand for...
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8079053 |
System and method of deferring multimedia content delivery
Systems and methods of deferred multimedia content delivery are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a first customer premises equipment (CPE)...
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8074247 |
Visual improvement of video stream transitions
Four techniques which result in the visual improvement of transitions between video streams with a same packet identifier (PID). All four techniques are applicable in the situation where the stream...
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8069466 |
Advanced digital TV system
A system for displaying electronic program guide information about a plurality of video items on a screen, the system including a display module to display a plurality of pages layering into the...
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8064080 |
Control of data distribution apparatus and data distribution system
Upon distributing data from a first terminal apparatus to a second terminal apparatus, whether the data is to be distributed is determined in accordance with an access situation of a client to the...
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8065708 |
Method for reducing latency in an interactive information distribution system
A method and apparatus for reducing latency caused by information server processing of subscriber request wherein a plurality of content streams defined by a playlist are sequentially provided to a...
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8056105 |
Dynamic video-on-demand navigation and on demand ingest
A technique for supporting over-the-top video-on-demand separates metadata ingest and real content ingest such that navigation needs only the metadata ingest to have been completed. The real...
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8056106 |
Video on demand system with dynamic enablement of random-access functionality
The present invention provides a method for an interactive media services system to provide media to a user through an interactive media services client device. The client device is coupled to a...
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8054849 |
System and method of managing video content streams
A system and method for managing video content streams are disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of multicast video streams at a server and buffering each video stream within a...
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8051454 |
Personal media broadcasting system with output buffer
A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A...
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8046805 |
Method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal and broadcasting signal receiver
A method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal and a broadcasting signal receiver are disclosed. An identifier of a burst period is obtained from program table information of the...
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8046810 |
Method and apparatus for delivering subscription service content to roaming users
A subscriber or other user is provided with access to a subscription service of a signal distribution system at a roaming location remote from a home location of the user. The home and remote...
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8046811 |
Scheduled retrieval, storage and access of media data
A system and method automates a scheduled retrieval, storage, and access of media data. Media data is retrieved from an external source and downloaded to an end user media device storage for...
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8046815 |
Optical network for bi-directional wireless communication
A method for transmitting video data to the users via a network in a transcoder of an image processing system including a storage media having a predetermined amount of storage area is disclosed....
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8046802 |
Method and system for ordering and prioritizing the downloading of content from an interactive interface
A method and system for ordering content includes a first device having an ordering interactive interface. The first device identifies a user account. The first device forms a content selection...
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8046794 |
Method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal and broadcasting signal receiver
A method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal and a broadcasting signal receiver are disclosed. An identifier of a burst period is obtained from program table information of the...
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8046809 |
Multicast services control system and method
A multicast services control system is provided for Internet protocol television transport. The system includes a service distribution platform, at least one service concentration platform, and at...
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