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7617515 Method and apparatus for managing resources in a multimedia system  
A method and apparatus for managing resources within a multimedia system includes processing that begins by receiving a client request for a multimedia system service from one of a plurality of...
7603689 Fast start-up for digital video streams  
Described herein is a technology facilitating the presentation of digital video streams. An implementation, described herein, reduces the effective start-up delay in the presentation of the first...
7590997 System and method for managing, converting and displaying video content on a video-on-demand platform, including ads used for drill-down navigation and consumer-generated classified ads  
A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system for a digital television service provider manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of...
7587737 Fast start-up for digital video streams  
Described herein is a technology facilitating the presentation of digital video streams. An implementation, described herein, reduces the effective start-up delay in the presentation of the first...
7587735 Multimedia-data transmission system, apparatus and method  
In a system for transmitting multimedia data including video data, audio data, graphic data, text data and the like via a network, sets of media data are stored in a plurality of servers in a...
7546625 Pausing one or more ads, one or more ad groups, and/or one or more ad campaigns  
Helping advertisers by simplifying the management of interactive advertising. Such simplification can by achieved by allowing an advertiser to pause the serving of an ad, or some grouping of ads....
7543325 System for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior  
A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The invention accepts...
7533405 Nonlinear broadcast system  
A nonlinear broadcast system with improved entire resource utilization efficiency gives priority to securing hardware resources for broadcast, for preventing broadcast accidents. A hardware...
7533404 Apparatus and method for merging MPEG streams in a headend system  
A headend system includes an apparatus. The apparatus comprises receives a plurality of separate MPEG input streams; merges the plurality of separate input streams, and outputs a merged stream that...
7533192 Task scheduling method in case of simultaneous transfer of compressed data and non-compressed data  
The invention provides a task scheduling method which can prevent overflowing of a buffer on a host system or a data encoding/decoding apparatus even when the transfer rate falls in case the...
7526788 Graphic user interface alternate download options for unavailable PRM content  
A media system provides improved availability of purchasable recordable media content downloaded from a remote server. The media system preferably includes a memory with logic and a processor...
7506353 Apparatus and method for speed-change playback of digital TV  
Disclosed is a speed-change playback apparatus of a digital TV which performs better fast forward and backward performances by analyzing a transport stream inputted at the time of a time shift...
7487531 Method and apparatus of load sharing and improving fault tolerance in an interactive video distribution system  
Apparatus and method providing improved fault tolerance through redundancy of hardware and software suitable for use in a head-end of an interactive information distribution system. Communications...
7472198 Media file format to support switching between multiple timeline-altered media streams  
Media content is streamed from a server computer to a client computer. A media file format is used to store data for multiple timeline-altered streams that provides support for switching between...
7467221 Video server for video distribution system  
A video server for distributing a digitized video content includes a unit for determining whether or not a video content requested from a terminal is stored in the video server, a unit for issuing...
7464395 Method and system for adaptive transmission of smoothed data over wireless channels  
A method and system that reduces the impact of packet loss on video data quality. Packet selection is performed by the method and system to selectively drop low priority packets so that the overall...
7458091 System, method and article of manufacture for a business layer component in a multimedia synchronization framework  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for identifying a plurality of events which are played back simultaneously on a plurality of networked client apparatuses. First, a...
7448062 Seamless playback of multiple clips of media data across a data network  
A software architecture and control protocol that provides seamless playback of multiple clips of media data across a data network. Conventional server-based data network architecture where...
7444665 Interactive television system  
An interactive television system is described.
7444663 Menuing system for controlling content delivery within a video distribution system  
A menuing system for a video distribution system provides an interactive display to allow a user to select and control the delivery of program material. A central host computer processes initial...
7444662 Video file server cache management using movie ratings for reservation of memory and bandwidth resources  
Access to movies ranging from very popular movies to unpopular movies is managed by configuring sets of data movers for associated movie rankings, reserving data mover local cache resources for the...
7433577 Method and apparatus for reproducing television broadcast program digest  
An apparatus for reproducing a television broadcast program digest which stores a broadcast signal indicative of contents of at least one television broadcast program and guide data of the at least...
7421726 Method of seamlessly replacing disc-based video streams with memory-based video streams in a video-on-demand system  
In a video-on-demand system, disc-based video streams are seamlessly replaced with memory-based video streams. This is achieved by first switching each disc-based video stream to a mixed video...
7412714 Network delivery data transmitting method, network delivery data receiving method, network delivery data transmitting system, and network delivery data receiving system  
The present invention is intended to provide network delivery data transmitting methods and receiving methods which allow the selection of content data as desired by user. In a data transmitting...
7412703 Low cost, highly accurate video server bit-rate compensation  
A method, apparatus and system for adaptably distributing video server processes among processing elements within a video server such that video server operation may be adapted in a manner...
7401351 System and method for video navigation and client side indexing  
A system is provided where a number of representative video snapshots are displayed on a timeline indicating a position to jump to in a video using control buttons, such as fast forward, reverse,...
7398543 Method for broadcasting multimedia signals towards a plurality of terminals  
The invention regards a method for broadcasting multimedia signals towards a plurality of terminals as a data flow comprising successive packets, being organised into sessions, a session comprising...
7386879 Broadcast network with interactive services  
In an interactive broadcast system signals transmitted by a service provider ( 30 ) are passed via a gateway ( 12 ) to a subscriber terminal ( 2 ). In order to gain access to services, the...
7386873 System and method for provisioning a single physical drop to accomodate multiple devices  
A method and system for allowing a plurality of devices at a physical drop to receive access to video and/or data services from a plurality of video/data service providers in a digital broadband...
7373653 Channel merging method for VOD system  
A channel merging method for a VOD system, said method comprises the steps of: in response to requests from a plurality of clients for a video program, establishing a root channel (S 1 ) and at...
7370342 Method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming  
A system residing preferably in a television set-top box monitors the television watching habits of one or more viewers and creates one or more profiles for each viewers descriptive of various...
7363096 Digital audio signal filtering mechanism and method  
Essentially all of the processing parameters which control processing of a source audio signal to produce an encoded audio signal are stored in an audio processing profile. Multiple audio...
7360236 Data reception apparatus, data communication apparatus, information presentation apparatus, television control apparatus, data reception method, data communication method, information presentation method, and television control method  
A memory stores data supplied to each of a plurality of users via a communication network. A verification unit identifies a user. A reading unit reads data supplied to the user identified by the...
7352952 System and method for improved video editing  
There is provided herein an invention that utilizes a themed template which is designed to assist novice video editors quickly compose a complete video work which memorializes a particular familiar...
7349986 Method for data distribution  
Stream data is transmitted from a distribution server to a client without any loss of data. The capacity of a reception buffer to be prepared at the client can be made small and the network...
7343618 Video content transmitting system and method  
A video content transmitting system is provided in which a video content transmitting server among a plurality of servers is automatically determined as to which server can establish a network...
7343614 Program delivery system for VOD  
A novel network manager for use with a cable television system headend capable of monitoring and managing headend components and set top terminals in a television delivery system. The invention...
7340764 Data transmission system  
A transmission control unit ( 12 ) of a transmitting station ( 10 ) specifies usable plural transmission paths ( 20 ). A data supply unit ( 11 ) transfers movie contents file encoded by MPEG 4 to...
7310809 Scalable pay-by-time technique for secure multicast distribution of streaming content  
A method for receiving information content from an information distribution system, wherein the information content is divided into a plurality of content portions, the method comprising:...
7301944 Media file distribution with adaptive transmission protocols  
A server/client media file distribution system is provided in which the server system is adapted to receive transmission requests from clients, status information from a network, and protocol...
7299487 Control program, for a co-processor in a video-on-demand system, which uses transmission control lists to send video data packets with respective subgroups of internet protocol headers  
A control program for a co-processor in a video-on-demand system directs the co-processor to perform the steps of: a) obtain a transmission control list, from an external source, which identifies a...
7299486 Control program, for a supervisor processor in a video-on-demand system, which builds subgroups of internet protocol headers and transmission control lists  
A control program for a supervisor processor in a video-on-demand system directs the supervisor processor to perform the steps of: a) transfer a group of video data packets, from an externally...
7281035 Server reservation method, reservation control apparatus and program storage medium  
To allow many users to efficiently use functions of a processing server that performs predetermined processing, via a network and also prevent a time during which an user can use the processing...
7280662 Time-shifting data in digital radio system  
A satellite-based digital audio radio (SDAR) receiver is configured to temporarily store data that may be transmitted to the SDAR receiver at a time inconvenient to the subscriber. A memory...
7263714 Providing content interruptions  
Content which users may wish to receive may be distributed with interrupting content such that the use of the content on the user's receiver may be interrupted and replaced with the interrupting...
7254635 Apparatus and method for producing and managing data for optimizing the delivery of multimedia content  
A managing apparatus for managing data necessary for providing a content is disclosed, that includes a reserving element for reserving a delivery resource for each content, a storing element for...
7246367 Synchronized service provision in a communications network  
The invention relates to the synchronized playback of video and/or audio recordings in terminals of a communications network. A server stores recordings including timing markers, each of which...
7246366 System and method for automatically determining service groups in a subscriber network  
A decoder checks a table within its received input signal and tunes to at least one of the listed frequencies to determine its associated service group within a subscriber television system. The...
7243364 Interactive entertainment network system and method for customizing operation thereof according to viewer preferences  
An interactive entertainment network system has a video-on-demand (VOD) application which allows viewers to create their own customized lists of preferred video content programs, such as movies,...
7231653 Method for delivering transport stream data  
According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a transmission device that converts a transport stream in to a transport stream file (TSF), a transmission medium coupled to...
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