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7633945 |
Information distribution system, terminal device, server device, method of data reception and method of data transmission
An information distribution system and method capable of averaging a traffic load over time and effectively utilizing communication facilities, wherein a terminal station 30 transmits to a...
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7631036 |
Communication method, communication device, and program
To further correctly obtain related information about contents being received from a server. A communication apparatus 1 successively transmits request information that requests related...
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7627683 |
System and method for dynamically refreshing an active home screen
A system and method for providing time-sensitive information to a handset using a scrolling ticker. The method includes receiving the time-sensitive information at a server, determining the time...
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7624415 |
Techniques for optimizing use of channel bandwidth in on-demand content delivery systems
A system for optimizing bandwidth of a video-on-demand system is provided. According to one aspect of the system, upon receiving a request from a first subscriber for a program, the system delivers...
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7621814 |
Media enhanced gaming system
An integrated group of systems, processes, and controls that enable real-time/near real-time media (video and audio) enhancement and capabilities in a gaming environment. Media from a variety of...
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7617251 |
Systems and methods for freezing the state of digital assets for litigation purposes
Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for...
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7617516 |
Methods and systems for providing video on demand over a communication network using managed quality of service, bandwidth allocation and/or user profiles
Methods for providing video on demand service from an Application Service Provider (“ASP”) to a user over a Regional/Access Network (“RAN”) are provided. A request for a video on demand...
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7614071 |
Architecture for distributed sending of media data
Media data is distributed across multiple devices, and decentralized media data dissemination architecture is formed. Multiple respective senders are associated with multiple respective distributed...
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7596087 |
System and method for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a wireless communication medium
A method and system for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a wireless communication medium is provided. A central node receives one or more...
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7594250 |
Method and system of program transmission optimization using a redundant transmission sequence
A system and method of optimizing transmission of a program to multiple users over a distribution system, with particular application to video-on-demand for a CATV network. The system includes, at...
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7584497 |
Strategies for scheduling bandwidth-consuming media events
Scheduling functionality is described for resolving conflicts in the schedules of respective client devices, where the schedules are used to govern the recordation of media programs by the...
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7573816 |
System and method for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a wireless communication medium
A method and system for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a wireless communication medium is provided. A central node receives one or more...
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7568214 |
Providing multiple levels of interactive television service using triggers and trigger filters
An interactive television system includes “connected” receiver units capable of establishing bi-directional connections to remote information stores, such as Web servers, and “disconnected”...
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7548988 |
Software downloading using a television broadcast channel
A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository ( 1600 ) is mixed into a television broadcast system and...
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7546622 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling broadcast information
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for efficiently scheduling incoming information objects so that timely objects from a variety of content classes are scheduled for broadcast. The incoming...
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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...
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7530089 |
System and method for improving video quality using a constant bit rate data stream
A system providing video data in which a constant bit rate data stream is provided between a video source and a video destination, and has a fixed data rate exceeding a predetermined minimum...
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7530090 |
System for transmitting programs to client terminals
A system ( 100 ) has a collection of programs on a central storage device ( 112 ). The system ( 100 ) supplies a particular program to a plurality of client terminals ( 104, 106 ) in a...
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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...
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7496947 |
Cache device and method for generating a virtual radio or television broadcast
Method for generating a virtual radio or television broadcast by downloading data, including content, information, and advertising, in any order from a Web site on the Internet. The data is...
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7490125 |
Multimodal system and method
The invention relates to a system and method for coordinating multiple session multimodal interaction. The system and method includes a capability discovery module adapted to discover multimodal...
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7472197 |
Method and apparatus for automatic switching of multicast/unicast live TV streaming in a TV-over-IP environment
A system for live TV transmission over IP networks incorporates a content encoder receiving live TV broadcast and converting to RTP packets for multicast streaming. A streaming server receives the...
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7471639 |
Method and system for modulating media packets
A system and method for modulating a service conveying stream to be transmitted over a medium, the method includes: (i) receiving a service conveying packet belonging to the service conveying...
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7464396 |
Transmission and receipt of time-converging multi-media streams
An embodiment of the present invention is a method for transmitting a work to a client which includes steps of: (a) saving at least a portion of the work for a first period of time; (b) receiving a...
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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...
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7434248 |
Broadcast system and apparatus, sync information replacing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium recording the program
A broadcast system composed of a first broadcast apparatus and a second broadcast apparatus. The first broadcast apparatus broadcasts a broadcast program composed of contents stream data and...
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7421728 |
Interactive television receiver unit browser that waits to send requests
In interactive television, a broadcaster may broadcast triggers to a great many receiver units prompting the receiver units to attempt to send requests to a single destination on the Internet at...
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7412532 |
Multimedia scheduler
A song and ad scheduler supporting clip-based and stream-based scheduling of multimedia items generates several hours of schedule in advance. Having multiple channel capability, the scheduler uses...
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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...
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7350223 |
Multi-media data automatic delivery system
A system for delivering contents includes a center system which delivers the contents, a plurality of terminal systems which receive the contents from the center system and displays the contents,...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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7248581 |
Method and apparatus for injecting information assets into a content stream
A method and apparatus for transport encoded asset data and content data, multiplexing the transport encoded content data with a plurality of NULL transport packets to provide “place holder”...
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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...
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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...
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7191243 |
Scheduling and multiplexing data for broadcast transmission over multiple streams
Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating a data stream for broadcast to one or more client systems. A source identifier identifies where the data for the data stream may be...
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7188356 |
System for and method of transmitting and receiving program, center device, and terminal device
A program transmitting/receiving system has a center device and a terminal device connected through a communication device to the center device. The center device has a program information memory,...
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7150017 |
System and method for scheduling digital information transmission and retransmission on a network during time slots
The present invention is a computer system for delivering digital information over a network. A request receiving process receives a request for transmitting digital information after a start time...
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7117518 |
Information retrieval method and apparatus
In an information retrieval method and apparatus, a specific user model is formed for a specific user based at least upon the specific user's own selection data. A plurality of specific user models...
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7111316 |
Method for efficient, on-demand data streaming
Preferred techniques for transmitting on-demand data files include transmitting a first data stream in response to a first client request, and a new data stream in response to a subsequent second...
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7107606 |
System and method for highly scalable video on demand
An embodiment of a system and method for providing video on demand provides pre-scheduled multicasts of videos as well as dynamically initiated transmissions of the front portion of videos. Users...
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7100187 |
Method and system for providing an audio/video in-route entertainment system
An apparatus and a method generate customized content for in-route entertainment on a mobile element, such as an aircraft. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a shared program input for...
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7082142 |
System and method for delivering content in a unicast/multicast manner
The present invention is a system and method for enabling multicast synchronization of initially unicasted content. Multiple unicast streams are synchronized in order to convert the unicast streams...
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7080218 |
Real-time shared disk system for computer clusters
A clustered computer system includes a shared data storage system, preferably a virtual shared disk (VSD) memory system, to which the computers in the cluster write data and from which the...
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7080042 |
Method of and a system for distributing digital contents
In a digital content distribution method to distribute digital contents via a network, distribution of a digital content is instructed according to a distribution schedule, the digital content is...
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7069575 |
System for interactively distributing information services
In an interactive information distribution system that utilizes open sessions to provide requested information to users, a method for sharing the use of open sessions between a plurality of set top...
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7055165 |
Method and apparatus for periodically delivering an optimal batch broadcast schedule based on distributed client feedback
A method and system for periodically deriving an optimal batch broadcast schedule based on client demand feedback data from a distributed set of broadcast clients. The broadcast system includes an...
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7020893 |
Method and apparatus for continuously and opportunistically driving an optimal broadcast schedule based on most recent client demand feedback from a distributed set of broadcast clients
A broadcast method and system for continuously and opportunistically driving an optimal broadcast schedule based on most recent client demand feedback from a distributed set of broadcast clients....
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6985694 |
Method and system for providing an audio element cache in a customized personal radio broadcast
An audio element cache is provided that is capable of caching audio elements for each user in a personal radio server system. In operation, customized radio content is provided to remote listeners...
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