Patents
Patents for H04N 21 - Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television, vod [video on demand] (56,445)
07/2002
07/18/2002WO2000056072A9 System and method for miniguide implementation
07/18/2002US20020095687 Embedded content caching for interactive television
07/18/2002US20020095683 Information providing method
07/18/2002US20020095681 Uncompressed IP multimedia data transmission and switching
07/18/2002US20020095680 Personal movie storage module
07/18/2002US20020095679 Method and system providing a digital cinema distribution network having backchannel feedback
07/18/2002US20020095678 Interactive special events video signal navigation system
07/18/2002US20020095676 Interactive television program guide system for determining user values for demographic categories
07/18/2002US20020095675 Providing content interruptions
07/18/2002US20020095674 Providing content interruptions
07/18/2002US20020095613 Synchronizing motion and time-based data for transfer between a server and a client
07/18/2002US20020095367 Competitive access video/audio monitoring system
07/18/2002US20020094084 Method and apparatus for providing conditional access in connection-oriented interactive networks with a multiplicity of service providers
07/18/2002US20020094073 Telephony services provider arrangement for home area network
07/18/2002US20020094031 Distributed control strategy for dynamically encoding multiple streams of video data in parallel for multiplexing onto a constant bit rate channel
07/18/2002US20020094029 Client-assisted motion estimation for client-server video communication
07/18/2002US20020094027 Transmission header compressor not compressing transmission headers attached to intra-frame coded moving-picture data
07/18/2002US20020093596 Video amplifier circuits for multi-output distribution of video signals
07/18/2002US20020093594 Method and system for identifying addressing data within a television presentation
07/18/2002US20020093593 Multimedia computer and television apparatus
07/18/2002US20020093591 Creating audio-centric, imagecentric, and integrated audio visual summaries
07/18/2002CA2734753A1 Television receiver and method of operating a server
07/17/2002EP1223759A1 Method for providing an extension code for a binary description for multimedia data
07/17/2002EP1223757A2 System, method, and software application for targeted advertising via behavioral model clustering, and preference programming based on behavioral model clusters
07/17/2002EP1222823A1 Video communication using multiple streams
07/17/2002EP1222813A1 Apparatus and method for configuring a media storage system
07/17/2002EP1222812A1 Scheduling storage accesses for multiple continuous media streams
07/17/2002EP1222769A1 Active data hiding for secure electronic media distribution
07/17/2002EP1222759A2 Method and apparatus for upstream burst transmission synchronization in cable modems
07/17/2002EP0702877B1 Recording and reproducing an mpeg information signal on/from a record carrier
07/17/2002CN1359591A System and method for utilizing EPG database for modifying advertisements
07/16/2002US6421778 Method and system for a modular scalability system
07/16/2002US6421726 System and method for selection and retrieval of diverse types of video data on a computer network
07/16/2002US6421636 Frequency converter system
07/16/2002US6421465 Method for computational graceful degradation in an audiovisual compression system
07/16/2002US6421359 Apparatus and method for multi-service transport multiplexing
07/16/2002US6421358 Method and system for delivering a synchronized stream of broadcast event data, live event data, and static event data over a hybrid fiber coax network
07/16/2002US6421067 Electronic programming guide
07/16/2002CA2245564C Media online services access system and method
07/11/2002WO2002054783A1 On screen display as diagnostic aid
07/11/2002WO2002054775A2 Method for providing an extension code for a binary description for multimedia data
07/11/2002WO2002054771A2 Multi-standard channel decoder for real-time digital broadcast reception
07/11/2002WO2002054769A1 A method and apparatus for acquiring media services available from content aggregators
07/11/2002WO2002054768A1 Method for digital media playback in a broadcast network
07/11/2002WO2002054765A1 Method and system for control of broadcast content access
07/11/2002WO2002054760A2 Interactive television system
07/11/2002WO2002054754A2 System and method of selective advertising on a tv channel
07/11/2002WO2002054679A1 Computer network constructing method and computer network
07/11/2002WO2002054639A2 System and method for broadcasting advertisements
07/11/2002WO2002054335A2 System and method for switching voltage
07/11/2002WO2002054302A2 Statistical metering and filtering of content via pixel-base metadata
07/11/2002WO2002054196A2 System and method for the secure distribution of digital content in a sharing network
07/11/2002WO2002045422A8 Promotion server using video on demand channel
07/11/2002WO2002025936A3 Follow up correction to epg for recording systems to reset requests for recordings
07/11/2002WO2002017618A8 Distributed publishing network
07/11/2002WO2002015565A3 Structurally programmable channel decoder for digital broadcast reception
07/11/2002WO2001093577B1 Authorization using ciphertext tokens
07/11/2002US20020092023 Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium
07/11/2002US20020092018 Reusing the same hardware platform by loading different application software from a memory stick
07/11/2002US20020092017 Systems and methods for replacing television signals
07/11/2002US20020092015 Access control processor
07/11/2002US20020091866 Selectable mode multimedia system
07/11/2002US20020091849 Device and method for transmitting A/V data in network
07/11/2002US20020091816 Broadcast data access system for multimedia clients in a broadcast network architecture
07/11/2002US20020091799 Apparatus and method for updating content in a playback device
07/11/2002US20020091771 Network communications system and method for worldwide web broadcasting
07/11/2002US20020091642 The distribution of content
07/11/2002US20020090206 Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method for recording data into recording medium, and reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for reproducing data from recording medium
07/11/2002US20020090136 Method for computational graceful degradation in an audiovisual compression system
07/11/2002US20020090087 External memory for PVR
07/11/2002US20020090029 System for real time transmission of variable bit rate MPEG video traffic with consistent quality
07/11/2002US20020089973 System and method for integrating voice, video, and data
07/11/2002US20020089646 Web movie system
07/11/2002US20020089606 Automatic on-screen display of auxiliary information
07/11/2002US20020089548 Controlling processor-based systems
07/11/2002US20020089517 Method of and apparatus for handling high bandwidth on - screen - display graphics data over a distributed ieee 1394 network utilizing an isochronous data transmission format
07/10/2002CN1358027A Video data codec unit and method
07/10/2002CN1358000A Time controller for controling time and synchronizing with other device
07/09/2002US6418557 On-demand system enabling control of power-on/off of on-demand server
07/09/2002US6418556 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method
07/09/2002US6418473 Multimedia clent and server
07/09/2002US6418268 Image processing method for decoding compressed image data
07/09/2002US6418122 Method and apparatus for assuring sufficient bandwidth of a statistical multiplexer
07/09/2002US6417869 Method and system of user interface for a computer
07/09/2002CA2154038C Video optimized media streamer data flow architecture
07/04/2002WO2002052855A2 Embedding re-usable object-based product information in audiovisual programs for non-intrusive, viewer driven usage
07/04/2002WO2002052854A1 Data distribution system
07/04/2002WO2002052852A1 Catching of multimedia data in digital television receiving equipment
07/04/2002WO2002052846A1 Broadcast-program recording programming device and method, broadcast-program organizing device, and receiving terminal
07/04/2002WO2002052752A1 Data stream control system for selectively storing selected data packets from incoming transport stream
07/04/2002WO2002052730A1 Distributed on-demand media transcoding system and method
07/04/2002WO2002052470A1 Content data encoding system and content registering system
07/04/2002WO2002052469A1 Computer-readable information storage medium where content data is stored and content charging system
07/04/2002WO2002052461A2 Advertising system and method which provides advertisers with an accurate way of measuring response, and banner advertisement therefore
07/04/2002WO2002032120A3 Systems and methods for building user media lists
07/04/2002WO2002032107A3 Method for the graphical representation of motion in video in still images
07/04/2002WO2002025952A3 Regeneration of program clock reference data for mpeg transport streams
07/04/2002WO2001098913A8 Display facility supplementing experience of a visitor
07/04/2002WO2001082567A3 Telephone answering device with digital video recorder
07/04/2002WO2001076248A3 Systems and methods for improved audience measuring