Patent Examiner: Hirl; Joseph P
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Television receiving system
Inventor: Sasai, et al. | Patent Number: 8154601
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Unique production forum
Inventor: Doffing, et al. | Patent Number: 8146131
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Apparatus and method for providing data for a carousel
Inventor: Collins, et al. | Patent Number: 8146127
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PC media center and extension device for interfacing with a personal video recorder through a home network
Inventor: Coningsby, et al. | Patent Number: 8141117
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Information processing apparatus displaying indices of video contents, information processing method and information processing program
Inventor: Yamaguchi, et al. | Patent Number: 8132211
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Information processing device
Inventor: Kaizu, et al. | Patent Number: 8132209
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System and method for enhanced video selection and categorization using metadata
Inventor: Haberman | Patent Number: 8132204
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Intra-video ratings
Inventor: Karam | Patent Number: 8132200
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Method and apparatus for transmitting and downloading setup information
Inventor: Yuen, et al. | Patent Number: 8122471
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Image processing device
Inventor: Miyauchi, et al. | Patent Number: 8115867
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Channel changes between services with differing bandwidth in a switched digital video system
Inventor: Versteeg, et al. | Patent Number: 8099756
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System and method for distribution of picture objects
Inventor: Ritter, et al. | Patent Number: 8099748
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Network-based service to provide on-demand video summaries of television programs
Inventor: Bhagavath, et al. | Patent Number: 8087049
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Broadcast receiving device
Inventor: Inui | Patent Number: 8069458
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Methods and apparatus to determine audience viewing of recorded programs
Inventor: Wright, et al. | Patent Number: 8065697
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Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in the digital broadcasting system
Inventor: Kim, et al. | Patent Number: 8059210
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System and method for providing access to data using customer profiles
Inventor: Herz, et al. | Patent Number: 8056100
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Method for delivering non-anonymous user metadata using an soap operation in TV anytime metadata service
Inventor: Lee, et al. | Patent Number: 8051457
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Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system
Inventor: Song, et al. | Patent Number: 8051451
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Targeted television advertisements selected on the basis of an online user profile and presented with television programs or channels related to that profile
Inventor: Shkedi | Patent Number: 8051444
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Digital broadcast receiver and upgrading method thereof
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 8046816
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Systems, methods, and computer products for recording of repeated programs
Inventor: Weaver | Patent Number: 8037499
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System for receiving transport streams
Inventor: Lewis, et al. | Patent Number: 8032910
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System and method for providing media to media playback device
Inventor: Shusterman | Patent Number: 8028320
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Interactive program guide with preferred items list apparatus and method
Inventor: Nishikawa, et al. | Patent Number: 8024755
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Channel control system for exiting from an interactive program guide
Inventor: Jerding, et al. | Patent Number: 8020184
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Broadcast signal processing apparatus and control method thereof
Inventor: Lee | Patent Number: 8015579
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Method and system for resource management in a video on-demand server
Inventor: McKinley, et al. | Patent Number: 8010985
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Broadcast receiving apparatus and pay program providing system
Inventor: Hogyoku | Patent Number: 8010977
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Distributive system for marking and blocking video and audio content related to video and audio programs
Inventor: Damm | Patent Number: 8006279
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Method and apparatus of displaying bit stream data, method and apparatus for generating bit stream data, and storage medium
Inventor: Kambayashi, et al. | Patent Number: 8006272
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Graphic user interfaces for purchasable and recordable media (PRM) downloads
Inventor: Rodriguez, et al. | Patent Number: 8006262
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Pausing one or more ads, one or more ad groups, and/or one or more ad campaigns
Inventor: Kamangar | Patent Number: 7996874
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System and user interface for a television receiver in a television program distribution system
Inventor: Comer, et al. | Patent Number: 7995896
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Receiver and receiving method and program
Inventor: Kanda | Patent Number: 7992185
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Location detector for digital television appliances
Inventor: Pedlow, Jr., et al. | Patent Number: 7992162
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Interactive set-top box having a unified memory architecture
Inventor: Auld, et al. | Patent Number: 7986326
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Digital broadcast receiving apparatus
Inventor: Inui | Patent Number: 7984464
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Advertising methods for advertising time slots and embedded objects
Inventor: Huber, et al. | Patent Number: 7979877
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Presence detection in a bandwidth management system
Inventor: Bedingfield, Sr. | Patent Number: 7975283
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System, method, computer program product, and apparatus for automatically ensuring consistency between program and system information protocol tables and program specific information tables in a digital television stream
Inventor: Grenier, et al. | Patent Number: 7971220
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Hardware module for adding functionality to television
Inventor: Boyden, et al. | Patent Number: 7966637
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Electronic component allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals
Inventor: Busson, et al. | Patent Number: 7962949
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Video picture information delivering apparatus and receiving apparatus
Inventor: Nakagawa, et al. | Patent Number: 7962943
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Specialized media presentation via an electronic program guide (EPG)
Inventor: Barrett | Patent Number: 7962938
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Television receiver, mobile apparatus, and network information communication system with notification of decode error by turning on decode flag of TCP/IP header
Inventor: Fukuda, et al. | Patent Number: 7958530
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Time-based graphical user interface for multimedia content
Inventor: Stark, et al. | Patent Number: 7941819
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Advertising content tracking for an entertainment device
Inventor: Clark, et al. | Patent Number: 7937724
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Method and system for offering interactive controls in a lodging entertainment system
Inventor: Hernes | Patent Number: 7930721
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Method and system for forming a countdown clock channel output
Inventor: Jacobs | Patent Number: 7926081
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Method and apparatus for automatically extracting data identifying a broadcast A/V program
Inventor: Eigeldinger | Patent Number: 7917925
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Apparatus and method for interfacing between set-top box and point of deployment for pay-per-view service
Inventor: Shin | Patent Number: 7913285
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Method and device for updating reception rights in a multiple operator system
Inventor: Sasselli, et al. | Patent Number: 7913272
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System and method to provide a unified video signal for diverse receiving platforms
Inventor: Ansari, et al. | Patent Number: 7908627
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Maintaining a graphical user interface state that is based on a selected piece of content
Inventor: Stark, et al. | Patent Number: 7900228
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Emergency alert message data structure, emergency alert message signaling method, and cable broadcasting system
Inventor: Yun | Patent Number: 7895618
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Method and system of video on demand dating
Inventor: Glashow, et al. | Patent Number: 7890984
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Method and apparatus for javaTV xlets for analog broadcast channels
Inventor: Foote, et al. | Patent Number: 7873979
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Display apparatus, user terminal, distribution apparatus, control method thereof, computer program and storage medium
Inventor: Tsukamoto | Patent Number: 7865918
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Apparatus and method for operating a multi-unit storage facility
Inventor: Machinist, et al. | Patent Number: 7856643
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Remote antenna and local receiver subsystems for receiving data signals carried over analog television
Inventor: Endres, et al. | Patent Number: 7853978
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Broadcast signal and apparatus and method of decoding the same
Inventor: Chung | Patent Number: 7853973
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Method and apparatus providing scalability for channel change requests in a switched digital video system
Inventor: Akhter | Patent Number: 7849490
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Networked subscriber television distribution
Inventor: Russ, et al. | Patent Number: 7849486
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Real time channel grouping method and the apparatus thereof
Inventor: Noh | Patent Number: 7844988
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Interactive media guidance system having multiple devices
Inventor: Walker, et al. | Patent Number: 7840977
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System and method for encouraging viewers to watch television programs
Inventor: Matheny, et al. | Patent Number: 7840975
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Program selecting method
Inventor: Shikata, et al. | Patent Number: 7831987
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Web television having a two-way communication bus interconnecting a television controller and an internet module
Inventor: Gaughan, et al. | Patent Number: 7827583
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Mobile television electronic service guide delivery system
Inventor: Saarikivi, et al. | Patent Number: 7827579
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TV apparatus, its control method, network TV system and computer program
Inventor: Miyamoto, et al. | Patent Number: 7827575
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Web television having a two-way communication bus interconnecting a television controller and an internet module
Inventor: Gaughan, et al. | Patent Number: 7823181
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Content distribution method, content obtaining device and method, and program
Inventor: Tanaka, et al. | Patent Number: 7823180
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Navigation within switched digital streamed content
Inventor: Pedlow, Jr., et al. | Patent Number: 7814525
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Providing and receiving on-demand assets using a pool of assets containing unavailable assets
Inventor: Rao, et al. | Patent Number: 7814519
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Receiving apparatus, receiving method, storage medium, and program
Inventor: Kondo | Patent Number: 7814509
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Apparatus and method for combining realtime and non-realtime encoded content
Inventor: Gordon, et al. | Patent Number: 7810116
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Advertisement filtering and storage for targeted advertisement systems
Inventor: Flickinger, et al. | Patent Number: 7810114
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Program guide application interface system
Inventor: Ellis, et al. | Patent Number: 7805742
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Advanced trick mode
Inventor: Gopalakrishnan, et al. | Patent Number: 7797720
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Apparatus and method for interactive digital media content requests
Inventor: Drakoulis, et al. | Patent Number: 7797719
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Graphical user interface for a device having multiple input and output nodes
Inventor: Iwamura | Patent Number: 7797711
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Electronic component allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals
Inventor: Busson, et al. | Patent Number: 7796197
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Digital cinema system hub for multiple exhibitor distribution
Inventor: Powell, et al. | Patent Number: 7793323
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Method and apparatus for distributing assignments
Inventor: Moses, et al. | Patent Number: 7788199
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Wireless communication system and method using a wireless channel
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 7779443
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Program guide environment
Inventor: Sie, et al. | Patent Number: 7779439
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System for managing, converting, and transmitting video content for uploading online to a digital TV services provider system
Inventor: Perez | Patent Number: 7774819
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Technique for effectively utilizing limited bandwidth of a communications network to deliver programming content
Inventor: Helms, et al. | Patent Number: 7774818
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Context-sensitive interactive television ticker
Inventor: Allen | Patent Number: 7774815
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Apparatus and method for checking for broadcasting schedule overlap in broadcasting system
Inventor: Chun | Patent Number: 7774813
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Media playing
Inventor: Slater, et al. | Patent Number: 7770199
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Method for delivering cable channels to handheld devices
Inventor: Sibley, et al. | Patent Number: 7757267
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System for controlling display and operation of simultaneous transmissions of at least two media
Inventor: Muench-Casanova, et al. | Patent Number: 7757258
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Interactive entertainment system for presenting supplemental interactive content together with continuous video programs
Inventor: Shoff, et al. | Patent Number: 7757254
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Program guide browser
Inventor: Kiiskinen | Patent Number: 7748017
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Network-based service to provide on-demand video summaries of television programs
Inventor: Bhagavath, et al. | Patent Number: 7743399
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Manage content in a short-term content buffer with content identifiers
Inventor: Thiagarajan, et al. | Patent Number: 7725919
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Method for delivering non-anonymous user metadata using an soap operation in TV anytime metadata service
Inventor: Lee, et al. | Patent Number: 7725917
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System and method for scrolling through TV video icons by category
Inventor: Read | Patent Number: 7721312