| CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120008912 | TIME-SHIFT BUFFER - A method and system is disclosed for time-shifted access to media content. The time-shifted access may be facilitate with a time-shift buffer and the use of time-shift buffers to mark periods in time from which time-shifted access is to be begin according to triggering events registered at output devices being used to facilitate the time-shifted access. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005368 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATE METHOD AND SYSTEM USING RETRANSMISSION AND REPLACEMENT - An adaptive method and system for dynamically facilitating access to higher quality content in the event transport of the higher quality content requires a greater allocation of network resources when compared to transport of the same content at a lower quality. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005361 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATE FOR DATA TRANSMISSION - An adaptive bit rate system for use in transmitting data at adaptable bit rates. The bit rate may be adjusted according to historical behaviors and/or past operational settings, such as but not limited to adjusted a request bit rate to a different bit rate depending the historical behavior. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002115 | LOCATION-BASED TUNER - A method and system of facilitating tuning to content and/or signal streams, including capabilities to facilitate tuning when traveling from one geographical location to another where the different geographical areas may be rely on different identifiers to facilitate locating the content and/or signaling of interest. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002111 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF 2ND SCREEN APPLICATIONS - A method and system to synchronize a user experience between multiple output devices. The synchronization may be facilitated with communications between the multiple output devices timed relative to content, event, actions, and occurrences taking place within media being accessed by at least one of the multiple output devices. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110158406 | ZERO SIGN-ON AUTHENTICATION - A authenticating system and process for authenticating user devices to a access a media service where access to certain portions of the media service may be limited according to a gateway or other device used by a user device to facilitate interfacing a user with the media service. The authentication may be achieved without directly assessing a trustworthiness of the user devices, and optionally, without requiring a user thereof to complete a sign-on operation. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157303 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATION OF CAPTIONS OVER STEROSCOPIC 3D IMAGES - A method and system is disclosed for generating a caption relative to a three-dimensional (3D) image. The caption may be generated such that it appears relative to a screen plane of an output device used to render the 3D image. The caption may be added to left and right viewpoint images included within images used by the output device to render the 3D image as a function of the positioning of the caption relative to the screen plane. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110134938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DECOUPLING MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) AND PHYSICAL (PHY) OPERATING LAYERS - A layered operating system architecture enables decoupling of a media access control (MAC) layer from a physical (PHY) layer. The decoupled MAC and PHY layer removes responsibility from the MAC layer with respect to understanding network resources, network space and network scheduling and allocation demands when processing data for transport over a network. The MAC layer may instead operate according to an allocation scheduled provided by a convergence layer responsible for understanding the varying conditions and demand attendant to supporting communications over the network. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134936 | MULTI-TIER POLLING - A polling arrangement where polling frequency and/or rates may be adjusted according to activities of end stations or other elements being polled. The ability to adjust the polling activities may be used to facilitate reducing or otherwise controlling network resources allocated to the supporting the polling or other messaging depending operations. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134935 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OPERABLE TO FACILITATE SIGNAL TRANSPORT OVER A NETWORK - A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110072458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISEMENTS - Method and system of distributing advertisements for storage in a network. The stored advertisements being retrievable for insertion within or other association with services provided to a network subscriber. Identifying characteristics of the advertisement may be used to facilitate the storage thereof and identifying characteristics of the customs may be used to facilitate advertisements associated with services accessed thereby. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110044318 | Interoperability of Legacy Alarm System - A base station and system configured to support interfacing digital and analog devices with a legacy alarm system in a manner that allows messages from the legacy alarm system to pre-empt other messaging, if needed, when the messaging takes place through the same gateway as that which is used by the legacy alarm system. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110012990 | ADAPTIVE HDMI FORMATTING SYSTEM FOR 3D VIDEO TRANSMISSION - A system configured to support video formatting without a priori knowledge of video formatting requirements of a display device. The system relies on video information transmitted from the display device to a source device to facilitate determining the video formatting requirements of the display device. The system can be used within any television network, gaming network, and content sourcing network where it may be advantageous to deploy a source device that can support formatting requirements for a plurality of different display types. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110002229 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF END-TO-END NETWORK LOSS DURING A PHONE CALL - A method and system of managing end-to-end loss in a manner that allows phone calls to be executed across many networks at desirable end-to-end loss levels, including networks having fixed-loss stratagems, by controlling devices to adjust their local loss or gain in order to establish target end-to-end loss. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100329644 | AUTOMATED PROGRAMMING RECORDING - A method and system of providing access to television programs without requiring a user to operate an electronic programming guide or to independently determining information required to access the television program. Optionally, access to the television program may be facilitated by scheduling a recording of the televisions program or providing instructions to facilitate accessing an on-demand showing of the television program. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100150527 | SEGMENT BOUNDARY OBFUSCATION - A method and system for obfuscating segment boundary markers, such as but not limited to obfuscating boundary markers used to identify beginning and/or ending boundaries of a sequence of segments forming a programming event. The obfuscation may be achieved by embedding decoy and offset boundary markers within the sequence of segments. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100104257 | AUTOMATED RUN-TIME ADJUSTMENT - A method and system for automated run-time adjustment that includes an ability to start or end a scheduled recording at an earlier or later period of time. The adjustment may allow a program to be recorded in its entirety regardless of whether the program is starting late or running long. The recording period adjustments performed in accordance with the contemplated run-time adjustment may be made with reliance on data transmitted with the program in order to optionally insure the adjustment are made with respect to the actual content and not some pre-determined or arbitrary recording extension inputted by a user. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100100449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADVERTISING WITHOUT ADDING TAGS TO CONTENT STREAMS - A method and system of advertising that facilitates an automated advertisement process where a user, at any point during playback, simply makes a request to view an advertisement and an advertisement related to the current point of playback is automatically provided. The advertisement can be related to a scene showing proximate in time to the request so that the user can specify what type of advertisement is provided and when it is provided. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100070639 | Network Clone Detection - Each client device among a group of client devices whose access to a network is controlled by the same Network Access Control server will have a unique physical address. However, the same physical address may exist among a group of client devices controlled by different Network Access Control server. To detect and block clone devices from obtaining service, each Network Access Control server will have its own identifier and this identifier is one of the authorization parameters used by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocols server for determining whether the request for an IP address is from an authorized client device. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100023783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DECRYPTING ENCRYPTED CONTENT - System and method of decrypting content. The content may be decrypted with decryption keys stored on a secured dongle. The dongle may be connect to a computer and used to decrypt the content for the computer, limiting the decryption-based processing demands on the computer. The computer may output the decrypted content to an output device for access by a user. The dongle may be single-use device pre-configured with a number of unchangeable keys and security measures. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100022244 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SUPPORTING CONTINUOUS ACCESS TO CONTENT TRANSMITTED OVER TWO OR MORE NETWORKS - A system and method of supporting access to content over first and second networks that allows a user to access content over different networks, either on the same device or with different devices. The access may be supported in a continuous or seamless matter without substantially interrupting access to the content, such as by instigating the transition during a period of time when minimal, if any content, or content of value, is likely to be missed. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20090165035 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DEVICE LEVEL PROGRAM INSERTION - Method and system of inserting commercials or program within content feeds. The commercials may be inserted in an optimized manner on a host device so as to permit device level commercial insertion. Instructions or other information may be pre-loaded for a number of insertion opportunities so that processing demands on the host device at the time of insertion can be limited. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161752 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SWITCH BROADCAST TELEVISION - A method and system of providing switched broadcasting of content to a number of consumers. The content may be transmitted in pieces over broadcast and switched transmission tiers. The broadcast tier being characterized by the continuous transmission of content and the switched tier being characterized by on demand or request based transmission of content. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090154562 | METHOD OF CODING AND TRANSMISSION OF PROGRESSIVE VIDEO USING DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL OVERLAY - A method of coding and transmission of a 1080 | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090119728 | TUNING RESOLVER - A method and system for supporting media services on devices lacking capabilities to execute reverse transmission communicates necessary to request and/or locate the services. The method and system may be suitable for use with switched broadcast television (SBT) system having unidirectional digital cable products (UDCPs) which are unable to execute reverse transmission communicates necessary to support SBT. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090064221 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHING TELEVISION CHANNELS - Method for automatically switching television channels or other content sources. The method may be used with any electronic media to facilitate switching between channels or other content sources based on events or other occurrences in non-viewed channels, such as but not limited to switching channels based on sporting event occurrences (goals, ending of game, etc.), news event occurrence (breaking news, health tips, etc.), and other any number of other identifiable events. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090049118 | MEDIA CONTENT SHARING - A media content sharing concept wherein users are able to share highlights or other portions of content with friends. The concept may be used in any number of environments where electronic media, such as but not limited to audio, video, and multi-media, is transferable between a number of users. Bookmarks or other features may be used to facilitate accessing the video clips for subsequent viewing. | 02-19-2009 |
