| KALEIDESCAPE, INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120284292 | Bookmarks and Watchpoints for Selection and Presentation of Media Streams - Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281968 | Bookmarks and Watchpoints for Selection and Presentation of Media Streams - Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281967 | Bookmarks and Watchpoints for Selection and Presentation of Media Streams - Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120237078 | Watermarking and Fingerprinting Digital Content Using Alternative Blocks to Embed Information - A method of embedding information in digital content representing media streams. The method includes (1) selecting a set of locations within that digital content reprensenting the media stream to embed information, (2) selecting a set of possible alterations to make at those locations, and (3) making a subset of the possible alterations. The set of locations and possible alterations is herein sometimes called a “watermark.” The subset of actual alterations that are made is herein sometimes called a “fingerprint.” The method determines a set of locations at which there are alternative versions of digital content representing the same media stream, such as one being the original and one being an alternative version of the same digital content, herein sometimes called the “original movie” and the “alt-movie,” or herein sometimes called the “original block” and the “alt-block” for a particular block in the digital content representing the media stream. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120027380 | AUTOMATICALLY BOOKMARKING DIGITAL CONTENT - Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods relating to bookmarking digital content. In one such embodiment, a method of bookmarking digital content is described. The method involves locating digital content and obtaining navigation information associated with the digital content. From this navigation information, bookmark information is calculated. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110258644 | UTILIZING A DISC VAULT - A system is described, which includes a disc vault, which may hold a number of discs, and a media server. The media server includes a storage device, and is coupled to the disc vault. The media server is configured to determine whether a disc associated with digital content is present in the disc vault, and is further configured to receive a request for access to the digital content. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255842 | PROVIDING A UNIFORM USER EXPERIENCE - A method of providing a uniform user experience is described. The method entails receiving general preference information, and mapping the general preference information to format-specific preference information. This format-specific preference information can then be applied when accessing content. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255839 | IMPORTING BLU-RAY DISC CONTENT - A system is described, which includes an optical drive and a media server. The media server includes a storage device, and is coupled to the optical drive. The media server is configured to determine whether the optical drive contains an optical disc associated with digital content, and is further configured to receive a request for access to the digital content. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255384 | BOOKMARKING DIGITAL CONTENT ON BLU-RAY DISCS - Described herein is a method of creating a bookmark to access digital content, including content on a Blu-ray disc. The method calls for extracting title and playlist information from a playback state corresponding to a specified location within the digital content; and creating a synthetic navigation stream to initiate playback of the digital content at the specified location. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110126019 | ALTERING FUNCTIONALITY FOR CHILD-FRIENDLY CONTROL DEVICES - A method of interacting with a digital content device is described. The method includes defining a collection of digital content available via the digital content device. A specific control device is associated with the collection of digital content. A control signal is received from the control device. The digital content device allows the control device to access digital content included in the collection. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125298 | ALTERING FUNCTIONALITY FOR DIFFERENT CONTROL DEVICES - A method of interacting with a digital content device is described. The method includes associating a specific control device with specified functionality of the digital content device. A control signal is received from the control device. A state of the digital content device is altered to allow the control device to interact with the digital content device according to the specified functionality. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110100197 | SOUND SEQUENCES WITH TRANSITIONS AND PLAYLISTS - A home theater system includes construction, presentation, and commerce in, songs. Presentation includes at least one of: metadata about songs or sounds, a function capable of transitioning from one song to a next song, and user preferences; and can determine in what manner to transition from one song to a next song. Construction of songs includes either factors above, or at least one of: a function or a user extension capable of selecting a next song, and an element capable of determining whether the song is perceptually random. A user interface is capable of searching playlists and selecting them for presentation, representing each playlist with a substantially unique pictorial representation, distinguishing in presentation between those playlists licensed to the user and those that are not, and capable of substantially immediate purchase of playlist licenses either individually or in bulk and either automatically or with minimal intervention. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20100172498 | SECURE PRESENTATION OF MEDIA STREAMS IN RESPONSE TO ENCRYPTED CONTENT - Secure presentation of media streams includes encoding the media streams into digital content, encrypting a portion of that digital content, the portion being required for presentation, in which the encrypted version is substantially unchanged in formatting parameters from the clear version of the digital content. Selecting those portions for encryption so there is no change in distribution of the media stream: packetization of the digital data, or synchronization of audio with video portions of the media stream. When encoding the media stream into MPEG-2, refraining from encrypting information by which the video block data is described, packet formatting information, and encrypting the video block data using a block-substitution cipher. A block-substitution cipher can be used to encrypt each sequence of 16 bytes of video data in each packet, possibly leaving as many as 15 bytes of video data in each packet in the clear. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100146226 | Integrating Content-Laden Storage Media with Storage System - Integrating content into a storage system with substantially immediate access to that content. Providing high reliability and relatively easy operation with a storage system using redundant information for error correction. Having the storage system perform a “virtual write,” including substantially all steps associated with writing to the media to be integrated, except for the step of actually writing data to that media, including rewriting information relating to used disk blocks, and including rewriting any redundant information maintained by the storage system. Integrating the new physical media into the storage system, including accessing content already present on that media, free space already present on that media, and reading and writing that media. Recovering from errors during integration. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20090276619 | PARALLEL DISTRIBUTION AND FINGERPRINTING OF DIGITAL CONTENT - Distributing information, including the steps of watermarking the digital content, distributing the digital content using a multi-source system, and partially fingerprinting digital content at each stage of moving information from a point of origin to the viewer. “Adaptation” of the digital content to the recipient includes maintaining the digital content in encrypted form at each such intermediate device, including decrypting the digital content with a key unique to both the device and the specific movie, selecting a portion of the watermark locations into which to embed information, embedding fingerprinting information into those locations sufficient to identify the recipient, and encrypting the fingerprinted digital content with a new such key. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20080222188 | Playlists responsive to coincidence distances - A method, apparatus, and memory storing instruction that generate one or more playlists. In one aspect, a playlist is generated by calculating coincidences distances between pairs of items in a group and generating a playlist of plural of the items in the group responsive to the coincidence distances. In another aspect, two related playlists are generated, for example by using a same coincidence criteria for the playlists or by using mutual similarity criteria between the playlists. | 09-11-2008 |
