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| 20080244676 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO ENHANCE BROADCAST ENTERTAINMENT - The present embodiments provide methods and systems to access additional, enhanced and/or interactive content associated with a broadcast program received over a closed broadcast network. Some embodiments provide methods of enhancing broadcast content by receiving broadcast content from a broadcast content source over a closed network, receiving a request to tune in a broadcast program, tuning in the broadcast program from the broadcast content, extracting a program identification of the broadcast program from the broadcast content, and communicating the program identification to a remote network access device to allow access over a network to additional content associated with the broadcast program. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080278635 | Applications for remote control devices with added functionalities - A handheld wireless device for controlling an electronic device. Ambient noise is automatically detected using a microphone and user preference parameters (e.g., volume) are adjusted, compensating for the detected noise. Plurality of signals are sent and received, operable to determine the location of the remote control, thereby operable to automatically tune various user preference parameters (e.g., surround sound). The remote control may be used as a telephone. When receiving a call, the caller information may be displayed using a popup window (e.g., on a television set). A call may be answered and the program may be paused/recorded/muted. The electronic device is automatically configured by identifying the user. A reader may read information on a payment card in a contactless manner. In one embodiment a radio frequency signal is used to reduce interference with LCD wavelength. The remote control may respond to a user command in order to be located. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090138903 | TV REMOTE CONTROL SIGNAL LOG - An interceptor detects command signals from a TV remote control and logs the signals. The signals can be correlated not just to channel number but also to programs by accessing a program/channel database. A log of channels/programs that have been viewed by, e.g., a child can thus be obtained and viewed by a parent. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090187463 | Personalized Location-Based Advertisements - Advertising content is selected and provided to a mobile device user based on user location information in combination with user profile information. In one embodiment, user location information and user profile information is provided to an advertisement server over a network connection. An advertisement database lookup operation may then be performed based on current location information for the mobile device, in combination with the aforementioned profile information. The result of this lookup operation is to identify the available advertisements that are most likely to be of interest to the user at the current time. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN PROVIDING INFORMATION TO ACCESSING CONTENT - The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in identifying one or more sources of content by receiving a request to supply a listing of registered content providers; identifying a first registered content identifier (ID); evaluating a first metadata directly associated with the first registered content ID, and identifying multiple registered content providers; identifying, for each identified content providers, a cost to access the first content, and a link to access the corresponding content provider; generating a listing of content providers comprising a list of each of the identified content providers and their corresponding costs and links; and communicating over the distributed network the listing of content providers. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187862 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE INTUITIVE BROWSING OF CONTENT - A method and apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises: associating a 3D object having first, second and third faces, with a theme; populating the first face with a first icon that represents the theme; populating the second face with a second icon, the second icon representing a first attribute of the theme; populating the third face with a third icon, the third icon representing a second attribute of the theme; generating a first perspective view of a three dimensional object, the first perspective view having the first and second faces but not the third face; displaying the first perspective view on a portion of a display; receiving a command; generating a second perspective view of the three dimensional object, the second perspective view having the third face; removing the first perspective view from the display; and displaying the second perspective view on the portion of the display. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100211843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA OVER LOSSY NETWORKS - An encoder/decoder system usable to decrease the probability of a failed transmission over a lossy wireless network. In one embodiment, data packets unsuccessfully sent over the wireless network may be retransmitted a particular number of times, depending on how important the data in the lost packet is. In another embodiment, when a number of transmission failures is determined to exceed a predetermined threshold, it may be signaled that multiple reference frames should be used for encoding predictions. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110109812 | TV REMOTE CONTROL SIGNAL LOG - An interceptor detects command signals from a TV remote control and logs the signals. The signals can be correlated not just to channel number but also to programs by accessing a program/channel database. A log of channels/programs that have been viewed by, e.g., a child can thus be obtained and viewed by a parent. | 05-12-2011 |
