Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110307934 | CONTENT LIST TAILORING FOR CAPABILITY OF IPTV DEVICE - An Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) manufacturer and/or IPTV device user may configure and upload the profile of the IPTV into an IPTV server. The IPTV server filters the playable contents delivered to the IPTV as necessary to match downloaded playlists and links with the IPTV profile. | 12-15-2011 |
20110321094 | IPTV EPG LINKING BROADCAST CHANNELS TO INTERNET SOURCES OF SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING - An EPG presented on an IPTV lists broadcast TV programming but when an entry on the EPG is selected, an Internet server, and not the TV broadcast source, is accessed and streams the listed programming to the IPTV. | 12-29-2011 |
20120159549 | SONY EPG AND METADATA SOLUTION WITH MULTIPLE SERVICE SOURCES - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for combining electronic program guide data and metadata input from multiple service providers to a common gateway server that connects to consumer electronics devices. A unified interface enables users of a wide variety of consumer electronics devices to easily manage broadcast contents and network services, typically in real-time. In addition to traditional TV EPG applications such as on-screen menus and program descriptions, channel/program searching, and timer and DVR functions, the embodiments provide enhanced metadata features through an Internet connection, including media explorers, streaming content, recommendations and customized advertisements and related searches, and social networking applications. The server manages metadata format translation, and merges content to transparently switch between content providers. | 06-21-2012 |
20120198508 | MULTIPLE DEVICE IPTV CLOUD-BASED RECORDING AND PLAYBACK - A cloud-based internet protocol television (IPTV) system is described here. In this invention, the cloud acts as a personal video recorder for recording and playback of audio, video, and other content. Communications to and from the cloud are transmitted over IPTV. An allowance for resolution and refresh rate conversion allows for high bandwidth content to be converted into lower bandwidth content. In this way, content stored from a high definition television may be converted to a content stream playable by a smart phone of limited capabilities. By using the cloud as storage, local devices may play only the IPTV streams, without the substantial storage capacities required for high definition video. IPTV-based menus are used to select media for recording and playback. | 08-02-2012 |
20120240161 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) CONTROL BY INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION (IPTV) REMOTE INTERNET ACCESS DEVICES - An Internet protocol television (IPTV) system is driven by a graphical user interface (GUI) controlled by an input device attached to an Internet access device that in turn connects to the GUI over IPTV connections. The input device may be a keyboard, smart phone, iPad, mouse, personal computer, laptop, touch screen, or other generic universal serial bus (USB), IEEE 1394 (FireWire), or other connected device. Connection between the input device and the GUI may be either wired (including, but not limited to USB, IEEE 1394, and Ethernet) or wireless (including, without limitation, infrared (IR), radio frequency, or other form of electromagnetic transmission). Regardless of connection method, the input device acts to operate and command the IPTV GUI so as to navigate and control the IPTV. By appropriate GUI implementations, a single input device may be configured to operate one or more windows on one or more display via IPTV connections. | 09-20-2012 |
20130219006 | MULTIPLE MEDIA DEVICES THROUGH A GATEWAY SERVER OR SERVICES TO ACCESS CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE STORAGE - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling client devices to transparently access cloud computing services, service storage, and related data via a gateway server that connects to an external network such as the internet or a social network. Data requests are transmitted from at least one client device to the gateway server. The gateway server determines if the data request cannot be satisfied by data stored in its memory, and responsively transmits a second data request to the external network and stores data received in response to the second data request in its memory. The gateway server then satisfies the data request using the stored data, which may include a web computing service, an application program interface, streaming data, metadata, and/or media data. | 08-22-2013 |
20140022461 | INTERNET TV MODULE FOR ENABLING PRESENTATION AND NAVIGATION OF NON-NATIVE USER INTERFACE ON TV HAVING NATIVE USER INTERFACE USING EITHER TV REMOTE CONTROL OR MODULE REMOTE CONTROL - A display device receive icon or application information from an audio visual application module (AVAM) and presents, on the native UI of the display, a selectable AVAM icon according to the information from the AVAM. The AVAM icon is associated with an application on the AVAM. Display input is automatically switched to the AVAM responsive to selection of the icon from the native UI using the display RC, at which point a non-native UI received from AVAM is presented for navigation using the display RC. Input commands are relayed to the AVAM. | 01-23-2014 |
20140059628 | Internet TV Module for Enabling Presentation and Navigation of Non-Native User Interface on TV Having Native User Interface Using Either TV Remote Control or Module Remote Control - A display device such as a TV has both HDMI and IP network interfaces and uses the HDMI interface to exchange IP network parameters with an audio video application module (AVAM) upon HDMI connection. In this way, an IP-based peer-to-peer or client-server network connection can be automatically established to promote faster communication when sharing and executing applications between the devices than is typically available over the CEC link of HDMI. | 02-27-2014 |
20140075319 | ESTABLISHING CLOUD SERVER IN CLIENT DEVICE - Client devices of, e.g., social networking friends can elect to form their own local cloud network for sourcing Internet cloud services to each other. One or more client devices may be configured as a cloud server, downloading from the Internet cloud services it requires or other devices in the local cloud require, to source the services locally. A user may be given the option of trying to access cloud services first through the Internet, and then through the local cloud if the Internet is unavailable, to ensure the most updated service is available, or trying to access cloud services first through the local cloud and then through the Internet if the service is not available locally. | 03-13-2014 |
20140101573 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE - A computer implemented method for presenting a user-interface on a device, the method includes the steps of loading an user interface on the device, the user interface having at least one media element, reading a media element including a plurality of object elements, selecting at least one object element within the media element based on a platform information of the device, and presenting a media content of the media element using a parameter set in the at least one object element. | 04-10-2014 |
20140310599 | AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY AND MIRRORING OF SERVER-CLIENT REMOTE USER INTERFACE (RUI) SESSION ON A COMPANION DEVICE AND SYNCHRONOUSLY CONTROLLING BOTH SESSIONS USING RUI ON COMPANION DEVICE - A server sends to a video device such as a TV a remote user interface (RUI) that is presented on the TV and manipulable to send control commands back to the server. A companion device such as a tablet computer discovers the RUI session and is provided by the server with its own RUI, which mirrors that on the TV, modified as appropriate for the screen of the companion device. The server maintains the two RUIs synchronized such that the RUI on the companion mirrors the RUI on the TV. | 10-16-2014 |
20150088957 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS IN MULTIPLE DEVICES - A device and methods are provided for monitoring and updating a network application across devices by an application state manager. In one embodiment, a method includes launching an application state manager by a first device, wherein the application state manager is associated with a network application executed by the his device and identifying, by the first device, one or more devices executing an application state manager associated with the network application, wherein a second device is identified by the first device. The method may further include exchanging, by the first device, data of the application state manager of the first device with data of an application state manager of a second device. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089338 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A NETWORK APPLICATION PROXY AGENT - A system and methods are provided for a network application proxy agent. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a web page presented by a device, wherein the web page is detected by a network application proxy agent executed by the device, detecting one or more elements of the web page presented by the device, and accessing a configuration table to determine one or more proxy links for one or more detected elements of the web page presented by the device. The method may further include directing, by the network application proxy agent, presentation of the web page by the device based on one or more proxy links associated with the configuration table. | 03-26-2015 |