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| 20090217356 | Electronic permission slips for controlling access to multimedia content - An administrator controls viewer access to restricted multimedia programs using electronic permission slips. In response to a viewer's request to view a restricted multimedia program, the viewer may initiate the generation of an electronic permission slip that is sent to an electronic device associated with the administrator. The electronic permission slip may include text-based information, graphical information, audio information, and the like. The electronic permission slip may enable input of permission data regarding whether the viewer is allowed to receive the blocked program. In response to the administrator granting permission, a service provider network allows the viewer to access the restricted multimedia program. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090300671 | Controlling Access to Multimedia Content - A disclosed access control application and an associated method for managing access to multimedia content include enabling an administrator, e.g., a parent, to create a user account for a user, e.g., a child, and a password and a profile for the user account. The method further includes assigning an access level to the user and generating an initial set of content access indicator (CAIs) based on the access level. The initial CAI influences or determines the user's ability to access content associated with the access level. The method further includes modifying at least one of the CAIs in response to a request from the administrator. When a user subsequently send a navigation signal or command while the user account is active, the navigation signal is processed based at least in part on the CAIs to prevent the user from accessing content that the applicable CAI indicates as being restricted. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100223660 | PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITH TIME LIMIT RESTRICTIONS - Users are provided limited access to multimedia programs. An administrator may require users to log in to begin a multimedia distribution session (e.g., a television program viewing session). The administrator may designate that certain users may access multimedia content only for an allotted amount of time during an approved viewing period. The administrator may also designate that a maximum amount of rollover time is carried to a future tracking period if an allotted amount of viewing time is not fully used for any tracking period. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223673 | PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITH ACCESS RESTRICTIONS - Users are provided limited access to multimedia programs. An administrator may require users to log in to begin a multimedia distribution session. Further, administrators may permit certain users to access selected multimedia programs only for a limited number of views. In addition, an administrator may designate that users have a limited amount of time or a limited period to exercise the limited number of views of the multimedia programs. For example, an administrator may designate that a user can access a multimedia program for a single view, that the user may take three hours to exercise the single view, and that the single view must take place within next three days. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100333127 | Shared Multimedia Experience Including User Input - Systems provide shared multimedia content to a plurality of members of a collaboration group, request input related to the multimedia content from a portion of the plurality of members, modify the shared multimedia content to include an indication of a portion of the input, and provide the modified shared multimedia content to the plurality of members. The shared multimedia content may include a television program, a movie, or a real-time event. The requested input may include a prediction or a trivia answer related to the shared multimedia content. | 12-30-2010 |
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| 20080209045 | Capture and Resumption of Network Application Sessions - A system and method for capture and resumption of network application sessions in a network system. A transaction may be detected between a client and server that includes application session state information. The session state information may relate to a session between the client and the server. The Application session state information may be recorded in response to the detection of the transaction, and the application session state information may not be deleted according to session information expiration policies (e.g., of the client). User input may be received which requests to review the captured network application session. Correspondingly, a network request comprising captured credentials of the captured session may be generated and forwarded to the server. The network request may be usable to enable resumption of the captured network application session. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080222717 | Detecting Anomalous Network Application Behavior - System and Method for detecting anomalous network application behavior. Network traffic between at least one client and one or more servers may be monitored. The client and the one or more servers may communicate using one or more application protocols. The network traffic may be analyzed at the application-protocol level to determine anomalous network application behavior. Analyzing the network traffic may include determining, for one or more communications involving the client, if the client has previously stored or received an identifier corresponding to the one or more communications. If no such identifier has been observed in a previous communication, then the one or more communications involving the client may be determined to be anomalous. A network monitoring device may perform one or more of the network monitoring, the information extraction, or the information analysis. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090141634 | Adaptive Network Traffic Classification Using Historical Context - Adaptive network traffic classification using historical context. Network traffic may be monitored and classified by considering several attributes using packet filters, regular expressions, context-free grammars, rule sets, and/or protocol dissectors, among other means and by applying a variety of techniques such as signature matching and statistical analysis. Unlike static systems, the classification decisions may be reexamined from time to time or after subsequent processing determines that the traffic does not conform to the protocol specification corresponding to the classification decision. Historical context may be used to adjust the classification strategy for similar or related traffic. | 06-04-2009 |
