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20090034935 | Methods and Apparatus for Client Aggregation of Television Programming in a Networked Personal Video Recording System - A networked personal video recording (“PVR”) system couples a plurality of clients to one or more PVR media servers over a network. One or more PVR media servers include television tuners to tune television signals. A storage medium buffers the television signals to implement PVR functionality. For example, the PVR media server records television programs for clients. Clients are assigned to television tuners, and the clients display television programs received at the assigned tuner. The network transfers the buffered television signals to the clients. | 02-05-2009 |
20090307658 | Methods and apparatus for rendering user interfaces and display information on remote client devices - A user interface is implemented on a client device remote from a host device. The host device operates an application program that implements a user interface, such as an electronic programming guide or a guide for a personal video recorder, that permits a user to control at least one target device. The host device transfers to the client device an identification of at least one scene. In general, a scene defines an abstract layout for at least one screen display of the user interface. The client device generates at least one screen display for the scene based on its interpretation of the scene. The client device then displays the screen as an implementation of the user interface. Thereafter, a user initiates, using the client device, an operation to control the target device. In response, the target device performs the operation. The host device may also display information at a client device. For example, the host device may transmit information about a media currently playing at the client device. | 12-10-2009 |
20100074600 | NETWORKED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM - A networked personal video recording (“PVR”) system couples a plurality of clients to one or more PVR media servers over a network. One or more PVR media servers include television tuners to tune television signals. A storage medium buffers the television signals to implement PVR functionality. For example, the PVR media server records television programs for clients. Clients are assigned to television tuners, and the clients display television programs received at the assigned tuner. The network transfers the buffered television signals to the clients. | 03-25-2010 |
20100277317 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS IN A MEDIA SYSTEM - A system to convey user alert messages is disclosed. The system may have a alert service coupled between alert providers and a number of households. After receiving in the alert service an alert message from an alert provider, the alert service may alter the alert message to identify the household designated to receive the alert message. The alert service sends a notification to a home media system within the household designated to receive the alert message. | 11-04-2010 |
20110126240 | APPLICATIONS REGISTRY FOR A TELEVISION ENVIRONMENT - An applications registry provides a repository of television-based applications. The registry stores information about television-based applications registered, and allows users to view information regarding the registered television-based applications through one or more portals. The information includes a general description of the television-based applications, a description of an entitlement model for the television-based applications, and downloading information to permit a user to download the application to the home media system. The user accesses the registry, to view information about the television-based application, through a home media system. The home media system, which includes a television, accesses the portal over a network, such as the Internet. | 05-26-2011 |
20120110139 | APPLICATIONS REGISTRY FOR A TELEVISION ENVIRONMENT - An applications registry provides a repository of television-based applications. The registry stores information about television-based applications registered, and allows users to view information regarding the registered television-based applications through one or more portals. The information includes a general description of the television-based applications, a description of an entitlement model for the television-based applications, and downloading information to permit a user to download the application to the home media system. The user accesses the registry, to view information about the television-based application, through a home media system. The home media system, which includes a television, accesses the portal over a network, such as the Internet. | 05-03-2012 |
20120131218 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING DISPARATE MEDIA FORMATS IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SYSTEM - A media system includes at least a source media device and a playback media device coupled through a network. The source media device presents media to the network. The media comprises at least one digital content file with a first format. A transcoder, also coupled to the network, converts the first file format of the digital content file to a second format. The playback device receives the digital content file, formatted in the second format, over the network, and processes the digital content file in the second format to generate processed signals. The processed signals drive the playback device to play the digital content file. In another embodiment, the transcoder operates in conjunction with one or more media servers. For this embodiment, media, stored on the media, stored on the media servers, is converted to one or more different file formats. | 05-24-2012 |
20120169934 | WINDOWS MANAGEMENT IN A TELEVISION ENVIRONMENT - Media content is received in a windows management application. The media content is from a set of content including zero or more television signal content and zero or more application content. The media content is incorporated into a television signal containing a window configuration. The television signal is then sent from the windows management application to a television where it is displayed. | 07-05-2012 |
20130007207 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING OBJECTS FROM A PLURALITY OF NETWORK LOCATIONS - A system and method for retrieving objects from a plurality of network locations is disclosed. A first object may be stored at a first network location and a second object may be stored at a second network location. The first and second objects may be grouped as a bundle. A user device may transmit a request to retrieve the bundle and a central management server may retrieve the first and second objects of the bundle from the first and second network locations. The central management server may determine an address location on a wide area network for each of first and second objects and then retrieve the first and second objects from the first and second network locations from the determined address locations. The objects may then be transmitted to the user device. | 01-03-2013 |
20140077948 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS IN A MEDIA SYSTEM - A system to convey user alert messages is disclosed. The system may have a alert service coupled between alert providers and a number of households. After receiving in the alert service an alert message from an alert provider, the alert service may alter the alert message to identify the household designated to receive the alert message. The alert service sends a notification to a home media system within the household designated to receive the alert message. | 03-20-2014 |
20140201636 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING USER INTERFACES AND DISPLAY INFORMATION ON REMOTE CLIENT DEVICES - A user interface is implemented on a client device remote from a host device. The host device operates an application program that implements a user interface, such as an electronic programming guide or a guide for a personal video recorder, that permits a user to control at least one target device. The host device transfers to the client device an identification of at least one scene. In general, a scene defines an abstract layout for at least one screen display of the user interface. The client device generates at least one screen display for the scene based on its interpretation of the scene. The client device then displays the screen as an implementation of the user interface. Thereafter, a user initiates, using the client device, an operation to control the target device. In response, the target device performs the operation. The host device may also display information at a client device For example, the host device may transmit information about a media currently playing at the client device. | 07-17-2014 |
20140219631 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLIENT AGGREGATION OF TELEVISION PROGRAMMING IN A NETWORKED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM - A networked personal video recording (“PVR”) system couples a plurality of clients to one or more PVR media servers over a network. One or more PVR media servers include television tuners to tune television signals. A storage medium buffers the television signals to implement PVR functionality. For example, the PVR media server records television programs for clients. Clients are assigned to television tuners, and the clients display television programs received at the assigned tuner. The network transfers the buffered television signals to the clients. | 08-07-2014 |
20140300465 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS IN A MEDIA SYSTEM - A system to convey user alert messages is disclosed. The system may have a alert service coupled between alert providers and a number of households. After receiving in the alert service an alert message from an alert provider, the alert service may alter the alert message to identify the household designated to receive the alert message. The alert service sends a notification to a home media system within the household designated to receive the alert message. | 10-09-2014 |
20150156555 | WINDOWS MANAGEMENT IN A TELEVISION ENVIRONMENT - Media content is received in a windows management application. The media content is from a set of content including zero or more television signal content and zero or more application content. The media content is incorporated into a television signal containing a window configuration. The television signal is then sent from the windows management application to a television where it is displayed. | 06-04-2015 |
20150188965 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLIENT AGGREGATION OF MEDIA IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SYSTEM - A network client aggregates media items available in a media system. The network consists of a plurality of nodes, including at least two media server nodes. A client node generates an internal request to obtain a list of media items available in the media system. In response, the client node generates a request for a list of media items from each individual media server node on the network. Each media server node sends their list of media items to the client node. The client node aggregates the lists of media items from each of the media server nodes. Thus, a list of media items available on the media system is aggregated to a requesting client node in the media system. | 07-02-2015 |
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20130086673 | TECHNIQUES FOR SECURELY UNLOCKING A TOUCH SCREEN USER DEVICE - Techniques are provided for detecting a sequence of contact or interaction instances initiated by a user on a surface of an interface unit of a user device. Each contact instance comprises one or more points of contact between the user and the surface of the interface unit, while each interaction instance comprises one or more points of activation with respect to the surface of the interface unit. The sequence of contact instances or interaction instances initiated by the user is then compared to stored information to determine whether the sequence of contact instances or interaction instances matches the stored information. If the sequence of contact instances or interaction instances matches the stored information, access is granted to the user device or to a device or system associated with the user device. | 04-04-2013 |
20130339431 | Replay of Content in Web Conferencing Environments - A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate engaging in a web conference session between computing devices over a network, where the web conference session includes audio and video content communicated from at least one computing device to at least one other computing device during the web conference session. A first computing device engages in the web conference session at a first time that is after a start time of the web conference session and while the web conference session is ongoing, and the first computing device displays a time shifted portion of the web conference session prior to the first time and while the web conference session is ongoing. | 12-19-2013 |
20150200978 | Meeting Conflict Indicator - Presented herein are techniques for obtaining, for each of a plurality of participants of an online conference session, scheduling information proximate in time to or overlapping in time with a scheduled occurrence of the conference session. Based upon the obtained scheduling information for each participant, a determination is made as to whether the participant has a scheduled activity prior to, during or after the occurrence of the conference session. One or more status indicators that indicate the availability of one or more participants of the plurality of participants relative to the occurrence of the conference session are displayed to the plurality of participants in a display window during the conference session. | 07-16-2015 |
20150332219 | MERGER AND ACQUISITION FOR ACCEPTING AND DECLINING PARTS OF A MEETING - Presented herein are techniques for receiving, from each participant of a plurality of participants of a meeting, scheduling information indicating availability of each participant for each of a plurality of meeting segments corresponding to intervals of time spanning the duration of the meeting. The received scheduling information is aggregated for the plurality of participants. One or more status indicators that indicate the availability of each participant of the plurality of participants for each meeting segment are displayed. | 11-19-2015 |
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20110060793 | Mobile Device and Method of Operating Same to Interface Content Provider Website - In a mobile device, a method of interacting with a first social networking website by way of a network includes communicating indirectly with the first social networking website by interacting with an intermediate web server by way of the network, the intermediate web server in turn being in communication with the first social networking website. The method further includes determining, based at least in part upon a user input received at the mobile device, that the mobile device should communicate directly with the first social networking website in a manner not involving the intermediate web server. The method also includes communicating with the first social networking website directly in the manner not involving the intermediate web server. In another embodiment, the method relates to interacting with a plurality of social networking sites including a first social networking website and a second social networking site. | 03-10-2011 |
20110061091 | Method and System for Intermediating Content Provider Website and Mobile Device - In one embodiment, a method of facilitating communication between a first content provider website and a mobile device includes obtaining first information from the content provider website via a first network at a web server, the first information not including any email message, where the obtaining includes pulling by way of a back end portion of the web server the first information from the content provider website. The method also includes processing in at least one of the back end portion and a front end portion of the web server the first information so as to provide processed first information, and transmitting a notice of new content in the first information from the front end portion of the web server onto a push channel established on either the first network or a second network for receipt by the mobile device. | 03-10-2011 |
20110179378 | Method Generating a Message for One or More Social Networking Websites - A mobile device includes a message entry area on a display for the user to view input text, the size based on the smallest message size permitted by the one or more destination content providers. The content from the user interface input populates the message input area. A warning is generated when the limit is reached. The message with entered content is communicated to the intermediary server with the identity of the one or more content providers for uploading by the intermediary server to the one or more content providers in the format desired by the content provider website. | 07-21-2011 |
20110231478 | System, Server, and Mobile Device for Content Provider Website Interaction and Method Therefore - An aggregate service server, configured to communicate with a user device and a plurality of different content providers. A processor configured to obtain content from the plurality of different content providers and further configured to push the obtained content to the user device. | 09-22-2011 |
20130205001 | MODIFYING APPLICATION DATA SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON APPLICATION USAGE FREQUENCY - A method and apparatus for modifying data synchronization of an application responsive to the frequency of application usage are disclosed. Data describing a frequency with which the application is used is captured by a portable computing device. For example, data describing timestamps when the application receives input or data describing a timestamp when the application was the primary application being executed are captured. It is determined whether the frequency of interaction with which the application is used equals or exceeds a threshold value. For example, the portable computing device determines whether the application has received an input or was the primary application within a predetermined time interval from the current time. Responsive to determining the frequency of interaction with the application does not equal or exceed the threshold value, data synchronization for the application is disabled. In one embodiment, the portable computing device stops data synchronization for the application. | 08-08-2013 |
20140237060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT USERNAME IN STATUS UPDATES - Embodiments provide a system and method of using a universal tagged communication for social networks. A user could insert a contact from multiple social networking sources. As the communication is transmitted, the actual text sent to each social networking service changes depending on how that service supports this tagging. A tagging component may generate new tagging formats for each associated social network. | 08-21-2014 |
20150256573 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME TO INTERFACE CONTENT PROVIDER WEBSITE - In a mobile device, a method of interacting with a first social networking website by way of a network includes communicating indirectly with the first social networking website by interacting with an intermediate web server by way of the network, the intermediate web server in turn being in communication with the first social networking website. The method further includes determining, based at least in part upon a user input received at the mobile device, that the mobile device should communicate directly with the first social networking website in a manner not involving the intermediate web server. The method also includes communicating with the first social networking website directly in the manner not involving the intermediate web server. In another embodiment, the method relates to interacting with a plurality of social networking sites including a first social networking website and a second social networking site. | 09-10-2015 |
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20080251735 | High Energy Crystal Generators And Their Applications - Ferroelectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric crystals are used to generate spatially localized high energy (up to and exceeding 100 keV) electron and ion beams, which may be used in a wide variety of applications including pulsed neutron generation, therapeutic X-ray/electron devices, elemental analysis, local scanning chemical analysis, high energy scanning microscopy, point source compact transmission electron microscopy, compact ion beam sources, positron sources, micro-thrusters for ion engines, and improved fusion efficiency especially of the Farnsworth type. The high-energy emission can be created by simply heating the material or by application of external coercive electromagnetic and acoustic fields. | 10-16-2008 |
20130259179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING NUCLEAR FUSION USING CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS - Gently heating a pyroelectric crystal in a deuterated atmosphere can generate fusion under desktop conditions. The electrostatic field of the crystal is used to generate and accelerate a deuteron beam (>100 keV and >4 nA), which, upon striking a deuterated target, produces a neutron flux over 400 times the background level. The presence of neutrons within the target is confirmed by pulse shape analysis and proton recoil spectroscopy. Several elements of the system may be modified, including the configuration of the crystal or crystals, the composition of the surrounding environment and the target, the use of multiple probe tips, and the composition of the probe tip. | 10-03-2013 |