Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090049118 | MEDIA CONTENT SHARING - A media content sharing concept wherein users are able to share highlights or other portions of content with friends. The concept may be used in any number of environments where electronic media, such as but not limited to audio, video, and multi-media, is transferable between a number of users. Bookmarks or other features may be used to facilitate accessing the video clips for subsequent viewing. | 02-19-2009 |
20090064221 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHING TELEVISION CHANNELS - Method for automatically switching television channels or other content sources. The method may be used with any electronic media to facilitate switching between channels or other content sources based on events or other occurrences in non-viewed channels, such as but not limited to switching channels based on sporting event occurrences (goals, ending of game, etc.), news event occurrence (breaking news, health tips, etc.), and other any number of other identifiable events. | 03-05-2009 |
20090171711 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING TRANSACTIONS - Method and system of managing transactions. The transactions may be executed over different networks, such as but not limited to networks associated with different cable television service providers. The transactions may be monitored so that product purchases may be facilitated without requiring product vendors to support electronic communications with each of the networks. The transactions may also be monitored to tabulate metrics and other measurables reported from the different networks in such a manner that the vendors can receive a report without having to understand the reporting and tabulating means used by the different networks to measure the same metrics. | 07-02-2009 |
20100100449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADVERTISING WITHOUT ADDING TAGS TO CONTENT STREAMS - A method and system of advertising that facilitates an automated advertisement process where a user, at any point during playback, simply makes a request to view an advertisement and an advertisement related to the current point of playback is automatically provided. The advertisement can be related to a scene showing proximate in time to the request so that the user can specify what type of advertisement is provided and when it is provided. | 04-22-2010 |
20110072458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISEMENTS - Method and system of distributing advertisements for storage in a network. The stored advertisements being retrievable for insertion within or other association with services provided to a network subscriber. Identifying characteristics of the advertisement may be used to facilitate the storage thereof and identifying characteristics of the customs may be used to facilitate advertisements associated with services accessed thereby. | 03-24-2011 |
20140006529 | CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS ARCHITECTURE | 01-02-2014 |
20150142968 | Service Discovery - Service discovery and other operations related to enabling devices to announce, discover or otherwise control their services and/or the services offered or available from other devices is contemplated. The service discovery may facilitating service discovery for services sourced from devices inside and outside of a network and/or from devices having incompatible messaging capabilities. | 05-21-2015 |
20150143419 | SESSION ADMINISTRATION - Administration of sessions, such as but not necessarily user interface (UI) and media sessions, is contemplated. The session administration may include transferring and/or sharing a session from one client to another without requiring an application required to process the transferred/shared session to be operational when receiving an action used to initialize session administration. | 05-21-2015 |