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20100037248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC PRICING OF MOBILE TV CONTENT - Methods and systems enable mobile TV broadcast service providers to allow dynamic pricing for access to broadcast programs. A server within a mobile TV broadcast network may negotiate the price for accessing a broadcast program with individual users via their mobile devices. The server may receive requests to access broadcast programs with price offers from mobile devices. The server may respond to price offers by accepting the price offer or by making a counter offer until a mutually agreeable price is identified. Alternatively, the server may implement any of a number of types of auctions for access rights to broadcast programs. Similar to negotiable dynamic pricing methods, once purchase requests for viewing access to broadcast content programs at current asking prices are accepted, the mobile TV broadcast service provider may transmit the appropriate decryption keys to the users who made accepted offers or bids. | 02-11-2010 |
20100146553 | ENHANCED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING SUPPORT FOR SERVICE DELIVERY - A service distribution system supports creation of a personalized and virtual service broadcast that can be selectively clipped and cached based on content descriptors of popularity, freshness, etc. A method for selectively receiving broadcast of one or more content items associated with a service to provide a unicast or multicast user experience is described. The method may comprise: detecting a characteristic of a service, or detecting a characteristic of one or more content items, wherein the one or more content items are associated with the service, and wherein the characteristic is generated by a mobile operator and pertains to an objective measure of current user interest, selectively receiving by broadcast, to the mobile device, one or more content items associated with the service based on the characteristic, and storing the one or more content items associated with the service for access through a user interface of the mobile device. | 06-10-2010 |
20100299702 | DELIVERY OF SELECTIVE CONTENT TO CLIENT APPLICATIONS BY MOBILE BROADCAST DEVICE WITH CONTENT FILTERING CAPABILITY - Methods and systems enable application content for use by an application running on a receiver device to be broadcast by a mobile multimedia broadcast network for energy-efficient reception and use by receiver devices. Information about application content that will be broadcast is broadcast in application metadata messages. Receiver devices may receive such application metadata messages in a broadcast receiver client which passes the information to the application. The application may inform the broadcast receiver client of particular application content or filtering attributes to use in selecting application content to be received. The broadcast receiver client receives the indicated application content at the designated broadcast time and passes the received content to the application for processing. In an embodiment the application is a Mobile Billboard Advertising (MobAd) application, the application metadata includes attributes about ad content and the broadcast application content includes ad content. | 11-25-2010 |
20110103316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING OF QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Scheduling real-time Quality of Service (QoS) data flows in a large-scale wireless communications system uses credit allocation to active QoS flows based on quality-of-service weights, and the credits are measured in dimensionless units of air interface slot capacity. Scheduling addresses inactive QoS flows with no data pending for transmission that may accumulate up to a burst credits limit based upon a fair share of all credits that would be allocated in a 100% busy system. Intermittent flows such as echo requests or keyboard input can thereby get immediate service by using their burst credits. The flow with the highest credit accumulation is serviced first and may use up to a full time slot (or system quanta) of air interface time reducing header encapsulation overhead when payload sizes (and spectral efficiency) are low. Additive and multiplicative aspects age the negative credits back to zero whenever a flow overspends its credit allocation. | 05-05-2011 |
20120232988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC ADS WITHIN A VIDEO GAME OF A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system for generating and tracking dynamic advertisements within a program, such as a video game, running on a portable computing device (PCD) are described. The method and system include receiving a call from the program for a texture and reviewing an identifier associated with the texture. A graphics driver determines if the identifier associated with the texture matches an identifier in a texture database. The graphics driver then selects a dynamic advertisement from a texture database if the identifier associated with the texture matches the identifier in the texture database. The graphics driver issues commands to the graphics processor so that dynamic advertisement is presented on a screen display. The graphics driver then determines if a video object produced by the program blocks a portion of the dynamic advertisement present on the screen display. | 09-13-2012 |
20120259946 | NETWORK STREAMING OF VIDEO DATA USING BYTE RANGE REQUESTS - In one example, a device for receiving information for multimedia data includes one or more processors configured to determine a byte range of a file of a representation of multimedia content to request from a source device, form a uniform resource locator (URL) that specifies, in a file path portion of the URL, according to a template, the file and the byte range in accordance with requirements of the source device, and issue a GET request that specifies the formed URL to the source device. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259994 | IP BROADCAST STREAMING SERVICES DISTRIBUTION USING FILE DELIVERY METHODS - In one example, a device includes one or more processing units configured to send, via a network, a request to retrieve at least a portion of media content, wherein the media content conforms to dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), and wherein the request comprises a request that the at least portion be delivered according to a file delivery service, and, in response to the request, to receive streaming data for the at least portion of the media content in accordance with the file delivery service over the network. The device may prepopulate a browser cache with the received data, such that a browser can, in effect, stream data using the file delivery service. The device may initially retrieve data of the media content using unicast, until a switch point of the data received via the file delivery service is reached. | 10-11-2012 |
20120303745 | APPLICATION TRANSPORT LEVEL LOCATION FILTERING OF INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTICAST CONTENT DELIVERY - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a plurality of data sets in a first FLUTE session. Each data set of the data sets includes an identifier and a target area associated with a broadcast. The apparatus receives a broadcast and an identifier associated with the broadcast in a second FLUTE session. The apparatus determines the target area associated with the received broadcast based on the identifier received with the received broadcast. The apparatus determines whether to keep the received broadcast based on whether a criterion associated with the target area is satisfied. | 11-29-2012 |
20130103849 | SIGNALING CHARACTERISTICS OF SEGMENTS FOR NETWORK STREAMING OF MEDIA DATA - Video data is retrieved from a server. During retrieval of the video data, a client device receives information indicating bit rates of representations of multimedia content. In addition, the client device receives information indicating priority values for segments of the representations. The segments correspond to particular temporal sections of the representations. The client device requests selected ones of the segments based on the priority values for the segments and an estimated throughput. In some instances, the client device requests the segments in accordance with an adaptive streaming network protocol, such as Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). | 04-25-2013 |
20130278734 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC ADS WITHIN A VIDEO GAME OF A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system for generating and tracking dynamic advertisements within a program, such as a video game, running on a portable computing device (PCD) are described. The method and system include receiving a call from the program for a texture and reviewing an identifier associated with the texture. A graphics driver determines if the identifier associated with the texture matches an identifier in a texture database. The graphics driver then selects a dynamic advertisement from a texture database if the identifier associated with the texture matches the identifier in the texture database. The graphics driver issues commands to the graphics processor so that dynamic advertisement is presented on a screen display. The graphics driver then determines if a video object produced by the program blocks a portion of the dynamic advertisement present on the screen display. | 10-24-2013 |
20140222962 | DETERMINING AVAILABLE MEDIA DATA FOR NETWORK STREAMING - A client device includes one or more processors configured to send a plurality of probe requests for segments of media data to a server device, wherein the server device provides the media data using a live streaming service, analyze responses to the plurality of probe requests to determine a left edge and a right edge of a segment availability window, and send a request for a segment within the segment availability window based on the determined left edge and the determined right edge of the segment availability window, in accordance with the live streaming service. | 08-07-2014 |
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20090040981 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IN-ORDER DELIVERY OF DATA PACKETS DURING HANDOFF - Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are defined that provide for in-order deliver of data packets during hand-off. The aspects provide for in-order delivery at Forward Link Serving eBS/Data Attachment Point (FLSE/DAP) switch and Reverse Link Serving eBS/Data Attachment Point (RLSE/DAP) switch. As such, present aspects provide for significant improvement in the throughput of applications, such as applications relying on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), during handoff, in such networks as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) and the like. | 02-12-2009 |
20090254930 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND REDEEMING CREDITS ON A BROADCAST SYSTEM - Methods and systems enable receiving on mobile devices credits, tokens or coupons from mobile TV broadcast service providers. Credits may be delivered via direct unicast messages such as SMS or e-mail, or via broadcast provisioning messages. Subscription response messages may be used to deliver credits to mobile devises which transmit a request for service. Broadcast service providers may push credits to mobile devices by transmitting a solicited pull message or a credit grant push message. Credits may be sent to mobile devices within a credit response message or a long term decryption key message. Credits may be used a purchase transaction, with the broadcast service provider controlling redemption of credits by sending an a long term decryption key message via a unicast network or a short term decryption key message via the broadcast network to cause mobile devices to decrement their stored credits. | 10-08-2009 |
20100122274 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND REDEEMING CREDITS ON A BROADCAST SYSTEM - Methods and systems enable receiver devices to receive electronic coupons from mobile TV broadcast service providers. Coupon templates may be broadcasted to mobile devices. Coupon templates may be used to communicate with coupon managers to receive digitally signed coupons. Coupon managers may use received data to create digitally signed coupons for delivery to receiver devices via a unicast networks. Digitally signed coupons may also be broadcasted to receiver devices. A receiver device may verify received electronic coupons using the digital signature to identify those coupons intended for them. The electronic coupons may be redeemed at a point of sale. Merchants may locally verify coupons using their digital signature. Coupon digital signatures may be generated using a chain of X.509 certificates leading to a root X.509 coupon-signing authority to enable recipients to confirm that coupons originated from a trustworthy entity. | 05-13-2010 |
20100151882 | LOCATION LOGGING AND LOCATION AND TIME BASED FILTERING - Techniques for performing location logging and location and time based filtering are described. In one design of location logging, a terminal periodically determines its location, e.g., during its paging slots. The terminal determines whether there is a change in its location and stores its location if a change in location is detected. In one design of location and time based filtering, the terminal obtains a location and time criterion with a target area and a time period. The terminal determines its location during the time period, e.g., based on the location log. The terminal evaluates the location and time criterion based on the target area and its location during the time period, e.g., based on at least one sector ID for the target area and one or more sector IDs for its location. The terminal determines whether to download and/or present broadcast information based on the result of the evaluation. | 06-17-2010 |
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20130225607 | METHOD FOR TREATING A PULMONARY HYPERTENSION CONDITION WITHOUT COMPANION DIAGNOSIS - There is provided a method for treating pulmonary hypertension in a subject, comprising: administering to the subject in need thereof a daily dose of ambrisentan from 1 mg to about 15 mg, wherein the method is carried out without drug labeling instruction to monitor liver aminotransferase levels during ambrisentan treatment. | 08-29-2013 |
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