| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 725085000 | Receiver | 18 |
| 20090025043 | Multiband receiving apparatus and multiband transmitting apparatus using tunable filter - A multiband receiving apparatus and multiband transmitting apparatus using a tunable band is provided. The receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals, and a tunable filter unit for selectively outputting the received RF signals. As a result, a complicated RF transceiving system is simplified, and time and cost for developing and designing a transceiving apparatus are reduced. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090210913 | METHOD OF CUSTOMER PVR TO NETWORK-BASED DVR SYNCHRONIZATION - A method for providing customer PVR to network-based DVR synchronization is described, wherein the said method generally comprises, obtaining cumulative statistics on the number of recordings scheduled for a multi-media broadcast during a period of time; determining the recording schedule for a centralized multi-media recording apparatus based on the said cumulative statistics; and recording at least a subset of the multi-media broadcast with the centralized multi-media recording apparatus, based on the determined recording schedule. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100043032 | Electronic Device for Supporting Multimedia Over Coax Alliance Standard - The invention discloses an electronic device for supporting a multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) standard. The electronic device is coupled with a coaxial cable. The electronic device includes an input terminal, a back stage processing unit, and a band pass filter. The input terminal is coupled with the coaxial cable. The band pass filter is coupled between the input terminal and the back stage processing unit, and it receives an input signal from the input terminal. The band pass filter allows a plurality of television channel signals in a predetermined frequency range to pass through and transmits them to the back stage processing unit to be processed. The band pass filter rejects a MoCA standard system signal to prevent it from entering the back stage processing unit. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20110030017 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING RESOURCES FOR SETUP BOXES (STB) IN A HOME NETWORK - A STB resource sharing (RS) group of a home network comprises a plurality of STBs. In the STB RS group, a STB communicates with one or more other STBs to mutually share available device resources comprising hardware and software resources, and/or capabilities. The STB functions as an elected master (EM) or a STB RS client in the STB RS group. As an EM, the STB receives advertisements from other STBs to determine available resources. The determined available resources are announced to other STBs in the STB RS group. The STB manages the use of the determined available resources according to resource sharing requests received from other STBs. As a STB RS client, the STB advertises inherent resources to an EM of the STB RS group. The STB receives announcements from the EM for available resources in the STB RS group. The STB shares its available resources, accordingly. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110119719 | Mosaic Application for Generating Output Utilizing Content from Multiple Television Receivers - A television receiver generates an output utilizing content from other television receivers connected via a local area network. The television receiver sends requests to the other television receivers, receives content in response to the requests, generates an output including the content, and displays the output on a display device. The television receiver may include its own content. Subsequently, the television receiver may alter the output based on user input. The other television receivers may determine whether the requests are allowed by a content control system. The requests may include detected content received by a detection device or programming content such as currently displayed content, content from a tuner, and/or recorded content. The other television receivers may also convert the content to a still image prior to sending. If so, the television receiver may periodically send out new requests for updated still images and update the output accordingly. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110179456 | HOME NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR DELIVERING HIGH-SPEED DATA SERVICES - A home multimedia network comprises a plurality of source nodes, wherein each of the source nodes includes an apparatus for concurrently transmitting and receiving high-speed data services; a plurality of sink nodes, wherein each of the sink nodes includes the apparatus for concurrently transmitting and receiving high-speed data services; a switch for connecting a first group of the plurality of source nodes located at one room to one or more sink nodes located at a different room than the first group of source nodes, the first group of source nodes and the one or more sink nodes are connected to the switch through a twisted-pair cable, the high-speed data services are concurrently transported over the twisted-pair cable, wherein the high-speed data services include at least uncompressed multimedia data, Ethernet data, and Universal Serial Bus data | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110239259 | BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - A device may include a memory to store parameters associated with allocating bandwidth. The bandwidth may be allocated among at least a local class of traffic and a network class of traffic, and a portion of the bandwidth may be shareable between the local and network classes of traffic. The device may also include a communication interface to receive requests for access to bandwidth from a number of devices, the devices including at least one set top box (STB) and at least one digital video recorder (DVR). The device may also include logic to receive a first request having a corresponding first bandwidth and being associated with a first class of traffic, and determine whether the first bandwidth plus currently used bandwidth associated with the first class of traffic is less than a reserved bandwidth associated with the first class of traffic. The logic may also be configured to approve the first request when the first bandwidth plus currently used bandwidth associated with the first class of traffic is less than the reserved bandwidth associated with the first class of traffic. The logic may be further configured to forward the first request to a second device to determine whether a portion of the shareable bandwidth is available to fulfill the request, when the first bandwidth plus the currently used bandwidth associated with the first class of traffic is not greater than a maximum bandwidth associated with the first class of traffic | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120017250 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTROL OF SET-TOP BOXES - An approach is provided for controlling one or more set-top boxes. Communications is established among a plurality of set-top boxes. One of the set-top boxes is designated as a master set-top box that is configured to control one or more of remaining ones of the set-top boxes. A control message is generated to configure the remaining ones of the set-top boxes as child set-top boxes. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120167149 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM - An electronic device includes: a digital signal transmission/reception unit configured to perform two-way transmission of a digital signal using multiple differential signal lanes prepared at a transmission path with an external device; a transmission path arrangement determining unit configured to determine a transmission path arrangement including the number of use lanes, a use lane number, and a transmission direction by performing communication with the external device using a two-way communication line prepared at the transmission path with the external device; and a transmission path arrangement control unit configured to control the arrangement of the digital signal transmission/reception unit based on the information of the transmission path arrangement determined at the transmission path arrangement determining unit. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20130091528 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, RECEIVE TERMINAL, HOME GATEWAY DEVICE, AND QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM - A video reproduction system including: a video receive terminal for generating both first quality information for reproducing a degraded video which is played back by a user side from a video stream distributed thereto via an external network and a home network, and quality control information based on the first quality information; a home gateway device for generating second quality information for reproducing a virtual degraded video from which an influence of quality degradation caused by the home network is removed on the basis of the quality control information; and a quality control system for reproducing the degraded video by using both an original video stream which is yet to be distributed via the external network and the first quality information while reproducing the virtual degraded video by using both the original video stream and the second quality information. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130263192 | Recording in a Local Network - A media rendering recording device ( | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140033260 | Shared Television Sessions - Shared television sessions are described. In embodiment(s), television content can be received via a tuner of a tuner device. A shared television session can be established between rendering devices that share the tuner of the tuner device to receive the television content. A tuner configuration input can be received when initiated at a rendering device, and the tuner configuration input can be communicated to the tuner device to change the television content. The tuner device can receive different television content via the tuner according to the tuner configuration input. Tuner update data associated with the tuner configuration input can then be communicated to update the rendering devices that further share the tuner of the tuner device to receive the different television content. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140059623 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PROGRAMMING ON DEMAND TO A SMART DEVICE - A system and method for obtaining access to multimedia programming transmissions while residing in a temporary dwelling is provided. The temporary dwelling includes a smart docking station in which a smart device may be placed and operably connected. The smart docking station, which houses the smart device, is attached to a server located in a remote geographic location, or in a “cloud.” The smart docking station is operably connected to the remote server wirelessly or via hard wiring, and is able to receive multimedia programming content delivered from content providers. The movie or other multimedia programming may be streamed from a content provider to the smart docking station in the temporary dwelling, via the remote server, to be viewed/listened to on the smart device operably connected to the smart docking station. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140130108 | FRONT MODULE HAVING TRIPLEXER FOR MULTIMEDIA OVER COAX ALLIANCE - Disclosed herein is a front module having a triplexer. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the front module includes: a triplexer receiving and distributing a MoCA receiving signal and a cable broadcasting signal from a coaxial cable and receiving the MoCA transmitting signal and outputting the received MoCA transmitting signal to the coaxial cable; a transceiver for MoCA removing and outputting noise from the MoCA receiving signal input through the triplexer and amplifying the MoCA transmitting signal input from the outside and providing the amplified MoCA transmitting signal to the triplexer; and a receiver for cable removing and outputting noise from the cable broadcasting signal input through the triplexer. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140325573 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION CABLE - The present invention relates to a communication system, a transmitter, a receiver, a communication method, a program, and a communication cable for providing high-speed bidirectional communication while maintaining compatibility. When an HDMI® source performs bidirectional IP communication with an HDMI® sink using a CEC line and a signal line, a switching control unit controls a switch so that, when data is transmitted, the switch selects a constituent signal forming a differential signal output from a converting unit and, when data is transmitted, the switch selects a constituent signal forming a differential signal output from a receiver. When bidirectional communication is performed using only the CEC line, the switching control unit controls the switch so that the CEC signal output from the HDMI® source or the receiver is selected. The present invention is applicable to, for example, HDMI®. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150020123 | Bandwidth Flexibility Through Multiple Frequency Channel Data Distribution - An enhanced multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) implementation having a single Receive (Rx) physical (Phy) module that is arranged to receive data via one of at least two Rx radio frequency (RF) modules, which are arranged to be in communication with a coaxial cable, and at least two transmit (Tx) Phy modules respectively arranged to be in communication with two Tx RF modules, which are also arranged to be in communication with the coaxial cable. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20160037209 | VIDEO AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE AND SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, video audio output device is connected to an electronic device and reproduces a predetermined content together with the electronic device. The video audio output device includes storage, first module, second module, and seamless reproduction controller. The storage stores correspondence relationship between different position within view of image acquiring device and the electronic device placed outside the view. The image acquiring device acquires an image around the video audio output device. The first module specifies, based on the image, position at which person has disappeared from the view. The second module specifies, based on the correspondence relationship, an electronic device associated with the position specified by the first module. The seamless reproduction controller transmits, to the electronic device specified by the second module, signal for requesting preparation of seamless reproduction of a content that is currently being reproduced by the video audio output device. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160134928 | Media Appliance and Method for Use of Same - A media appliance and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a housing is adapted to be mounted within a wall. A panel forms a front portion of the housing and the panel includes vents and the panel may be mounted substantially flush with the wall. A media player, which includes a set-top box, is disposed within the housing. A pair of ports, disposed within openings defined by the housing, are configured to receive respective connectors. The pair of ports are coupled to the media player and one port is configured for providing a connection to a television and the other port is configured for providing a connection to an external source of signal for the television, as well as power for the media player. | 05-12-2016 |
