摘要:
Television sound themes for a set-top box interactive television system may be customized for each member of a household. Machine-readable media may provide customization logic and user interface logic. Sounds for a user-customized television system sound theme may be drawn from a digital audio file source. Logic components and the digital sound file source for a television sound theme system may reside locally at the set-top box, or may be accessed remotely over a network.
摘要:
A method of emailing photographs from a set top box is disclosed and includes presenting a menu of photographs at a television coupled to the set top box. The photographs within the menu can be highlighted using a remote control device. The method further includes presenting an email button at the television and presenting an address book. The address book contains at least one recipient email address. Further, the method includes sending an email addressed to the at least one recipient email address. In particular, the email includes a return email address that causes a response to the email to be sent to a location other than the set top box.
摘要:
A method for managing a first television tuner and a second television tuner is provided. The method includes detecting when a channel request is received at the first television coupled to the first television tuner and detecting whether a recording is scheduled for the first television tuner. Thereafter, a user is queried via a second television to determine whether the second television tuner is available to record a scheduled recording.
摘要:
A DSL sync detector indicates whether or not DSL sync is present on a telephone line. The detector facilitates DSL self-installation by indicating to a subscriber that the subscriber may proceed with the self-installation of DSL because DSL sync has been detected on the subscriber's telephone line. Specific embodiments provide a detector that plugs into a telephone jack and that has a telephone pass-through port so that a telephone may be plugged into the jack while the customer waits for DSL sync to be present. The detector is a useful component of a DSL self-installation kit to prevent failed self-installations that result from attempting a DSL self-installation before DSL sync is present on the line.
摘要:
The present disclosure is generally directed to a video stream processing system and to a method of displaying a video stream. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a video stream to be displayed on a display device. During a first time period, a low resolution version of the video stream is displayed while a full resolution version of the video stream is being recovered. The method further includes synchronizing the low resolution version of the video stream with the full resolution version of the video stream, and, during a second time period after the first time period, switching between display of the low resolution version of the video stream to display of the full resolution version of the video stream.
摘要:
A system includes sleeves each being removably receivable, one at a time, by an adapter connectable to an appliance operable for enabling a user to communicate hands-free on a phone when the phone is connected to the appliance. The sleeves are differently configured from one another to respectively receive, one at a time, phones having configurations which correspond to the configurations of the sleeves. One of the sleeves connects a phone to the appliance via the adapter when the phone is received by the sleeve while the sleeve is received by the adapter while the adapter is connected to the appliance.
摘要:
A system and method are disclosed for providing authentication services. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving a common user credential from a user seeking access to an information network. In some embodiments, the common user credential may have been broadly assigned and may not effectively operate as a unique identifier for the user. A unique credential may be generated for the user at a network node and may include some piece of network specific information associated with or capable of uniquely identifying a connection being used by the user. The unique credential may then be considered in combination with the common user credential or in lieu of the common user credential when making an authentication decision for the user.
摘要:
Research of television viewing behavior shows that there is a population of television users who tune the television to a particular channel but do not attentively watch the resulting broadcast. In a typical broadcast television system, this poses no additional loads on the system and does not incur additional cost for the content provider. In IPTV, however, these unattended content streams consume valuable bandwidth. A bandwidth management process for television content transmitted via Internet Protocol involves accepting a user designation of identified content as being content that will not be attentively viewed, or that will not be viewed at all during transmission, and reducing the bandwidth for the transmission of the designated content. One approach involves adjusting the video component of the transmitted content to reduce the bandwidth. Another approach involves recording the content to a DVR and automatically playing back the recorded content in a loop.
摘要:
A method of managing video streams is disclosed and includes monitoring the power to a display device coupled to a set top box. Also, the method includes determining whether the display device is in a low power mode and requesting that a content provider turn off a video stream to the set top box, after determining that the display device is in the low power mode.
摘要:
A uniform resource locator (URL) entered into a browser may be altered to correct misspellings or other errors in the URL. The prefix, the domain name and the domain extension may all be spell checked, compared with lists of homophones, compared with commonly misspelled URLs, and compared with similar URLs that have been previously successfully resolved. The erroneous URL, or portions thereof, may be automatically corrected so that the correction is transparent to the user, or a list of possible substitutions may be presented to the user.