公开(公告)号：US20100094866A1

公开(公告)日：2010-04-15

申请号：US12449273

申请日：2008-01-29

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Jeffrey A. Dibartolomeo ,  Bruce Probst ,  John Clayton Beyler ,  Lars Stalling ,  Juho Parviainen ,  Alexander Thompson Grishaver ,  Michael Gabriel

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Jeffrey A. Dibartolomeo ,  Bruce Probst ,  John Clayton Beyler ,  Lars Stalling ,  Juho Parviainen ,  Alexander Thompson Grishaver ,  Michael Gabriel

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F17/30035 ,  G06F17/30817 ,  G06F17/30828 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N21/252 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4826

摘要： A system and method for generating a list of content is disclosed. A processor may store in memory at least one content preference of a user, may store at least one non-user content preference of at least one entity other than the user, may associate the at least one non-user content preference with the user, and may generate the content list based on a combination of the at least one content preference of the user and the at least one non-user content preference for output to the user.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于生成内容列表的系统和方法。 处理器可以在存储器中存储至少一个用户的内容偏好，可以存储除用户之外的至少一个实体的至少一个非用户内容偏好，可以将该至少一个非用户内容偏好与该用户相关联， 并且可以基于用户的至少一个内容偏好和用于输出给用户的至少一个非用户内容偏好的组合来生成内容列表。

公开(公告)号：US06314575B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-06

申请号：US08811418

申请日：1997-03-04

申请人： John K. Billock ,  Craig D. Cuttner ,  Kevin C. Dowdell ,  Elizabeth B. Flanagan ,  James E. Granger ,  Henry C. Hsu ,  Robert I. M. Martin ,  Robert May ,  Nicolas Peck ,  Michael S. Pontecorvo ,  Bruce E. Probst ,  Marc D. Rosenberg ,  Debra R. Smul ,  Dennis P. Wilkinson ,  Robert M. Zitter

发明人： John K. Billock ,  Craig D. Cuttner ,  Kevin C. Dowdell ,  Elizabeth B. Flanagan ,  James E. Granger ,  Henry C. Hsu ,  Robert I. M. Martin ,  Robert May ,  Nicolas Peck ,  Michael S. Pontecorvo ,  Bruce E. Probst ,  Marc D. Rosenberg ,  Debra R. Smul ,  Dennis P. Wilkinson ,  Robert M. Zitter

IPC分类号： H04N7173

CPC分类号： H04N21/47202 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N7/17336 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/8549

摘要： A telecasting service is provided that offers video programs upon viewer demand, and which includes an interactive interface for facilitating viewer selection of video programs. The interactive interface allows the viewer to scan through a list of video programs available on the demand telecasting service. The interactive interface also provides the viewer with still images, full-motion previews, and textual descriptions of the available programs. The demand telecasting service distinguishes subscribers from non-subscribers, and provides an interactive facility for allowing non-subscribers to subscribe to the system.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种电视广播服务，其根据观众的需求提供视频节目，并且包括用于促进观众选择视频节目的交互界面。 交互界面允许观众浏览需求电视转播服务中可用的视频节目列表。 交互式界面还向观众提供可用节目的静态图像，全动态预览和文字描述。 需求电视广播服务将用户与非用户区分开来，并提供了允许非订户订阅系统的互动设施。

公开(公告)号：US5619249A

公开(公告)日：1997-04-08

申请号：US305847

申请日：1994-09-14

申请人： John K. Billock ,  Craig D. Cuttner ,  Kevin C. Dowdell ,  Elizabeth B. Flanagan ,  James E. Granger ,  Henry C. Hsu ,  Robert I. M. Martin ,  Robert May ,  Nicolas Peck ,  Michael S. Pontecorvo ,  Bruce E. Probst ,  Marc D. Rosenberg ,  Debra R. Smul ,  Dennis P. Wilkinson ,  Robert M. Zitter

发明人： John K. Billock ,  Craig D. Cuttner ,  Kevin C. Dowdell ,  Elizabeth B. Flanagan ,  James E. Granger ,  Henry C. Hsu ,  Robert I. M. Martin ,  Robert May ,  Nicolas Peck ,  Michael S. Pontecorvo ,  Bruce E. Probst ,  Marc D. Rosenberg ,  Debra R. Smul ,  Dennis P. Wilkinson ,  Robert M. Zitter

IPC分类号： H04N5/44 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/8549

CPC分类号： H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/8549 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N7/17336 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/445

摘要： A telecasting service is provided that offers video programs upon viewer demand, and which includes an interactive interface for facilitating viewer selection of video programs. The interactive interface allows the viewer to scan through a list of video programs available on the demand telecasting service. The interactive interface also provides the viewer with still images, full-motion previews, and textual descriptions of the available programs. The demand telecasting service distinguishes subscribers from non-subscribers, and provides an interactive facility for allowing non-subscribers to subscribe to the system.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种电视广播服务，其根据观众的需求提供视频节目，并且包括用于促进观众选择视频节目的交互界面。 交互界面允许观众浏览需求电视转播服务中可用的视频节目列表。 交互式界面还向观众提供可用节目的静态图像，全动态预览和文字描述。 需求电视广播服务将用户与非用户区分开来，并提供了允许非订户订阅系统的互动设施。

公开(公告)号：US08683518B2

公开(公告)日：2014-03-25

申请号：US10753860

申请日：2004-01-07

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Sarah Cotsen ,  Henry Merritt Paulson, III ,  Mary Baumgartner ,  Sandy Alessandro Spadavecchia ,  John Barnett Ovrutsky ,  Stephanie Otto ,  Michael Stanley Onaitis

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Sarah Cotsen ,  Henry Merritt Paulson, III ,  Mary Baumgartner ,  Sandy Alessandro Spadavecchia ,  John Barnett Ovrutsky ,  Stephanie Otto ,  Michael Stanley Onaitis

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/4316 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/4438 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8549

摘要： An integrated media viewing environment including a user interface (UI) and a method for providing a program guide with an integrated media viewing environment. The integrated media viewing environment presents viewers with on-screen displays, e.g., a single, integrated on-screen display, that may be used to obtain, view and/or record media content, including programming that is currently airing, available via download or data streaming, available on an “on demand” basis, and/or available from local storage or removable media.

摘要翻译： 一种集成媒体观看环境，包括用户界面（UI）和用于向节目指南提供集成媒体观看环境的方法。 集成媒体观看环境向观众提供屏幕显示，例如，可以用于获得，查看和/或记录媒体内容的单个集成屏幕显示，包括正在播放的节目，可通过下载获得或播放， 数据流，“按需”可用，和/或可从本地存储或可移动介质获得。

公开(公告)号：US07434142B2

公开(公告)日：2008-10-07

申请号：US10620964

申请日：2003-07-15

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Robert M. Zitter

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Robert M. Zitter

IPC分类号： H03M13/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/2402 ,  H04N7/17309 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N17/004 ,  H04N21/23617 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/8166

摘要： A system and method for providing quality assurance for interactive television and software application data packages delivered via a network. By employing “code checks” that determine “code points” based on the original package, content or data packages may be checked for errors at any later point within the network path from the provider to the subscriber. The data package can be checked for errors by performing some or all of the code checks and comparing the current code point values to the original code point values. If the current values differ from the original values, then the data package has changed and an error is likely to have occurred. Further action may then be taken to determine the nature of the error and to respond to it.

公开(公告)号：US08611727B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-17

申请号：US12240273

申请日：2008-09-29

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner

IPC分类号： H04N5/93

CPC分类号： G11B20/00086 ,  G11B20/00876 ,  G11B20/00884 ,  G11B27/024 ,  G11B27/028 ,  G11B27/032 ,  G11B27/3036 ,  G11B2220/90 ,  H04N5/913 ,  H04N2005/91335

摘要： A process and facility supports recipient-specific customization of mass-duplicated tapes. Video from a master tape is passed through a VBI encoder whose output feeds two or more overlay units, each associated with a tape recorder. Recipient-specific watermarking instructions and address information for each tape are fed to the VBI encoder where they are encoded into the VBI of the video. Each overlay unit reads the VBI and decodes the address, and if relevant for that unit, applies the overlays to the video, which is recorded by its associated recording deck. Optionally, each tape and overlay unit includes a barcode that is scanned into a database where associations between tapes and the overlays are stored. Alternatively, high-density barcode labels that include the overlay instructions are printed and applied to tapes. The barcodes are scanned into the overlay units and applied following the receipt of a timecode or other trigger.

摘要翻译： 流程和设施支持大量复制磁带的接收者特定的定制。 来自主磁带的视频通过VBI编码器，其输出馈送两个或更多个覆盖单元，每个覆盖单元与磁带录像机相关联。 每个磁带的特定于接收者的水印指令和地址信息被馈送到VBI编码器，在那里它们被编码到视频的VBI中。 每个覆盖单元读取VBI并对地址进行解码，如果与该单元相关，则将覆盖层应用于由相关联的记录层记录的视频。 可选地，每个磁带和覆盖单元包括扫描到数据库中的条形码，其中磁带和叠层之间的关联被存储。 或者，包括覆盖指令的高密度条形码标签被打印并应用于磁带。 将条形码扫描到覆盖单元中，并在接收到时间码或其他触发器之后应用。

公开(公告)号：US07622245B2

公开(公告)日：2009-11-24

申请号：US11247478

申请日：2005-10-11

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner

IPC分类号： G03C5/56

CPC分类号： G11B23/281 ,  G11B7/26 ,  Y10S430/146 ,  Y10T428/24802

摘要： Instances of data-storage media having pits and lands, such as individual DVDs or CDs, are manufactured by selectively illuminating a light-curable material to form cured regions corresponding to the lands. The selective illumination of the light-curable material can be implemented using mask-based illumination or selective laser illumination or both. The mask used in mask-based illumination can have one or more extra opaque portions and/or one or more extra transparent portions corresponding to false pits and/or false lands, respectively, where selective laser illumination is used to convert one or more false pits/lands produced during mask-based illumination into true pits/lands for the competed medium.

摘要翻译： 通过选择性地照亮可光固化材料以形成对应于焊盘的固化区域来制造具有凹坑和焊盘的数据存储介质（例如单独的DVD或CD）的实例。 光可固化材料的选择性照明可以使用基于掩模的照明或选择性激光照明或两者来实现。 用于基于掩模的照明中的掩模可以分别具有一个或多个额外的不透明部分和/或一个或多个对应于伪凹坑和/或伪纹的额外的透明部分，其中使用选择性激光照射来转换一个或多个假坑 /在面罩照明下产生的土地为竞争媒介的真实坑/土地。

公开(公告)号：US09477666B2

公开(公告)日：2016-10-25

申请号：US12449273

申请日：2008-01-29

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Jeffrey A Dibartolomeo ,  Bruce Probst ,  John Clayton Beyler ,  Lars Stalling ,  Juho Parviainen ,  Alexander Thompson Grishaver ,  Michael Gabriel

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner ,  Jeffrey A Dibartolomeo ,  Bruce Probst ,  John Clayton Beyler ,  Lars Stalling ,  Juho Parviainen ,  Alexander Thompson Grishaver ,  Michael Gabriel

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/482

CPC分类号： G06F17/30035 ,  G06F17/30817 ,  G06F17/30828 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N21/252 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4826

摘要： A system and method for generating a list of content is disclosed. A processor may store in memory at least one content preference of a user, may store at least one non-user content preference of at least one entity other than the user, may associate the at least one non-user content preference with the user, and may generate the content list based on a combination of the at least one content preference of the user and the at least one non-user content preference for output to the user.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于生成内容列表的系统和方法。 处理器可以在存储器中存储至少一个用户的内容偏好，可以存储除用户之外的至少一个实体的至少一个非用户内容偏好，可以将该至少一个非用户内容偏好与该用户相关联， 并且可以基于用户的至少一个内容偏好和用于输出给用户的至少一个非用户内容偏好的组合来生成内容列表。

公开(公告)号：US09118882B2

公开(公告)日：2015-08-25

申请号：US11052265

申请日：2005-02-07

申请人： Hans J. Deutmeyer ,  Craig D. Cuttner

发明人： Hans J. Deutmeyer ,  Craig D. Cuttner

IPC分类号： H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N9/804

CPC分类号： H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N9/8045 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/44016

摘要： A method and apparatus updates supplement information (SI) in a time-shifted multimedia program that includes a primary multimedia-content feed and one or more SI overlays. In one embodiment, the invention identifies spatial, temporal, and/or logical occurrences of supplemental information (SI) in a recorded program and replaces this potentially outdated information with SI that is either less time-sensitive and/or updated to be relevant to the playback time of the program. In another embodiment, SI overlays are identified by tags that are embedded into a multimedia program feed and stored (time-shifted) along with the feed by an enhanced digital video recorder (EDVR) set-top. The set-top decodes the stored feed, reads the tags to determine sources for replacement SI, retrieves the replacement SI from the sources, and creates updated overlays from the replacement SI. The set-top then replaces the original overlays with updated SI overlays and outputs the result to a display.

摘要翻译： 方法和装置在包括主多媒体内容馈送和一个或多个SI覆盖的时移多媒体节目中更新补充信息（SI）。 在一个实施例中，本发明识别记录的程序中的补充信息（SI）的空间，时间和/或逻辑出现，并用SI替代该潜在过时的信息，SI与时间敏感和/或更新相关，以便与 播放时间的程序。 在另一个实施例中，通过由增强数字录像机（EDVR）机顶盒与馈送一起嵌入多媒体节目馈送并存储（时移）的标签来标识SI覆盖。 机顶盒解码存储的进纸，读取标签以确定替换SI的来源，从源中检索替换SI，并从替换SI创建更新的重叠。 机顶盒然后用更新的SI覆盖替换原始叠加层，并将结果输出到显示。

公开(公告)号：US08114579B2

公开(公告)日：2012-02-14

申请号：US12577354

申请日：2009-10-12

申请人： Craig D. Cuttner

发明人： Craig D. Cuttner

IPC分类号： G03C5/56

CPC分类号： G11B23/281 ,  G11B7/26 ,  Y10S430/146 ,  Y10T428/24802

摘要： Instances of data-storage media having pits and lands, such as individual DVDs or CDs, are manufactured by selectively illuminating a light-curable material to form cured regions corresponding to the lands. The selective illumination of the light-curable material can be implemented using mask-based illumination or selective laser illumination or both. The mask used in mask-based illumination can have one or more extra opaque portions and/or one or more extra transparent portions corresponding to false pits and/or false lands, respectively, where selective laser illumination is used to convert one or more false pits/lands produced during mask-based illumination into true pits/lands for the competed medium.

摘要翻译： 通过选择性地照亮可光固化材料以形成对应于焊盘的固化区域来制造具有凹坑和焊盘的数据存储介质（例如单独的DVD或CD）的实例。 光可固化材料的选择性照明可以使用基于掩模的照明或选择性激光照明或两者来实现。 用于基于掩模的照明中的掩模可以分别具有一个或多个额外的不透明部分和/或一个或多个对应于伪凹坑和/或伪纹的额外的透明部分，其中使用选择性激光照射来转换一个或多个假坑 /在面罩照明下产生的土地为竞争媒介的真实坑/土地。