公开(公告)号：US07808887B2

公开(公告)日：2010-10-05

申请号：US11466516

申请日：2006-08-23

申请人： Gerard Damm ,  Kamakshi Sridhar ,  John Coulter ,  Gino Dion

发明人： Gerard Damm ,  Kamakshi Sridhar ,  John Coulter ,  Gino Dion

IPC分类号： H04L12/28

CPC分类号： H04L45/22 ,  H04L12/4625 ,  H04L45/02 ,  H04L45/28 ,  H04L45/50

摘要： A bridge/router and method are described herein that are capable of avoiding packet replication at layer 2 where there is a failure in a network. In one embodiment, the bridge/router is informed about a fault which occurred within the network. Then, the bridge/router makes a determination about whether or not multiple LSPs would be used to flood/carry the same IP traffic out off a single port. If yes, the first bridge/router chooses one of the LSPs to carry the IP traffic out the single port and then prevents the IP traffic from being carried on the remaining LSP(s) out the single port which avoids the packet replication on a link which is associated with the single port. If no, then the first bridge/router allows the IP traffic to be carried on the LSPs out off more than one port.

摘要翻译： 这里描述了能够避免在网络中存在故障的层2处的分组复制的桥/路由器和方法。 在一个实施例中，桥接/路由器被通知在网络内发生的故障。 然后，桥/路由器确定是否将使用多个LSP来将单个端口上的相同IP流量进行泛洪/携带。 如果是，则第一个桥接器/路由器选择其中一个LSP将IP流量从单个端口携带，然后防止IP流量在单个端口上携带，从而避免链路上的数据包复制 它与单个端口相关联。 如果否，则第一个桥接器/路由器允许在多个端口上的LSP上携带IP流量。

公开(公告)号：US20080049763A1

公开(公告)日：2008-02-28

申请号：US11466516

申请日：2006-08-23

申请人： Gerard Damm ,  Kamakshi Sridhar ,  John Coulter ,  Gino Dion

发明人： Gerard Damm ,  Kamakshi Sridhar ,  John Coulter ,  Gino Dion

IPC分类号： H04L12/56

CPC分类号： H04L45/22 ,  H04L12/4625 ,  H04L45/02 ,  H04L45/28 ,  H04L45/50

摘要： A bridge/router and method are described herein that are capable of avoiding packet replication at layer 2 where there is a failure in a network. In one embodiment, the bridge/router is informed about a fault which occurred within the network. Then, the bridge/router makes a determination about whether or not multiple LSPs would be used to flood/carry the same IP traffic out off a single port. If yes, the first bridge/router chooses one of the LSPs to carry the IP traffic out the single port and then prevents the IP traffic from being carried on the remaining LSP(s) out the single port which avoids the packet replication on a link which is associated with the single port. If no, then the first bridge/router allows the IP traffic to be carried on the LSPs out off more than one port.

摘要翻译： 这里描述了能够避免在网络中存在故障的层2处的分组复制的桥/路由器和方法。 在一个实施例中，桥接/路由器被通知在网络内发生的故障。 然后，桥/路由器确定是否将使用多个LSP来将单个端口上的相同IP流量进行泛洪/携带。 如果是，则第一个桥接器/路由器选择其中一个LSP将IP流量从单个端口携带，然后防止IP流量在单个端口上携带，从而避免链路上的数据包复制 它与单个端口相关联。 如果否，则第一个桥接器/路由器允许在多个端口上的LSP上携带IP流量。

公开(公告)号：US20080134228A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-05

申请号：US11565570

申请日：2006-11-30

申请人： Gino Dion ,  Derek Kuhn ,  Jeff Furlong

发明人： Gino Dion ,  Derek Kuhn ,  Jeff Furlong

IPC分类号： H04H60/32

CPC分类号： H04N7/17309 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/25866 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/47815 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/4784 ,  H04N21/6125 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A system, method, and computer readable medium for customer loyalty based Internet Protocol television advertising, comprises, recording a viewership of a viewed advertisement, collecting a view time of the viewed advertisement, and crediting a viewer with having viewed the advertisement.

摘要翻译： 一种用于基于客户忠诚度的因特网协议电视广告的系统，方法和计算机可读介质，包括：记录观看广告的观看者，收集所观看的广告的观看时间，以及观看广告的观看者。

公开(公告)号：US20070098005A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-03

申请号：US11264132

申请日：2005-11-02

申请人： Jeff Furlong ,  Alistair Parker ,  Sean Higgins ,  Gino Dion

发明人： Jeff Furlong ,  Alistair Parker ,  Sean Higgins ,  Gino Dion

IPC分类号： H04J3/16

CPC分类号： H04L65/4076 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04N21/4344 ,  H04N21/4384

摘要： In a system that provides decoding of A/V streams, this invention reduces switching delays between different streams by modifying the Program Identification (PID) values of the Audio and Video data to common PID values that are already known by the decoder. This technique allows the decoder to stay in a run state when switching between A/V streams, thereby reducing channel change times.

摘要翻译： 在提供A / V流解码的系统中，本发明通过将音频和视频数据的程序识别（PID）值修改为解码器已知的公共PID值来减少不同流之间的切换延迟。 这种技术允许解码器在A / V流之间切换时保持在运行状态，从而减少信道改变时间。

公开(公告)号：US20090135852A1

公开(公告)日：2009-05-28

申请号：US11998106

申请日：2007-11-28

申请人： Gino Dion ,  Joseph Andrew MacDonald ,  Jared David McNeill

发明人： Gino Dion ,  Joseph Andrew MacDonald ,  Jared David McNeill

IPC分类号： H04J3/24

CPC分类号： H04N21/6437 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/64792 ,  H04N21/845

摘要： A computer-implemented method comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for creating an IP packet containing MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) packets therein and having a header including a value computed using a respective bit value of each one of the MPEG packets. Thereafter, an operation is performed for analyzing the computed value to determine an importance of the MPED packets relative to decoded video quality of a video stream including the MPEG packets.

摘要翻译： 计算机实现的方法包括多个操作。 执行用于创建包含MPEG（运动图像专家组）分组的IP分组的操作，并且具有包括使用每个MPEG分组的相应比特值计算的值的报头。 此后，执行用于分析计算值的操作以确定MPED分组相对于包括MPEG分组的视频流的解码视频质量的重要性。

公开(公告)号：US20070250896A1

公开(公告)日：2007-10-25

申请号：US11385735

申请日：2006-03-22

申请人： Alistair Parker ,  Jeff Furlong ,  Gino Dion ,  Sean Higgins ,  David Robinson

发明人： Alistair Parker ,  Jeff Furlong ,  Gino Dion ,  Sean Higgins ,  David Robinson

IPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N5/445 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F3/00 ,  H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04N7/163 ,  H04N5/45 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/234336 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/8153 ,  H04N21/8549

摘要： The PIP system enables display of a mosaic of favorite channels in a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) format to a subscriber terminal. Picture-in-Picture support is efficiently provided by sending only I-Frames of the secondary video channel to the end-user. That is, any unnecessary packets (null, B-P frames, audio, etc.) in the secondary video channel are stripped away. This method uses very little bandwidth and is STB agnostic.

摘要翻译： PIP系统使得能够以画中画（PIP）格式将收藏频道的马赛克显示给用户终端。 通过仅向最终用户发送次要视频频道的I帧，可以有效地提供画中画支持。 也就是说，副视频通道中的任何不必要的分组（空，B-P帧，音频等）被剥离。 该方法使用的带宽非常小，并且STB不可知。

公开(公告)号：US20060242240A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-26

申请号：US11090308

申请日：2005-03-28

申请人： Alistair Parker ,  Jeff Furlong ,  Gino Dion ,  Sean Higgins ,  Richard Bettelheim ,  Christian Boven

发明人： Alistair Parker ,  Jeff Furlong ,  Gino Dion ,  Sean Higgins ,  Richard Bettelheim ,  Christian Boven

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/6581 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/23406 ,  H04N21/2362 ,  H04N21/4384 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04N21/6408 ,  H04N21/8455

摘要： A server at the edge of a broadband network distributes multimedia content streams to clients, while ensuring that the first data delivered to each client is key data (milestones) needed for correctly decoding the stream content. This is obtained by buffering the packets in the incoming stream and transmitting the packets from the buffer in an outgoing stream, starting with the most recent milestone placed in the buffer before a request to join the respective incoming stream is received. As the writing to and reading from the buffer are performed at different rates, the incoming and outgoing streams are eventually synchronized, at which point the client may be switched to receive the incoming stream directly.

摘要翻译： 宽带网络边缘的服务器将多媒体内容流分发到客户端，同时确保传送给每个客户端的第一个数据是正确解码流内容所需的关键数据（里程碑）。 这是通过缓冲输入流中的数据包，并从输出流中的缓冲区中传送数据包，从接收到相应输入流的请求之前的缓冲区中最新的里程碑开始。 当以不同的速率执行对缓冲器的写入和读取时，输入和输出流最终被同步，在这一点上，客户端可以被直接切换以接收输入流。

公开(公告)号：US20070130597A1

公开(公告)日：2007-06-07

申请号：US11292345

申请日：2005-12-02

申请人： Alistair Parker ,  Jeff Furlong ,  Gino Dion ,  Sean Higgins

发明人： Alistair Parker ,  Jeff Furlong ,  Gino Dion ,  Sean Higgins

IPC分类号： H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04L29/06027 ,  H04H20/38 ,  H04H20/82 ,  H04H60/27 ,  H04H2201/33 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04L65/4092 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N21/21 ,  H04N21/23 ,  H04N21/23406 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/2625 ,  H04N21/6377 ,  H04N21/6408 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/6587

摘要： A circular buffer in a video delivery server tracks a second copy of a live video stream to provide instant replay capability. When an end-user initiates the instant replay function, the circular buffer is copied to an instant-replay buffer, from which a replay of the video is sent to the end-user. During replay the end-user can use playback functions such as pause, slow-play, freeze frame, etc. Upon leaving the replay function the end user rejoins the live stream. The circular buffer also enables transmission of delayed copies of the live stream, time-shifted by predetermined intervals, which copies are multicasted to end-users. Upon request, an end-user may join a delayed version of interest. This allows the user to replay interesting content by jumping to a time-delayed version without missing the show and to catch up with real-time during e.g. commercial breaks.

摘要翻译： 视频传送服务器中的循环缓冲器跟踪实时视频流的第二副本以提供即时重放功能。 当最终用户启动即时重放功能时，循环缓冲区被复制到即时重放缓冲器，从该重放缓冲区将视频的重放发送给最终用户。 在重播期间，终端用户可以使用诸如暂停，慢播，冻结帧等的播放功能。在离开重放功能时，终端用户重新加入直播流。 循环缓冲器还能够传输实时流的延迟副本，以预定间隔进行时移，哪些副本被多播给最终用户。 根据要求，最终用户可以加入感兴趣的延迟版本。 这允许用户通过跳转到时间延迟版本而重播播放有趣的内容，而不丢失节目并且在例如播放期间赶上实时。 商业休息。

公开(公告)号：US07760760B2

公开(公告)日：2010-07-20

申请号：US11998106

申请日：2007-11-28

申请人： Gino Dion ,  Joseph Andrew MacDonald ,  Jared David McNeill

发明人： Gino Dion ,  Joseph Andrew MacDonald ,  Jared David McNeill

IPC分类号： H04J3/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/6437 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/64792 ,  H04N21/845

摘要： A computer-implemented method comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for creating an IP packet containing MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) packets therein and having a header including a value computed using a respective bit value of each one of the MPEG packets. Thereafter, an operation is performed for analyzing the computed value to determine an importance of the MPED packets relative to decoded video quality of a video stream including the MPEG packets.

摘要翻译： 计算机实现的方法包括多个操作。 执行用于创建包含MPEG（运动图像专家组）分组的IP分组的操作，并且具有包括使用每个MPEG分组的相应比特值计算的值的报头。 此后，执行用于分析计算值的操作以确定MPED分组相对于包括MPEG分组的视频流的解码视频质量的重要性。