Method and apparatus for switching between presentations of two media items

JH Arrasvuori, AJ Eronen… - US Patent App. 13 …, 2013 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0001 Service providers and device manufacturers (eg, wireless, cellular,
etc.) are continually challenged to deliver value and convenience to consumers by, for …

Systems, methods, and devices for customizing content-access lists

S Swix, W Matz - US Patent App. 11/241,681, 2006 - Google Patents
Systems, methods, and computer program products describe customizing the presentation
of a content-acceSS list based on Subscriber-specific information, Such as historic viewing …

Methods and apparatuses for facilitating content navigation

J Nikara, M Pesonen, E Aho, T Aarnio - US Patent App. 12/868,235, 2012 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0002 The modern communications era has brought about a tremendous
expansion of wireline and wireless networks. Wireless and mobile networking technologies …

Content exchange system

R Anglin - US Patent App. 11/318,427, 2007 - Google Patents
The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for providing more content choices
to a user (14) independent of their geography. In one embodiment of the invention, a user …

Method and apparatus for delivering and displaying information for a multi-layer user interface

D Gordon, S Bayrakeri, J Comito - US Patent App. 09/729,660, 2002 - Google Patents
Techniques for transmitting multiple" slices of information for a particular location of a user
interface, which can be used to present more information to a viewer for a limited Size …

Streaming video bookmarks

T McGee, L Agnihotri, N Dimitrova… - US Patent 7,143,353, 2006 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, apparatus and systems for bookmarking an area of interest of
stored video content is provided. As a viewer is watching a video and finds an area of …

Reducing channel change delays

JP Hearn, KN Matthews, LJY Wu - US Patent 8,516,531, 2013 - Google Patents
Technology which facilitates a reduction in time of the pre sentation of video content after a
viewer changes channels is described. Frames of a video stream associated with a channel …

Methods and apparatus for presenting substitute content in an audio/video stream using text data

SM Casagrande, DA Kummer - US Patent 8,156,520, 2012 - Google Patents
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Generating additional content

Z Bar-Yossef, D Kadouch, M Levin… - US Patent App. 13 …, 2016 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer pro grams encoded on a computer
storage medium, for generating additional content. In one aspect, a method includes identi …

Adaptive advertising apparatus and methods

RF Gazdzinski - US Patent 8,078,473, 2011 - Google Patents
Int. Cl. An adaptive advertising apparatus and associated methods. In GOL 5/00(2006.01)
one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer read (52) US Cl......... r 704/275; …