The present technology concerns cell phones and similar devices, and their use in
conjunction with media content (electronic and physical) and other systems (eg, televisions …

4,633,331 4,665,431 4,697,209 4,706,121 4,739,398 4,755,889 4,760,442 4,761,694
4,789,961 4,805,217 4,816,905 4,833,710 4,876,670 4,888,769 4,891,715 4,897,867 …

6,353,672 B1 3, 2002 Rhoads 6.829, 368 B2 12/2004 Meyer et al. 6,363,159 B1 3, 2002
Rhoads 6,850,626 B2 2/2005 Rhoads et al. 6,381,341 B1 4/2002 Rhoads 6,879,701 B1 …

In a content delivery client device, real-time dynamic content insertion into digital content
may be performed by scanning the digital content by the client device, prior to rendering the …

(57) ABSTRACT A media broadcast and distribution system is disclosed which Substitutes
storage for communications, allowing more effi cient use of scarce bandwidth resources …

BACKGROUND The approaches described in this section are approaches that could be
pursued, but not necessarily approaches that have been previously conceived or pursued …

Manipulator (MM) configured cooperate to receive client requests for secondary content,
select one or more secondary content elements (eg, advertisements), and generate and …

BACKGROUND With the advent of portable digital media players of small form factor, there
is a challenge in limiting the hardware button set to a useful and usable set. Typically, media …

Disclosed herein is a terminal apparatus including an extraction portion configured to extract
from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of the …

Connection-based/offer licenses to various electronic for sale. A seller places his license for
a particular content up for sale on the central server where a buyer that is interested in the …