Fourthwall Media, Inc.

Fourtwall Media, Inc.

Aaron Ye

Louis P Slothouber

Jeffrey William Johnston

Allan V Kotmel, Jr

Marco J Brown

Jeffrey W Johnston

Jr Kotmel Allan V

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing companion services to customer premises equipment (CPE) using an IP-based service infrastructure. The infrastructure allows IP-enabled devices such as tablet PCs, smart phones, PDAs, and laptop computers to provide supplementary services to target systems and devices located at customer premises. Target systems and devices (CPE) may be TVs, PCs, set-top boxes, digital video recorders, or other electronics. An embodiment is disclosed which allows a mobile device to provide companion services to a television through a link with a set-top box in a cable TV network using the Internet.

Systems and methods for providing companion services to customer equipment using an IP-based infrastructure

A system for and method of enhancing video advertising with interactive content in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving non-interactive video advertisement data and advertisement order data associated with the non-interactive video advertisement data, generating interactive content data associated with the non-interactive video advertisement data, embedding, in the non-interactive video advertisement data, the interactive content data, and transmitting, to an ad server component of an ad system, the non-interactive video advertisement data and the embedded interactive content data for transmission to one or more end user devices.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for enhancing video advertising with interactive content

Disclosed are systems and methods of building a default set of parameters into a software application by defining a widget template having associated parameter schema and then instantiating a widget by substituting a new set of application parameters for the built-in defaults such that the new parameters meet the same constraints defined for the default parameters. Aspects of the invention also include testing the original application containing the default parameters, along with the parameter substitution process itself, using a Statistical Software Testing Methodology (SSTM) to ensure the application meets a pre-determined level of quality.

System and method of substituting parameter sets in self-contained mini-applications

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamically creating and inserting an application into an MPEG program transport stream. The application may be subsequently run on a customer premises equipment (CPE) device to effect switching between content streams for presentation to viewers based on other available data, such as targeting information.

Dynamic application insertion for MPEG stream switching

A system, method and software program is provided for creating and implementing self-contained mini-applications that store, retrieve and display data and allow user interaction in a constrained computing environment such as a set-top box used in the delivery of digital television. The system, method and software program of the present invention, also known as 'TV widgets' allows users to personalize data and facilitate the access of such data with a click of a button from a remote control unit. The TV widgets include a myriad of widgets of which some are, 'My 8 ball', a widget that recommends television programming to a viewer, &#x201c;My TV search&#x201d; for searching specific television programs, &#x201c;My Weather&#x201d;, &#x201c;My Yellow Pages&#x201d;, &#x201c;Smart Navigation&#x201d;, &#x201c;Instant Messaging with Smart User Interface&#x201d;, as well as others. A TV widget framework provides user interface context for launching and managing the widgets, in addition, it maintains a library code that implements the TV widget components. Among the implementations of the TV widgets is a widget based TV navigator created as a collection of widgets from conventional grid guides and navigators that include a grid guide widget, a &#x201c;what's on now&#x201d; widget (sorted by channel), a movie recommendation widget among others.

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Ashburn, VA, United States of America

Aaron Ye