At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr

Maria Adamczyk

Nicholas Steven Huslak

Robert A Koch

Thomas Arnold Anschutz

Edgar Vaughan Shrum, Jr

Scott Crandall Holt

Alan Blackburn

Jeffrey Patrick Cassanova

Scott Traynham Stillman

Li Zhang

Sammie Walter Hill

Walter Cooper Chastain

Steven Alan Siegel

Steven Allan Wright

Leopold B Strahs

Siroos K Afshar

Robert V Epley

Karen M McCourt

Xiaofeng Gao

Darryl Cynthia Moore

Sharon Evelyn Carter

Steven Allen Wright

Linda Ann Roberts

A method of operating a data network may include establishing a data path through the data network between a routing gateway and service provider equipment providing a data service. Moreover, the data service may be provided for use at the routing gateway over the data path during a data session. A request may be received from the service provider equipment where the request defines a data flow characteristic for the data path between the routing gateway and the service provider equipment providing the data service. The data flow characteristic may then be transmitted to a network element along the data path between the routing gateway and the service provider equipment. A request from service provider equipment can include an allowed bandwidth or prioritization. Related methods, data networks, data service providers, routing gateways, and computer program products are also discussed.

Methods of implementing dynamic quality of service or bandwidth provisioning

Digital media is distributed via the Internet to a subscriber using a device. The digital media may have an access restriction mechanism to prevent or reduce premature or unauthorized access by the client device.

Methods, systems, and products for streaming media

Methods, systems, devices, and products provide sample content. A stream of data is sent that specifies samples of content available for a preview. A user, via a device, makes a selection from the stream of data. A filtered stream of data is sent that specifies remaining samples of content associated with the selection. Any of the remaining samples of content are thus available for the preview.

Samples of content in streaming environments

A method of providing augmented Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation can include detecting movement of a GPS enabled mobile device along a navigational route and displaying a photographic image on a display of the GPS enabled mobile device responsive to detecting movement of the GPS enabled mobile device along the navigational route provided by the GPS enabled mobile device. Related devices and computer program products are also disclosed.

Methods, devices, and computer program products for geo-tagged photographic image augmented files

Methods, systems, and products self-identify an electronic device to a remote control. The remote control queries the electronic device, and the electronic device sends a response. A collision avoidance mechanism allows difference devices to respond to the remote control.

Methods, systems, and products for discovering electronic devices

Methods, systems, and products index digital scenes in digital media. A uniform resource locator is assigned to each different digital scene within the digital media. The uniform resource locator uniquely identifies a resource from which each different digital scene may be retrieved. Individual scenes may thus be retrieved, thus conserving bandwidth and memory.

Methods, systems, and products for indexing scenes in digital media

Digital media is distributed to a list of subscriber addresses. The digital media is stored in a memory of a client device that is dedicated to content offered by a producer.

Methods, systems, and products for distributing digital media

Methods, systems, devices, and products provide sample content. One such device includes a processor that receives an electronic programming guide including a listing of available content. The processor also receives an ancillary stream of including samples of content listed in the electronic programming guide. The processor receives a subscriber input that selects a particular content from the electronic programming guide. The processor filters unselected samples of content from the ancillary stream of data to produce a sample of the selected particular content. The processor processes the sample as a video signal, thus producing a preview of the selected particular content.

Methods, systems, and products for providing sample content

Methods for proactively offering a network turbo boost service to consumers including receiving a set of one or more turbo boost triggering criteria associated with a user. A network is monitored for a task that meets at least one of the turbo boost triggering criteria. If the monitoring results in locating a task that meets at least one of the turbo boost triggering criteria, then the network turbo boost service is invoked for the task.

Methods, systems and computer program products for proactively offering a network turbo boost service to end users

Providing uniform universal remote configuration is described herein. In different aspects, the techniques may include sending an identification (ID) request to a remote control and receiving an ID response from the remote control in response to the ID request. The ID response may be used to configure a device to process a plurality of control signals from the remote control.

Uniform universal remote configuration

Methods, systems, and products self-identify an electronic device to a remote control. The remote control queries the electronic device, and the electronic device sends a response. A collision avoidance mechanism is invoked to determine if the response self-identified the electronic device.

Providing personal multi-device nomadic media is described herein. In different aspects, the techniques may include providing content to a user on a first device and suspending the delivery of the content on the first device. The user may register on a second device and resume delivery of the suspended content on the second device.

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Berkeley Lake, GA, United States of America

Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr