Thomson Licensing

Ashwin Kashyap

Saurabh Mathur

Dekai Li

Hang Liu

Mingquan Wu

Zhigang Zhang

Xiaojun Ma

Jun Gu

A home network system that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site external to the network. The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user and a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.

Personalization of information content by monitoring network traffic

A home network system that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site external to the network. The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.

A method and system for eliminating redundant connections, including transmitting a request to merge two connections, terminating a first portion of a first connection, terminating a first portion of a second connection, and merging a second portion of each of the first and second connections, are described. A method and system for merging connections, including receiving a request to merge two connections, terminating a first portion of a first connection, terminating a first portion of a second connection, and merging a second portion of each of the first and second connections.

Method for eliminating redundant connections

A system for program information discovery is described. A method and a device for generating and inserting a watermark for such program information discovery into a program signal to be rendered are disclosed, along with the corresponding method and device for watermark detection and decoding from the rendered program signals. Watermark, which carries channel/program information, is encoded and embedded at the set top box where the program streams are received and decoded for rendering. Second screen devices are employed for watermark detection and decoding by capturing the render program signals which has the watermark embedded. The extracted watermark information may be sent to information servers for more detailed channel/program information.

System and method for automatic content program discovery

A method is described including requesting content from a directory service, receiving a list of peers in a peer-to-peer network having the requested content, selecting a peer from the received list of peers, establishing communications with the selected peer, receiving a list of chunks of content and ads available from the selected peer, requesting a chunk of content and ads available from said selected peer and receiving the chunk of content and randomly selected ads from the selected peer. Also described is a method including receiving a request for content, generating a list of chunks of content available for the requested content, generating a list of ads associated with the requested content, transmitting the list of available chunks of content responsive to the request, receiving a request for a selected chunk of content and transmitting the selected chunk of content and ads associated with the selected chunk of content.

Targeted advertising in a peer-to-peer network

There are provided a method and apparatus for synchronizing a plurality of media streams that use Forward Error Correction. The apparatus includes a memory device (), a FEC encoder (), and a control device (). The memory device () is for buffering the plurality of media streams. The FEC encoder () is for generating FEC packets for streams. The control device () is for determining, for each stream, a respective threshold amount of buffer to be filled in order to initiate generation of the corresponding FEC packets, and upon a fastest one of the streams filling the respective threshold amount of buffer, causing an initiation of the generation of the FEC packets for the fastest stream, as well as for the other streams, irrespective of a current fill amount of the other streams, wherein said control device causes the initiation of the generation of the FEC packets by the FEC encoder via signaling.

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Ashwin Kashyap