Dialogic Corporation

Intel Corporation

Other

Chris A Hamilton

Nicholas Zwick

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Bill Tiso

New forms of entertainment can result from this method of selecting, identifying, and storing by a media producer of multi-media content as files to a storage medium within an editing platform. Generating, using an editing software program, a set of instructions and data for assembly of an edited program, the edited program including specified segments from the files of the multi-media content. Assembling the specified segments using the set of instructions and data to form the edited program. Storing the edited program on the editing platform. Analyzing, using a software program, endpoint frames of each segment in the edited program, the analysis resulting in analysis data stored on the editing platform. Distributing the information to a home media server. Emulating assembly of the edited program by the home media server using the information and a home media server editing program, the assembled edited program being stored in the home media server.

Home media server control

A home media server includes a processor, a storage medium; and machine-readable code, stored on the non-transitory storage medium, the non-transitory storage medium includes instructions which when executed, cause the home media server to receive downloadable instructions, an edited set of data and analysis data. The downloadable instructions, when executed by the processor cause the home media server to search for and obtain media content associated with an edited video program. The instructions also cause the home media server to receive the edited set of data corresponding to editing steps for assembly of the edited video program, and to emulate assembly of the edited video program utilizing the media content obtained by the home media server to created an emulated video program.

A communications server increases the value of cable and communication services by enabling the integration of packet network content with directed advertising in a managed environment. Such services may include Video On Demand and videoconferencing running on a Converged Communication Platform. Content processing within the server enables the combining of streaming content with different types of ads. Content integration is controlled through software negotiations between subscriber, advertiser, and content provider software agents. The rate, selection, placement, and number of advertisements within a television program or videoconference can also be determined. The ability to custom tailor content and advertisements increases the value of advertising, lowers costs to subscribers, improves the viewing experience, and disburdens transaction participants from the manual tasks that would otherwise be required during transaction setup.

Converged communication server with transaction management

Method of home media server control

A video conferencing system employs a plurality of video conferencing stations, each of which includes a voice activity detector. When the images of remote conferees are displayed on a video conference station, the voice activity detection is utilized in order to designate which remote speaker is presently speaking.

Control of video conferencing using activity detection

An improved video conferencing system utilizes IP addresses received over a data network in order to determine whether other conferee terminals should receive video, audio, or both.

Control of internet based video conferencing

An improved video conferencing system debundles the audio and the video and allows for a user to select which other conference stations will receive audio, which will receive video and which will receive both.

Video conferencing system

A video conferencing system which allows the various conferees to control the signals received by one or more particular other conferees in the conference. Voice activation or motion detection or other techniques may be utilized to implement such control.

Automatic control of video conference membership

A technique for minimizing the number of users which must dial training digits in a voice processing system. The system uses the first digit normally dialed as part of the user responses to the voice processing application, and measures such digit to determine whether it and future digits can be detected accurately without the use of a training digit. If they can, no training digit is required. If they can't, then a training digit is required, and the user is prompted for the same.

Method and apparatus for determining digits dialed using a selected

An improved voice processing system is described which utilizes caller ID information, or portions thereof, in order to change processing parameters utilized by the voice processing system to process future signals received during a telephone call.

Use of caller ID information

A technique for utilization of call processing resources in a call processing system is disclosed wherein echo characteristics of a telephone line ascertained and utilized by a echo canceler, and are also stored for subsequent use by a different echo canceler which processes a call on that same telephone line. The technique may also be used with call processing resources other than echo cancelers.

Call processing using previously obtained line characteristics

A technique for allocating resources in a call processing system is disclosed whereby different levels of resources are allocated depending upon the available headroom in the system. The technique allows advanced and better performing signal processing methods to be used when the system is relatively idle, and acceptable but less robust algorithms to be used when system loading is heavy.

Growing community of inventors

Montclair, NJ, United States of America

Chris A Hamilton