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Rovi Technologies Corporation

Christopher Andrew Evans

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Richard Wales Stoakley

Giampiero M Sierra

Sterling M Reasor

Louis Amadio

Paul Stephen Hellyar

Scott S Hysom

Victor Tan

Scott Hanggie

Aaron B Tinling

Gregory L Raiz

Scott E Dart

Craig Adam Beilinson

Chris J Guzak

Chad Gibson

Michael A Schmidt

Pritvinath Obla

Chad C Neff

David Andrew Matthews

Praerit Garg

John E Brezak

Reiner Fink

Richard Leigh Mains

Eric R Flo

Darren Mitchell

Raymond J Chen

Ramkumar Ramasubramanian

Dennis L Davis

Christopher T Sager

Andrew G Bybee

Sara Tahir

Jason Alan Christensen

Linda I Hong

Leslie S Yeh

Marcus E Pina

John Carlton Platt

Stephan Hoefnagels

Timothy P McKee

Jason Fergus Moore

Relja Ivanovic

Alexander Vaschillo

Lyon K F Wong

Jennifer Laurie Shetterly

Kelly Elizabeth Rollin

David R Parlin

Steve Glenner

Frank Dominic Yerrace

Nathaniel Harper Ballou

Bradley Phillip Gibson

Samuel Thomas Williams

Paul Twomey

Janine Darling

Satoshi Nakajima

Jae Pum Park

Dale Alan Sather

Alexander Hopmann

Christopher Bruce Weare

John E Elsbree

Ashvin Mathew

Anthony T Chor

Benjamin L Perry

Filipe P Fortes

Jordan L K Schwartz

Jingyang Xu

Jeffrey David Henshaw

Nosherwan Minwalla

Shawn Michael Murphy

Clint C Jorgenson

Jeffrey T Pearce

Ovidiu G Temereanca

Yin Xie

Daniel Evan Socolof

Advay V Mengle

Alexander Castro

Laurel S Abbott

Wei Feng

Rajadurai Isaac Rajakumar

Harry J W Fravert

Manuel A Schröder

Ahmad H Safa

Todd Berkebile

Gregory W Raiz

Scott Jensen

Louis M Kahn

Nermin Osmanovic

Chad C Gibson

Current data archiving and storage solutions seek to store data in the most accessible manner possible, often foregoing security for sake of user convenience. The technology, system, and methods proposed in this document seek to protect data in a highly resilient, secure manner, suitable for extremely long-term periods of time without loss of data integrity. The proposed solution includes methods for storing digital data, validating the integrity of the data on both sides of the transmission, encryption with keys that only the user has access to, splitting files into obfuscated slices for increased security, and determining the most effective storage location according to a novel cost metric. Data is reduced to ephemeral 'ghost' files that remain faithful copies of the original data files, capable of being perceived by a user device, but never resident upon the device.

Data-centric interactive data security system

Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.

Persistent media playback

Current data archiving and storage solutions seek to store data in the most accessible manner possible, often foregoing security for sake of user convenience. The technology, system, and methods proposed in this document seek to protect data in a highly resilient, secure manner, suitable for extremely long-term periods of time without loss of data integrity. The proposed solution includes methods for storing digital data, validating the integrity of the data on both sides of the transmission, encryption with keys that only the user has access to, splitting files into obfuscated slices for increased security, and determining the most effective storage location according to a novel cost metric.

Data-centric secure data technology, archiving, and storage system

An application on a device includes multiple experience modules that each implement a set of features when the application is running on the device. Each of the multiple experience modules includes a first component that includes code specific to a particular type of the device, and a second component that includes code that is common across multiple types of devices. Update packages changing individual ones of the multiple experience modules can be received from a deployment service and installed on the device.

Applications including multiple experience modules

Multiple camera angles of an interactive event are simultaneously transmitted as part of a broadcast. The simultaneous distribution of multiple synchronized streams of audio and/or visual information enables switching between cameras to be made by the audience members without interruption of the presentation of the event. In one embodiment, a performance studio might send out multiple synchronized concurrent streams. For example, a performance studio might transmit four distinct camera angles or streams, each at varying quality levels, such as the illustrated high-bandwidth and low-bandwidth encodings. Selection of the stream may also direct interactive feedback portions generated by the selecting audience member towards the selected object/individual. Alternatively, interactive feedback generated by the audience member may be directed globally to the producers of the event and selectively to the performers and other audience members of the event.

Switching camera angles during interactive events

A media asset recommendation service is described. In embodiments, friends of a user are identified in a social graph that is associated with the user, and interactions with media assets by the friends of the user are compiled. Friend interaction data for each of the media assets can be determined from the media assets, the social graph, and the interactions with the media assets by the friends of the user. When a selection of one of the media assets is received from the user via a user device, the friend interaction data that is associated with the media asset selected by the user is communicated to the user device.

Media asset recommendation service

Computer system navigation tools provide 'links' to various different files, lists, folders, and/or other storage elements and allow users to organize files, e.g., by hierarchical properties, lists, auto lists, folders, and the like. Such systems and methods allow users to assign properties to a file (optionally in a hierarchical manner), to change assigned properties, to search, view, and retrieve information based on the assigned properties, and the like.

Systems, methods, and user interfaces for storing, searching, navigating, and retrieving electronic information

Focus state themeing is accomplished by separating the processing of the focus state from the processing of an operative state of a control element. The operative states of the control element are entered or exited based upon the detection of input from a user or the detection of control availability by the operating system or by an application running on the operating system. Once an operative state is determined for a control element, the focus state of the control element is detected and merged with the operative state to generate a theme state for the control element. The theme state is a combination of the operative state and the focus state. There is one combined theme state for each operative-focus combination. Various display configurations may be used to represent a control element with a combined operative-focus state. The control element is then rendered on a display based on the operative state theme and the focus state theme.

Focus state themeing

In an Item-based system, Images (e.g., JPEG, TIFF, bitmap, and so on) are treated as core platform objects ('Image Items' or, more simply, 'Images') and exist in an &#x201c;Image Schema&#x201d; that provides an extensible representation of an Image in the system&#x2014;that is, the characteristics of an Image and how that Image relates to other Items (including but not limited to other Images) in the system. To this end, the Image Schema defines the properties, behaviors, and relationships for Images in the system, and the Schema also enforces rules about Images, for example, what data specific Images must contain, what data specific Images may optionally contain, how specific Images can be extended, and so on and so forth.

Systems and methods for the implementation of a digital images schema for organizing units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system

This invention is directed to provide a method for enabling an administrator to monitor and selectively limit the computer functions available to a user. The method is carried out on a personal computer by an administrator, and administrator decisions can be enforced on other personal computers in a local network. The invention enables an administrator to restrict a user's logon hours, logon duration, access to computer functions, and access to applications based on content rating. In addition, the administrator may temporarily restrict or extend normally allowed access privileges. The invention also allows for the monitoring, auditing, and reporting of a user's computer function usage to an administrator.

User controls for a computer

A system and method for presenting images and related items to a user. A digital image from a data store is assessed, and a portion of the image is defined as a region of interest. Properties are associated with this defined region, and these properties are utilized to infer relationships between the region of interest and related items in the data store. Optionally, a user input indicating a desire to view related content may be received and such content may be presented to the user.

System and method for storing and presenting images and related items to a user

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Christopher Andrew Evans