Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Other

Christopher J Kennedy

John McCrea

Peter Lester

Nida Zada

Ryan King

Jason Li

Christopher Connolly

Edward David Monnerat

Mehul S Patel

Thiru Srinivasan

Jonathan Alan Leech

Nicholas Adam Pinckernell

Manoj Chaudhari

Richard Vetter

David Andrew Ohare

Paolo Barolat-Romana

Michelle Tomes

John Mccrea

Aspects of the disclosure relate to the delivery of media content over a network. Specifically, aspects are directed to identification and/or extraction of a selected data such as a video clip from content and providing identifying information to a user to retrieve, view, and/or share the selected video clip. Aspects described herein provide the ability to identify a starting point and stopping point of a video clip on a media gateway device and generate a URL that can be used and/or shared in order to access the selected video clip. The URL may identify a stored media clip, or may contain information from which a video clip can be recreated.

Data segment service

A social network content recommendation system allows users to identify friends, recommend content to friends, and receive awards for influencing friends. Internet pages can be used to display rankings of recommended programs, user profiles and their awards, and dynamic chats relating to specific programs, such as television shows.

Content recommendation system

A content recommendation system is disclosed that allows users to identify friends, recommend content to friends, and receive awards for influencing friends. Interfaces can be used to display rankings of recommended programs, user profiles and their awards, and dynamic chats relating to specific content.

An apparatus, method, and system are provided for associating or tying an audio source/content to visual/video content. A request to tie a selected audio source to visual/video content may be received. Upon receiving the request, the selected audio source may be tied to the visual/video content. Audio received from the selected audio source may be substituted for audio associated with the visual/video content. One or more synchronization techniques/methods may be used to synchronize audio content with visual/video content.

Alternate source programming

System and methods for providing a user experience are described, including a method comprising determining a location of a user and automatically selecting an interface device of a plurality of interface devices based upon the location of a user. The selected interface device can be configured to transmit audio, transmit video, receive audio, receive video, or a combination thereof. The method can also comprise automatically configuring a user experience provided via the selected interface device.

Activating devices based on user location

An apparatus, method, computer readable medium, and system are provided for associating content with a conference. A viewer of content may elect to partake in a conference and may select one or more options associated with the conference. The viewer may be authenticated and billed based on the viewer's participation in the conference. The viewer may be assigned to a conference group based on a location of the viewer and/or the viewer's selections of conference options. A lookup may be performed to determine conference parameters, comprising one or more of a terminal identifier associated with the viewer, a conference code identifier and a participant code. A conference setup message may be transmitted to one or more of a switch and a customer premise equipment device (CPE) based on the conference parameters.

Establishment of a conference

The faucet assembly of this invention has the usual water inlet and outlet lines. The novel portion of the faucet assembly is the visibly clear water conduits or tubes that are attached to the handles of the faucet assembly. These visibly clear tubes are in water flow connection with both the water inlet and outlet lines and therefore provide a way to determine most water flow problems in the assembly. In addition, these visibly clear tubes are aesthetically pleasing.

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Highlands Ranch, CA, United States of America

Christopher J Kennedy