Tvworks, LLC

Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

David De Andrade

John Carney

Samuel Moreau

Ranjit Sahota

Georgia Gibbs

Mark O Knowles

Donald Ahrens

Matt Marenghi

Viva Chu

Greg Thomson

David Brandyberry

Lena Chane

Alex Chung

Sithampara Babu Niranjan

Leon Franzen

Ruth Dawson

Prakash Hegde

Tyson Singer

Srikanth Ganapavarapu

Michael J Cook

Mark A Vickers

Labeeb K Ismail

John G Leddy

John Jason Brzozowski

Patrick G Ladd

Elliot Poger

Glenn A Adams

Don Ahrnes

Connie Mace

Prakash Hedge

Systems and methods for providing one or more secure services are disclosed. One method can comprise authenticating and/or authorizing a user device to receive a security token. A request for information can be processed using the security token to facilitate the secure provision of services to the user device.

Systems and methods for providing secure services

A system may receive application data in a client-incompatible format and convert at least a portion of the application data into an alternate client-compatible format. In one example, the incompatible format may comprise Enhanced Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) while a client-compatible format may include a web format such as JavaScript, XML or HTML. Interactions (e.g., commands and user input) associated with the application may be received and converted. The interactions may then be processed using the application.

Application support for network devices

iTV content is created and deployed using a server component adapted to allow content developers to create applications according to an authoring specification that describes a framework for same; a transport component configured to optimize and deliver the applications to one or more clients; and a client component adapted to render the applications through a television so as to permit user interaction therewith. The authoring specification provides for the presentation of content through one or more templates defined therein, allowing application definition and behavior to remain common across multiple client device types, middleware platforms, and/or iTV operating environments. The framework for applications accommodates advertising, promotions, content placement packages and/or programming campaign definitions, so as to permit a selection of a specific advertisement, promotion or content at a time of preparation of the iTV content by the server, and/or a time of execution of the applications by the client.

System and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV content

A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further include managed content relevant to the designated category, where desired. Such designated categories may include television programming categories and/or content categories. The options for linear and non-linear programming may be presented together within a single screen of the user interface.

Causing display of user-selectable content types

A user interface by which network operators, programmers, broadcasters and advertisers can deploy and make accessible libraries of available content and allow viewers of iTV services to customize the presentation and content of the information being presented thereto includes one or more screens each having one or more navigable and selectable elements through which the viewers are permitted to customize presentation and content of iTV application environments other than those associated with the user interface.

User customization of user interfaces for interactive television

A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms.

Management of pre-loaded content

System and method for blending linear content, non-linear content, or managed content

A method and system are disclosed for automatic insertion of interactive television (TV) triggers into a broadcast data stream. The automatic insertion of the Interactive TV trigger can be based on recognition of one or more elements within the broadcast data stream. In particular, a recognized element can trigger the insertion of the interactive TV trigger into the broadcast data stream. Furthermore, the interactive TV trigger can be pre-inserted into the stored broadcast content having the recognized element prior to being broadcast.

Method and system for automatic insertion of interactive TV triggers into a broadcast data stream

iTV content is created and deployed using a server component adapted to allow content developers to create applications according to an authoring specification that describes a framework for same; a transport component including an operator-deployed application management system configured to optimize and deliver the applications to one or more clients; and a client component adapted to render the applications through a television so as to permit user interaction therewith. The authoring specification provides for the presentation of content through one or more templates defined therein, allowing application definition and behavior to remain common across multiple client device types, middleware platforms, and/or iTV operating environments. The framework for applications accommodates advertising, promotions, content placement packages and/or programming campaign definitions, so as to permit a selection of a specific advertisement, promotion or content at a time of preparation of the iTV content by the server, and/or a time of execution of the applications by the client.

Preferred placement of programming content is provided by a system and method to organize or sequence the display of a set of programmable content elements of an iTV application to a viewer, using business rules that describe the preferred placement conditions or criteria. Such criteria include brand, content owner, application location, current channel, current channel family, current channel category, time of day, content category, current program, current program genre, current iTV application, current content type, and/or subscriber and set-top box profile and behavior data. In one implementation, the present invention allows for managing the 'shelf space' within and for iTV applications.

Prioritized placement of content elements for iTV application

System and method for blending linear content, non-linear content or managed content

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San Anselmo, CA, United States of America

David De Andrade