United Video Properties, Inc.

Rovi Guides, Inc.

Level 3 Communications, LLC

Douglas E Naufel

David M Berezowski

Timothy B Demers

Franklin E Boyer

Robert H McCoy

Bruce A Blackwell

Eric Cockrell

Alan K Roper

James T Buckley

Robert A Wallis

Edward R Andes

Harlan Ford

Steven P Reiser

Jon R Braunsma

Ronald R Russell

Donald C Kern

Pamela S Klich

Terry J Kroh

Randall C Lievsay

Steven M Rdzak

Patrick Michael Conroy

Jay Miller

Edward C Ericson

John Andrew Huth

Chris Swift

Multimedia distribution and broadcast systems and related processes are provided for transmitting multimedia contents and control information from a central uplink facility to a remote downlink via a satellite. The system is preferably implemented in order to generate sequences of multimedia that are broadcast from the remote downlink facility to viewers. The display arrangements of the multimedia sequences are varied and customized by each downlink facility using the control information in order to better inform and entertain viewers.

System and method for distributing and broadcasting multimedia

A method for managing a business process in an enterprise includes executing a business process model, wherein executing the business process model comprises generating a plurality of business level messages associated with business level tasks, generating one or more system level messages associated with system level tasks to be performed by one or more enterprise subsystems, wherein the one or more system level messages are in a common format that is accessible by the one or more enterprise subsystems, and broadcasting the one or more system level messages over a communication channel communicably coupling the plurality of enterprise subsystems. A system includes a communication channel carrying system level messages in a generic format, a plurality of business subsystems communicably coupled to the communication channel, adapters operable to translate messages from the generic format into associated business subsystem specific formats and vice versa.

Systems and methods for managing business processes in an enterprise

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Douglas E Naufel