At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Gary Lee Zamchick

David Crawford Gibbon

Behzad Shahraray

Lee Begeja

Bernard S Renger

Zhu Liu

Robert Edward Markowitz

Kenneth Mervin Huber

The invention relates to a method and system for automatically identifying video content within source video and transmitting the video content to an electronic mail client. The transmitted video content can be streaming video, video files, and/or other medium derived from the source video. An enhanced electronic mail client is also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for automatically converting source video into electronic mail messages

A method and system for embedding information into streaming media is disclosed. In order to avoid a prolonged waiting period between the time a video stream is selected for viewing and the time it actually begins to play, information relevant to the content of the video stream is independently obtained and locally stored. This information may be advertising, text, games or any other media which may be of interest to the user. The information is embedded into the video or other media stream to be presented to the viewer and played immediately, so that the user avoids any wait time in viewing the selected stream that may occur due to bandwidth shortages or other system considerations.

Method and system for embedding information into streaming media

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Gary Lee Zamchick