Dish Technologies L.l.c.

Dish Digital L.l.c.

Echostar Technologies Corporation

Echostar Advanced Technologies L.l.c.

Geraint Jenkin

Marcus C Liassides

Jayne L Gilmour

Christopher G Hooks

David F Evans

David J Evans

A virtual set-top box (vSTB) for executing a middleware component on an electronic device emulating hardware capabilities of the physical STB, including providing management components to create an STB execution environment to process streaming video media content received over a connection for presenting the content on a display of the electronic device.

Virtual set-top box

A virtual set-top box (vSTB) for executing a middleware component, designed originally for use with the physical STB, including emulating hardware capabilities of the physical STB to process IPTV content received over a connection for presenting the IPTV content on a display of the electronic device.

Virtual set-top box that executes service provider middleware

A Dynamic Video Source Selection (DVSS) component that can be implemented in a physical or virtual STB that is capable of presenting a high quality service and consistent navigational paradigm to the viewer, while detecting, selecting, and presenting the best quality programming possible based upon the current position of the viewer's device within the network.

Dynamic video source selection for providing the best quality programming

Virtual set-top box that emulates processing of IPTV video content

Growing community of inventors

Pencoed, United Kingdom

Geraint Jenkin