Apple Inc.

Harmonic, Inc.

Ilan Ben-Zeev

Noam Koren

Martin Raptis Picco

Guy Piekarz

Raz Nitzan

Tomer Y Doron

Guo Feng Huang

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device stores metadata associated with a content item, the metadata including first metadata from a first source and second metadata from a second source. Both the first and second metadata are associated with a particular attribute of the content item. Based on the first and second metadata, preferred metadata is generated for a particular attribute of the content item.

Generating preferred metadata for content items

Roughly described, a system and method for delivering video content to a user's client device in a video-on-demand (VOD) system, which includes providing a collection of video segments, the segments having a predefined default sequence; establishing a streaming video session according to a session-oriented protocol; transmitting toward the client device a script executable by the client device, the script operable to transmit navigational codes toward the head-end equipment in response to and indicating user selection among navigational choices; beginning transmission of the video segments in the collection toward the client device in accordance with the default sequence of segments; and in response to receipt of one of the navigational codes, and without tearing down the streaming video session, altering the transmission sequence to jump to the segment that the user selected.

Browsing and viewing video assets using TV set-top box

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Ilan Ben-Zeev