Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Concurrent Computer Corporation

7thstreet.com, Inc.

James Wesley Bell

Yongjun Wu

Avinash Priya Khurana

Benjamin Raphael Forman

Trent M Wyatt

Douglas W Gillespie

French E Hickman

David Leon Ray

George D Grayson

Methods and apparatus are described for delivering streams of media content in ways that maintain compatibility among different streaming protocols for inserting secondary content into the streams of media content. This is accomplished by encoding media content the same for each streaming protocol but generating different output groups based on each streaming protocol.

Management of SCTE and contents in ad breaks for compatibility

An intermediate server () is operable in a distributed key management system (). The intermediate server comprises one or more processors () and an intermediate key material repository () to store digital rights management key material. The intermediate server can be operable in the system between a master server () and a local server (), with the local server to deliver content () to one or more subscriber devices (). The intermediate server, or optionally a management system () can pre-populate the intermediate key material repository with one or key material () corresponding to fragments () of the content prior to the fragments of content being requested by the one or more subscriber devices.

Hierarchical key management system for digital rights management and associated methods

Electronic conferencing is provide over a computer network, such as the Internet, by passing streams of text with embedded explicit audio and graphics commands. Text is translated to audible speech at the end-user computers by a text-to-speech processor to reduce the amount of data transferred between computers. Implicit commands are generated from the text at the end-user computers as the audible speech is generated. Implicit command may control, for example, the animation of lips to provide a realistic image of the words of the text being spoken. Explicit commands can be used to control the voice characteristics by the text-to-speech processor or to control animation.

Network conference system using limited bandwidth to generate locally

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Plano, TX, United States of America

James Wesley Bell