Qualcomm Incorporated

Technicolor Digital Cinema LLC

Jason A Reich

Douglas Marion Crockett

Jesse Hose

Steven Allan Morley

Michael Mitrani

Devarshi P Shah

Juan Faus

Scott T Swazey

Zhiheng Mao

Ethan M Idenmill

A system and method enable a wireless device to support simultaneously multiple push-to-talk (PTT) communications and interrupt certain PTT communication with higher priority ones. A user subscribes to multiple PTT communication groups and designates one of the groups as the primary group. The wireless device receives and plays PTT communications from the multiple PTT communication groups and interrupts playing of a PTT communication from a non-primary group if a PTT communication is received from the primary PTT communication group.

System and method for multiple simultaneous communication groups in a wireless system

Embodiment methods and systems enable a broadcast network, such as a MediaFLO network, to maintain the presentation quality of video data received from content providers when transforming it to a format suitable for broadcasting to mobile devices. Methods enable encoding of H.264 frames received from a third-party encoder into superframes for broadcast over MediaFLO FLO TV&#xae;. The methods group individual image frames together into superframes for broadcast, making allowances for frames which are supposed to be decoded in one second but presented or displayed in a subsequent second. The various embodiments ensure that image frames are group together into superframe so that frames that are supposed to be presented together in the same second are displayed together and so that frames that are dependent on those frames for decoding are not put ahead of the frames from which they depend.

Method and system for organizing broadcast content

In a digital cinema system, a method for creating a playlist is claimed. At least one image program and at least one audio program is displayed. Each image program comprises encoded data representing image information, and each audio program comprising encoded data representing audio information. Responsive to image programs and audio programs being specified, compatibility of selected image programs and selected audio programs is verifying.

Apparatus and method for building a playlist

The invention provides a method of storing trailer data and feature data on at least one storage medium. The method includes the steps of partitioning each storage medium into first portions and second portions. The compressed trailer data is stored onto at least one of the first portions. The compressed feature data is stored onto at least one of the second portions.

Apparatus and method for space allocation of image and audio information

In a digital cinema system comprising a decoder and an auditorium manager, where the auditorium manager configured to sequence the presentation of scheduled programs, a method of cueing a theatre automation system is claimed. A cue command is received from the decoder. The cue command is configured to a format acceptable by the theatre automation system. The cue command is then relayed to the theatre automation system.

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Jason A Reich