Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Jason R Meerbergen

Peter Rae Shintani

Thomas Patrick Dawson

Robert Hardacker

Djung N Nguyen

Behram Mario Dacosta

Leo Pedlow

Rolf Toft

Ludovic Etienne Douillet

Takaaki Ota

Edgar Allan Tu

Milton Massey Frazier

George Edward Williams

David Boyden

Takashi Hironaka

Rajesh Rao

Mark Hanson

Ian Charles Matthews

Nicholas James Colsey

Gen Tsuchikawa

Leo Mark Pedlow, Jr

Robert L Hardacker

Rajesh K Rao

George Williams

Mark A Hanson

Digital content can be sold by an original sales entity (OSE) to an affiliate sales entity (ASE) for playing of the content by the ASE. The ASE is permitted to transfer the content to another ASE, and sales credit for the secondary transfer is split between the transferring ASE and the OSE upon synchronization of a ledger of the recipient ASE with the system database.

System and method for transfer of digital media

A TV-set is equipped with HDMI and USB connections that allow it to display and run audio-video content from a variety of conventional consumer devices. The TV-set is further equipped to provide a secure HDMI-USB interface that will allow the transfer of licensed high definition content and Internet subscriber services. Such secure HDMI-USB interface also enables a selection of proprietary application modules to be attached. Downloadable user interface templates, much like XML style sheets, are rendered to a user interface displayed on the screen. These are associated with corresponding thumbnails and URI's that allow a user to surf through lists and catalogs of materials, and then to play them in the appropriate formats and provide the machine with a customized controller. A remote commander is simplified, yet expanded to control all the attached devices through interactions with the user interface. The functions of the remote commander's keys change depending on where the user is navigating and what device is being controlled, similar to so-called soft-keys.

Automatically reconfigurable multimedia system with interchangeable personality adapters

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Jason R Meerbergen