Grischa Corporation

Hewlett-packard Company

Verifone Gmbh

Thomson Licensing

Rehle Visual Communications LLC

Respondtv, Inc.

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Jay C Weber

Todd Loren Lash

Glenn A Kramer

David H Kaiser

David A Berger

Suzanne Stefanac

Prasad Panchangam

Kevin T B Rowney

Atul Arora

Vilas I Madapurmath

Daniel Salo

Caius Van Nouhuys

Todd Lash

A method and apparatus for presenting enhanced video at multiple presentment devices are disclosed. The video signal is received to be displayed at a variety of presentment devices. The presentment devices that are capable of displaying the video signal are identified and the video signal is transmitted to the identified presentment devices.

Implementing ETV with multiple presentment, response and communication techniques

Disclosed are server features for allowing a client user to defer completion of multi-step user transaction applications ('MUTAs') and later resume the MUTA. One disclosed feature is providing a selectable deferral action in a page implementing part of the MUTA, e.g., HTML, XML, JavaScript/ECMA Script document. If the client user selects to defer completion, a state object is created by the server and stores state information including information previously entered during the MUTA. The server provides a resumption object to the user including a resource for resuming the deferred MUTA. When the user selects the resource, state information stored in the state object is loaded and the use may complete the remainder of the MUTA. An additionally disclosed aspect is automatic state saving where sate information is stored automatically during multiple steps in the MUTA; the user then need not select deferral.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for deferred completion of multi-step user transaction applications

Disclosed is a system for selective modification of transport data for enhanced video content. Video transport data is received in a video signal or an external source and a configurable processor uses criteria to selectively modify units of the video transport data. Disclosed criteria included a rule based pattern matching/replacement as well as criteria for denial, acceptance, or modification of particular units of video transport data. The modified video transport data stream created by the processor can be re-encoded in the video signal and provided to an external monitor.

Method and system for video enhancement transport alteration

A method and apparatus for enhanced video signal processing are described. An enhanced video signal is received. A plurality of metadata describing the enhanced video signal are generated and processed. A channel for transmission of the enhanced video signal to a plurality of viewers is determined.

Enhanced television metadata processor for efficient broadcast operations

Disclosed is a system for improving server efficiency by caching intermediate states encountered in generating responses to requests. The results of a mapping from an external name for a resource to an internal name for the resource may be cached as may the response header lines, or the body of the response message. In another disclosed aspect, candidates for intermediate state caching are selected from plain and small files. When the resource involves the product of an executable, another aspect involves delaying parsing request headers until necessary and then only parsing the headers required for generating the response.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for efficient server response generation using intermediate state caching

Disclosed are methods for reducing the number of &ldquo;pages&rdquo;, e.g. HTML, JavaScript/ECMA Script, or XML documents or the like, in forms-based transaction applications. One disclosed method involves using dynamic contents documents such as JavaServer pages that include a list of required fields for completion of a transaction. When the transaction initiates the dynamic contents document interacts with a server process to determine if sufficient values for the required form fields are already available, for instance, from a user profile or previous transaction. If so, these values can be used. If, for one or more pages, a form field value is not available, these and only these pages are provided to the user; the others are suppressed. In another aspect, rather than having an ordered set of predetermined pages some of which can be suppressed, just in time pagination is obtained by determining which fields lack sufficient field values, a priori. These field values are placed in pages as they are located and the pages provided to the user when they reach a suitable size. With just in time pagination, those and only those form fields for which user data input is needed can be split into pages suitable for viewing on the user's client platform and provided to the user.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for automatic page suppression in forms

Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production. According to the disclosure a method for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production, said method includes (1) communicating a video production to a reproducing apparatus, said video production comprising a placement zone and a trigger zone at least partially coincident with said placement zone, wherein said trigger zone comprises a trigger resource identifier, and wherein said placement zone comprises an image referencing a product; (2) communicating to said reproducing apparatus an indication that an action selection interface associated with said product is available in response to a request corresponding to said trigger; and (3) communicating to said reproducing apparatus a characterization of said action selection interface, wherein said action selection interface comprises a selectable action. An apparatus according to the invention may include a server programmed to interact and provide action resources to. A system according to the disclosure may include the facility communicating the video production to the reproducing apparatus which sends a request to the server which provides action resources.

Method, system, and apparatus for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production

Disclosed are a method apparatus and system for providing addressed network content in connection with a video production. A disclosed method includes receiving a first request from a reproducing apparatus, for example a set-top box, the first request having been extracted from a video production communicated to the reproducing apparatus; determining a second resource identifier responsive to the first request and redirecting the first request wherein a response is provided to the reproducing apparatus. A resource identifier used in the first request is an 'indexical' resource identifier in that it specifies a path to be used by a server that is independent (or substantially independent) of content received in response to providing a request to the resource identifier. Determining a second resource identifier may involve creating a resource identifier that includes one or more parameter-parameter value pairs. An apparatus according to the invention may be a server or other computer programmed to handle the indexical request and provide response content. A system according to the disclosure may include the server and a facility for communicating the video production. Additionally disclosed aspects include a method for creating a video production that includes indexical resource identifiers and a method and system for encoding one or more series of resource identifiers in a video production.

System for indexical triggers in enhanced video productions by redirecting request to newly generated URI based on extracted parameter of first URI

A system for management of communications bandwidth utilization is disclosed in which delays are deliberately introduced when responding to requests for resources. Appropriately introducing delays can disperse the peak bandwidth consumption event over a longer period, however peak bandwidth utilization is decreased when responding to numerous substantially simultaneous requests. The deliberately introduced delays can be generated in a range bounded above by an acceptable response time (&ldquo;ART&rdquo;). The ART may be communicated to a server as part of the request, for instance in the 'port' or 'path' portion of a URI.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for server bandwidth utilization management

In one embodiment, an architecture that consummates an electronic transaction between a first electronic device, such as an acquirer device, a second electronic device, such as an issuer device, and a plurality of electronic terminals, such as merchant terminals, by establishing a communication between the plurality of devices and terminals and accumulating transactions that are approved by the second electronic device. Then, periodically the plurality of transactions are settled using a transfer of monetary value between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. For example, the present invention uses electronic cash transfer to replace conventional settlement, which requires the use of a third-party settlement service.

Settlement of aggregated electronic transactions over a network

Secure transmission of data is provided between a plurality of computer systems over a public communication system, such as the Internet. Secure transmission of data is provided from a customer computer system to a merchant computer system, and for the further secure transmission of payment information regarding a payment instrument from the merchant computer system to a payment gateway computer system. The payment gateway system evaluates the payment information and returns a level of authorization of credit via a secure transmission to the merchant which is communicated to the customer by the merchant. The merchant can then determine whether to accept the payment instrument tendered or deny credit and require another payment instrument. An architecture that provides support for additional message types that are not SET compliant is provided by a preferred embodiment of the invention. A server communicating bidirectionally with a gateway is disclosed. The server communicates to the gateway over a first communication link, over which all service requests are initiated by the server. The gateway uses a second communication link to send service signals to the server. In response to the service signals, the server initiates transactions to the gateway or presents information on an a display device.

System, method and article of manufacture for exchanging software and configuration data over a multichannel, extensible, flexible architecture

A server communicates bidirectionally with a gateway over a first communication link, over which service requests flow to the server for one or more merchants and/or consumers. Service requests are associated with a particular merchant based on storefront visited by a consumer or credentials presented by a merchant. Service requests result in merchant specific transactions that are transmitted to the gateway for further processing on existing host applications.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Jay C Weber