Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC

Polaris Industries Inc.

Time Warner Cable Inc.

Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc.

Other

Aol Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc.

Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.p.

Nikko Materials Usa, Inc.

John Callahan

John B Carlucci

Stephen L Maynard

Louis Dew Williamson

David J Koenig

Joseph D Tharaldson

Joseph G Buehl

William C Fisher

Adam C Koosmann

Daren W Herman

Todd L Frostad

Christopher G Wolf

Kim A Weckert

Vipul B Patel

Erik Gwyn Urdang

Thomas L Gonder

David M Kimble

Gary L Gustafson

Craig Mahonchak

Tho Autruong

Steven Ernest Riedl

Tom Gonder

Jay Thomas

Nicholas Nielsen

James A Chiddix

Bryan Santangelo

Hugh Josephs

Thomas R Schleicher

Vitaly Shoykhet

R Gary Diaz

Jed A Reed

Benjamin L Payne

Joseph M Hassell

Karla J Towne

Ben Payne

Steven James Johnson

Michael M Song

Michael T Hayashi

Gregory C Brew

Garth H Bracy

Stephen G Crain

Jiangtao Wang

Robert Benya

Steven A Johnson

Kevin J Leddy

Dan Lillie

David McElhatten

Marc J Apfelbaum

Gary L Gustafon

Jonathan P Oakden-Graus

David Mcelhatten

An interactive system for use in connection with recreational vehicle usage includes a server system, including an off-road trail database containing trail data, trail condition information, and points-of-interest information, as well as a trip mapping system accessible by any of a plurality of riders, allowing a rider to create a route based on the data in the off-road trip database. The server system further includes a trail maintenance interface accessible by users affiliated with an authorized group to edit the trail data, trail condition information, and points-of-interest information associated with the authorized group. The server system includes a location data management system configured to receive location data, allowing a rider to publish location information to one or more other riders, and a user feedback interface configured to receive trip data from riders for publication, including information describing an actual route and user data associated with that route.

Recreational vehicle interactive telemetry, mapping, and trip planning system

Recreational vehicle interactive telemetry, mapping and trip planning system

Methods and apparatus for performing dynamic compensation for delays over extant infrastructure within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable network, and the infrastructure comprises that nominally used for on-demand (OD) services such as VOD. The method includes periodically or situationally assessing variable delays within the system associated with functional commands (such as 'trick mode' commands), and dynamically compensating for these variable delays in order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the user's trick mode command. This approach increases user satisfaction, and obviates the issuance of additional compensatory trick mode commands that only further degrade the performance of the network.

Methods and apparatus for variable delay compensation in networks

Segmentation messages indicative of locations of upcoming events, such as the start and end of programs and program portions, and/or rights related to the programs and program portions, are used by cable systems and the like to store programs and program portions for later retrieval and transmission to customers on request. Storage, retrieval and management of programming is thereby facilitated. Methods and systems are disclosed.

Program storage, retrieval and management based on segmentation messages

A resident application and a second application are provided in a set-top terminal to receive a TV broadcast service and network personal video recorder (NPVR) service, respectively. The resident application is suspended in favor of the second application when a user changes from a broadcast channel to an NPVR enabled channel, and vice versa. In an embodiment where a digital video recorder (DVR) set-top terminal is used, a DVR server therein provides trick mode functions (pause, rewind and fast-forward) before an NPVR session, e.g., a Look Back session, is established. In another embodiment, during an NPVR session the DVR server plays back recorded programming content downloaded from a communications network, and provides trick mode functions as well.

Technique for delivering network personal video recorder service and broadcast programming service over a communications network

A method of providing programming content from a video server to a client coupled to the video server by a video content network includes the steps of sending, to the client, a playlist describing an interrelationship between at least one program segment and at least one related segment; sending, from the video server to the client over the video content network, video content comprising the at least one program segment and the at least one related segment; and modifying the playlist via communication to the client. The steps of sending the playlist, sending the content, and modifying the playlist are all accomplished within a single video-on-demand session per user.

Apparatus and method for video-on-demand playlist

Methods and apparatus for delivering data over extant infrastructure within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable network, and the infrastructure comprises that nominally used for on-demand (OD) services such as VOD. The method includes the allocation of dedicated end-to-end network resources via a 'session request, as well as data flow control and packet size adaptation, by a data server based on feedback from the requesting/receiving client device (e.g., DSTB) within the network. Mechanisms for retransmission requests for error recovery are also provided.

Method and apparatus for high bandwidth data transmission in content delivery networks

Technique for delivering network personal video recorder service and broadcast programming service over communications network

Growing community of inventors

Broomfield, CO, United States of America

John Callahan