Iii Holdings 2, LLC

Packetvideo Corporation

Seagate Technology Incorporated

Rockwell Science Center, Inc.

Osama Al-Shaykh

Ralph Neff

Greg Sherwood

Rick Evan Schwartz

Mark Banham

Magdalena Leuca Espelien

James J Kosmach

Cheuk L Chan

Richard June

Eva MacKay

Ajay Rajagopal Iyer

Russell Hayashida

Giri Anantharaman

Jiangtao Wen

James C Brailean

Iole Moccagatta

Krisda Lengwehasatit

A system and a method use an application on a mobile device to transfer internet media content to a rendering device in a home network. The application may use an HTML rendering engine to display a web page to a user of the mobile device, and the web page may have controls for accessing the internet media content. The application may receive a user interaction signal which may indicate that a user invoked one of the controls for accessing the internet media content. In response, the application may initiate transfer of the internet media content to the rendering device in the home network and/or may queue the internet media content for later playback using the rendering device.

System and method for using an application on a mobile device to transfer internet media content

A system and a method transmit data in a first codec from a first terminal to a second terminal. The first terminal establishes a connection with the second terminal and/or transmits, transfers and/or sends the data to the second terminal via the connection between the first terminal and the second terminal. The connection between the first terminal and the second terminal has a first channel and/or a second channel to transmit the data from the first terminal to the second terminal. The first terminal transmits the data in a first codec to the second terminal via the first channel and/or the second channel of the connection without receiving capabilities of and/or intentions from the second terminal. The second terminal may be incapable of receiving, of processing, of accepting and/or of displaying the data in the first codec. The capabilities of and/or the intentions from the second terminal is transmitted to the first terminal via the connection. The first terminal switches the data from the first codec to the second codec and/or transmits the data in the second codec to the second terminal via the connection between the first terminal and the second terminal.

System and method for transferring data

A system and a method render internet multimedia content in a network using an application to render the internet multimedia content and/or locally stored multimedia content on one or more rendering devices in the network. The application may provide web browser functions, such as, for example, receiving, processing, decoding and/or rendering the internet multimedia content. The application may have an enhanced user interface which may enable a user to select the internet multimedia content and a rendering device in the network, send the internet multimedia content to the rendering device and/or control rendering of the internet multimedia content on the rendering device.

System and method for managing and/or rendering internet multimedia content in a network

A system and a method reformat digital broadcast multimedia for a mobile device. The system and the method reformat and/or repackage audiovisual content into a format that may be rendered on the mobile device without the need for additional custom software on the mobile device. The system and the method reformat incoming mobile broadcast audiovisual content into 3GPP Progressive Download format in real time while simultaneously delivering a resulting 3GPP Progressive Download file to the mobile device for rendering.

System and method for reformatting digital broadcast multimedia for a mobile device

A system and a method transfer multiple data channels between a server and a terminal via a stream session over a network. The system and the method utilize a bitstream switching, a fast buffer filling and/or a fast playback start to facilitate a switch from a first data channel and a second data channel. The first data channel and/or the second data channel is delivered to and/or is transferred to the terminal from the server over the network via a streaming session. The server transfers second data of the second data channel to the terminal via one or more tracks which are encoded at more than one bitrate and/or are configured in one or more configurations. The terminal requests a change between the first track and/or the second track without terminating the stream session for the first data channel between the terminal and the server. As a result, the system and/or the method minimizes the delay period of time between requesting the switch to the second data channel and displaying the second data channel.

System and method for transferring multiple data channels

A method and apparatus automatically manipulates a digitally compressed video bitstream such that the result is compatible with different bandwidth and error resilience requirements at a receiving point in a heterogeneous communication network. The method and device provide for analysis of bitstream header information to determine its relevant coding syntax parameters. Feedback from the receiving point on the network is then used to identify error robustness requirements for an intermediate bitstream. The bitstream is then manipulated by an error robustness regulator to achieve error protection in the network. The bitrate requirements of the network establish a selection of relevant and irrelevant bits from the bitstream The present method and device include identification of irrelevant and low priority video bits; intentional introduction of packet losses to reduce bitrate while maintaining visual quality; use of replacement tags for irrelevant and low priority components of the bitstream for compatible decoding by a wide array of decoders; and insertion of resynchronization tags and translation of predictively coded video packet bits for the improvement of error resilience.

Method and device for control and compatible delivery of digitally compressed visual data in a heterogeneous communication network

A packetization method and packet structure improve the robustness of a bitstream generated when a still image is decomposed with a wavelet transform. The wavelet coefficients of one &ldquo;texture unit&rdquo; are scanned and coded in accordance with a chosen scanning method to produce a bitstream. The bitstreams for an integral number of texture units are assembled into a packet, each of which includes a packet header. Each packet header includes a resynchronization marker to enable a decoder to resynchronize with the bitstream if synchronization is lost, and an index number which absolutely identifies one of the texture units in the packet to enable a decoder to associate following packets with their correct position in the wavelet transform domain. The header information enables a channel error to be localized to a particular packet, preventing the effects of the error from propagating beyond packet boundaries. The invention is applicable to the pending MPEG-4 and JPEG-2000 image compression standards.

Error resilient still image packetization method and packet structure

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Osama Al-Shaykh