Cisco Technology, Inc.

Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

Other

Ems Technologies, Inc.

Lxe, Inc.

Randolph R Beebe

Arturo A Rodriguez

Geoffrey Granville Hammett

Mark D Penk

Timothy Hall Addington

Thomas Edward Sharon

Gerald F O'Carroll, Jr

Joel Powell Cook

Teresa H Stanfield

Esteban C Madan

Geoffrey G Hammett

A recordable media content archiving system in a subscriber network. The recordable media content archiving system comprises, among other elements, a memory for storing recordable media content characterizing information, a storage device for storing a plurality of portable mediums, and a processor configured with the memory to receive the recordable media content characterizing information into the memory, wherein the processor is further configured to provide a user interface for the recordable media content archiving system.

System and method for characterization of purchasable and recordable media (PRM)

A recordable media content purchasing system comprising a memory, and a processor configured with the memory to download recordable media content at one of a plurality of various download times for purchase of the recordable media content.

Graphic user interfaces for purchasable and recordable media (PRM) downloads

In a digital network that includes a plurality of devices, which include multiple devices that transmit transport streams, a system and method are provided for discovering and mapping the transport streams and the plurality of devices included in the digital network. One such method sends a transport stream map request to a plurality of network devices. The network devices include a plurality of network transport stream sources and a plurality of network transport stream handlers. The method receives a plurality of replies to the transport stream map request. Each reply includes information associated with the respective network device. The method generates a transport stream map based on the received replies. The transport stream map represents a flow of transport streams among the plurality of network devices.

Mapping transport streams

System and method for archiving multiple downloaded recordable media content

In a digital network that includes a plurality of devices, which include multiple devices that transmit transport streams, a system and method are provided for discovering and mapping the transport streams and the plurality of devices included in the digital network. In the preferred embodiment, the system includes a controller that, among other things, receives network messages from the plurality of devices and determines or assigns transport stream identifiers in the network such that transport stream identifier conflicts do not occur. In the preferred embodiment, the plurality of devices are adapted to respond to a first message by sending a network message to the controller, and the devices are adapted to monitor their received transport stream(s) and respond to changes by sending a second network message to the controller. The network messages include a transport stream identifier, which is associated with a transport stream, and a device identifier, which is associated with the device that sent the message. The controller uses the received network messages to generate the transport stream map.

Mechanism for implementing network discovery in a cable network

A decoder checks a table within its received input signal and tunes to at least one of the listed frequencies to determine its associated service group within a subscriber television system. The associated service group associates the decoder with the modulators, transport streams, and other components providing services and programming to that particular decoder. The decoder transmits its associated service group to the subscriber television system headend. The subscriber television system then knows the services and programming available on that particular decoder. The decoder can periodically verify its associated service group and, if the service group is changed, notify the headend. By establishing decoders for auditing the system, the definition of the service groups can be established or updated when components or configurations are introduced or changed.

System and method for automatically determining service groups in a subscriber network

A media system which includes logic configured to provide a user interface that provides a user with a plurality of media content selections available at various times, and a portable client media drive configured to receive over a secured transmission medium the media content selected by the user.

Method and apparatus for recordable media content distribution

A data communications system characterized by the combination of a base station connected to a plurality of repeaters for communicating with remote terminals in response to outgoing data from a host computer and for communicating with the host computer in response to incoming data from the remote terminals. Each repeater is assigned a coverage area with in a predetermined communications area to support data communications with the remote terminals located within its coverage area. In response to incoming data, a repeater conducts a signal amplification operation and outputs amplified incoming data to the base station via a first communications link. The base station processes the amplified incoming data and, in turn, generates processed incoming data for distribution to the host computer via a second communications link. The base station also processes the outgoing data from the host computer to generate processed outgoing data, and sends transmitted outgoing data to each repeater via the first communications link. Each repeater connected to the base station can amplify the transmitted outgoing data, and outputs amplified outgoing data to the remote terminals within its coverage area.

Distributed architecture for a wireless data communications system

A hand held data entry terminal that, upon initialization of a data entry program downloaded from a host computer, is capable of capturing product data, through either a terminal scanner or a data entry keypad, at locations remote from the host computer. A data entry program is downloaded to a battery-powered data entry terminal from a central host computer via an RF data transceiver located in the terminal. If the terminal scanner is functional and the product contains the necessary coded representations of data, the scanner may be enabled, through a first trigger located on a terminal handle, to scan the coded representations of data. Alternatively, the terminal operator may enter alpha/numeric product data through the terminal keypad. The data entry program contains a stack of key definition tables for the terminal keypad, allowing the terminal to be designed with a minimum number of data entry keys and a terminal display of maximum size. If the keypad mode of data entry is used, the terminal operator may scroll through the alternate key definition tables by using certain command keys, or via a second trigger located on the terminal handle, to select the proper key definition table for a particular mode of data entry or to select a particular data entry command. Regardless of the mode of data entry used, the data entered into the terminal is stored in a buffer at the terminal. Once all data has been entered into the buffer, the processor, upon receiving a SEND command, sends the data to the host computer via the terminal RF transceiver.

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Duluth, GA, United States of America

Randolph R Beebe