Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Data Services Inc.

Verizon Laboratories Inc.

Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (usa)

Shafiq Kassam

Enrique Ruiz-Velasco

Japan A Mehta

Shadman Zafar

Raul I Aldrey

Anil Krishna Guntupalli

Brian Frederick Roberts

Ruchir Rodrigues

Laxmi Patel

Prabhakar Mani

Diego J Crespo

Edwin Elberg

Luis R Blando

Maitreyi Krishnaswamy

Heath Stallings

Venkata S Adimatyam

Sameer Gavade

Arjun Baskaran

Nosherwan Minwalla

Liwen Yang

Aung Tun

Donald H Relyea

Don Relyea

Ashutosh K Sureka

George Masao Higa

Armando Paul Stettner

Srirama R Kalidindi

Anil Kumar Padi

Balamuralidhar Maddali

Vijay A Senthil

Raju T Ramakrishnan

Greg A Johns

Sampath Raman

Peter Joseph

Syed Mohasin Zaki

Venket Kandanala

Bradford A Jackvony

Ashish Phutela

Sudharsan Selvakumar

Shahzaib Zafar

Saleem S Mohammed

Vinod Krishnan Surianarayanan

Enrique Ruiz Velasco Fonseca

Anup Nanda

Sudarshan Selvakumar

Vadivel Mohanakrishnan

Fazil C Ummer

Mark W Phillips

Kartik Chandrasekharan

Described herein are methods and systems to dynamically generate interactive graphical interfaces. Upon receiving a selection to display an execution page, a webserver may (1) transmit a request for a user identifier and (2) transmit a request for one or more options for a user. The webserver may receive an array including one or more options and instructions to display the one or more installment options on the execution page. Upon extracting the one or more options from the array, the webserver dynamically revises the webpage with at least one interactive graphical element having a visual characteristic of the webpage. Responsive to a second selection of the at least one interactive graphical element on the webpage, the webserver displays the one or more options as selectable graphical components having the visual characteristic of the webpage.

Systems and methods for generating an execution webpage with dynamically updated customized options

A computing device may establish a connection with a user device and retrieve address book information corresponding to the user device. The address book information may include contact information corresponding to one or more individuals. The computing device may identify social network users corresponding to the address book information. Each social network user may include a subscriber to a particular network service. The computing device may create a social network based on the social network users identified.

Social network creation and interaction

Systems and methods provide an online directory service over a network. After receiving a request to view an online directory listing from a network-enabled user terminal, an online directory server may present to the user terminal a directory listing associated with an identifier of audiovisual content. In response to a selection by a user of the listing, the user terminal may provide the identifier associated with the selected directory listing to the directory server. Based on the identifier, the directory server may access the audiovisual content and provide it to the user terminal and may present it to the user in conjunction with the other information of the directory listing.

Methods and systems for an information directory providing audiovisual content

A method includes receiving a request, associated with a user profile, for an integrated video guide for a video service. The integrated video guide is time based, and the video service includes broadcast video content and video service selected video content. The video service selected video content is provided via unicast or multicast. The method includes identifying basic video channels that are provided to all subscribers of the video service, and identifying user selected channels that are provided based on the user profile. Broadcast channels that are included in the user selected channels are identified. Online channels that are included in the user selected channels are also identified. The method also includes presenting the basic video channels, the broadcast channels, and the online channels in a same manner in the integrated video guide.

Integrated video content

A content processing device is configured to store a parameter indicative of a content preference of a system user, to request and receive data relating to the stored parameter, to receive an incoming video signal, and to provide to a video display at least a portion of the video signal and a data interface including at least a subset of the data.

Interactive data widgets for video

Method, device, and storage medium to provide programs, recorded and stored in relation to a digital video recorder (DVR) service, to a mobile device. A mobile device includes a mobile DVR application that provides for the automatic downloading or streaming of the programs. A network device provides transcoding of the programs to a format compatible with the mobile device. The mobile DVR application allows the user to set preferences pertaining to the invocation and delivery of the programs.

Digital video recorder program to mobile device

A server is configured to receive information regarding a plurality of issues associated with a plurality of client devices. The server is configured further to analyze the plurality of issues. The server is configured further to generate a plurality of parameters based on analyzing the plurality of issues; and send the plurality of parameters to the plurality of client devices.

Monitoring system

Systems and methods provide personal channels from a network-capable user terminal. A first user terminal may receive a request from a second user terminal for access to a personal channel created by a user and stored on the first user terminal in association with media content. In response to the request, the first user terminal may access the media content associated with the requested personal channel and provide the media content to the first user terminal over the network. A data center accessible by both the first and second user terminals may facilitate the access to the personal channel by storing information associated with the personal channel, including terminal identifiers and metadata, and providing a searchable catalog interface to identify personal channels to view.

Personal video channels

A method includes receiving, at a set top box, an instruction or command from a user to view program listings associated with programs that were broadcast by a television service provider during a first period of time that is prior to a current time. The method also includes identifying at least one television program that was broadcast during the first period of time and that is available to the user, and outputting, by the set top box, a program guide identifying the at least one television program. The method further includes receiving, at the set top box, a selection corresponding to a first one of the at least one television program and outputting, by the set top box, the first television program.

Program guide with past history display and program selection

A network server that includes at least a processor is configured to receive, from a first network, a trigger event received in the first network from a non web-enabled device configured to communicate the trigger event to the first network, wherein the trigger event includes a designation of at least one file to be transferred. The network server is further configured to transmit a notification that includes the designation to a second network based on the trigger event, the second network being a web-enabled network communicatively coupled to at least a first web-enabled peer node that is capable of receiving the notification.

Managed peer-to-peer file sharing

A method including receiving a request to start recording a sequence of navigational inputs to be received by a user device; storing each navigational input of the sequence when each navigational input is received; receiving a request to stop recording the sequence of navigational inputs; stopping the recording of the sequence of navigational inputs; receiving an assignment of a trigger to invoke an execution of the recorded sequence of navigational inputs; storing the assignment of the trigger; identifying when the trigger is received or occurs; and executing the recorded sequence of navigational inputs on the user device based on the identifying.

Free-wheel system

An interactive program system includes a device that receives program data and Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) data associated with an interactive application; identifies the EBIF data; converts the EBIF data to a data format compatible with a user device; generates an EBIF notification based on the EBIF data; transmits the EBIF notification to the user device; and transmits the converted EBIF data to a network device. The user device communicates with the network device based on the EBIF notification and displays the converted EBIF data. The user device transmits input data to the network device and the network device provides interaction data to the device.

Interactive program system

A methods and systems are provided for presenting one or more topic specific portals. A portal may present various content relating to a common topic. The content may be episodes of a television show, movies, products, games, songs, images, and general information about the topic. The topic may be the television show, a movie studio, an actor, a company, or a particular genre or theme. A service provider may deliver the portal in an interactive programming guide sent to the set top boxes of its subscribers. The portal may be interactive such that subscribers may order or watch the content presented on the portal. A content provider may create or edit the portals and send the portals to the service provider. The delivery of the portal to the service provider by the content provider may be through an application programming interface.

Methods and systems for providing one or more topic specific portals

A method is performed by one or more devices within a closed distribution network to provide context-sensitive transactional advertisements. The method includes sending, to a video client, a trigger for initiating a context-specific transactional advertisement associated with a linear program segment and sending the linear program segment for presentation by the video client. The method also includes receiving, based on the trigger, a request from the video client for instructions for the context-specific transactional advertisement; determining, based on the request, contextual information for the linear program segment; and sending, to the video client and based on the contextual information, the instructions for the context-specific transactional advertisement.

Trigger-based transactional advertising for television

An approach is provided for the real-time creation of a menu of chapters for navigating a video program. The chaptering process creates at a dynamic chapter navigation menu that enables a user to precisely navigate within a video program by recursively creating chaptering points of finer temporal granularity for selecting a desired point within the video program.

Method and system for creating a chapter menu for a video program

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Shafiq Kassam