Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Thamilenthi Palanivelu

Arunkumar Surulinathan

Poothabalan Somasundaram

Sundar Sivaraman

Ganesh Ramasamy

KrishnaKumar Sundaram

Pradeep Felix

NarayanaDhoss Gopalakrishnan

Maria M Sagayaraj

Saravanan Vijayakumar

Rajeswaran Venugopal

Ravi Chandra Appasani

Manjunathan Ramanathan

A system and method are presented for navigating through image frames of video content to display particular frames of the video content while the video content continues to play. The system provides a viewer the ability to interact with and operate a device playing video content using touch input or input from a peripheral device to permit locating and displaying particular frames of video content concurrently with ongoing display of the video content.

Method and system for navigating video to an instant time

A system may include a set-top box, associated with a customer premises, configured to receive a television signal and provide the television signal to a television and a home monitoring device configured to obtain a weather forecast for a geographic area associated with the customer premises, determine a thermostat setting for the customer premises based on the obtained weather forecast, and provide a recommendation about the determined thermostat setting to the set-top box. The set-top box may be further configured to present the recommendation about the determined thermostat setting via the television; receive a selection of the determined thermostat setting; and provide an indication of the selection to the home monitoring device; and the home monitoring device may be further configured to apply the determined thermostat setting to a thermostat controller associated with the customer premises, in response to receiving the indication from the set-top box.

Home monitoring settings based on weather forecast

A system may include a set-top box configured to receive a television signal and provide the television signal to a media playing device, and a home monitoring device configured to obtain a video recording using a security camera, provide the video recording to a media manager device across a network, and provide information about the video recording to the set-top box. The set-top box may be further configured to provide the information about the video recording upon activation of the set-top box by a customer, receive a request to view the video recording from the customer, retrieve the video recording from the media manager device, and provide the video recording to a media playing device.

Home monitoring enhancements

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Thamilenthi Palanivelu