Thomson Licensing

Sony United Kingdom Limited

Other

Sony Corporation

Yiming Zhou

Richard James Humpleman

Isaac Bentolila

Labeeb K Ismail

Isaac (Ariel) Bentolila

Kenneth A Klarfeld

Mark John McGrath

Manu Mehta

Amar Gogoi

Vincent Carl Harradine

Ariel S Bentolila

Santosh Godbole

Yunis Mustafa

Oleg Larin

Ismail K Labeeb

Victor Matveev

Sunil Miryala

Isaac Labeeb Ismail

A Personal TV System receives a plurality of video segments constituting a TV program and information describing each segment, and controls the display of the segments to a viewer in accordance with preferences of the viewer and with the description of each segment. Segments may be omitted or replaced with substitute segments. The viewer may review his preferences and edit or replace them. In a multi-viewer household, the system may prompt a viewer to confirm her preferences. A TV program may contain interactive segments, and when the viewer chooses to interact with a particular segment, the system automatically stores all subsequently received segments for later viewing while the viewer interacts with the selected segment. The system may present TV program choices to the viewer selected and arranged in accordance with her preferences.

System and method for personalized TV

The method and system for TV user profile data prediction and modeling allows accurate and narrowly focused behavioral clustering. A client-side system classifies television consumers into representative user profiles. The profiles target individual user advertising and program preference category groups. A contextual behavioral profiling system determines the user's monitor behavior and content preferences, and the system may be continually updated with user information. A behavioral model database is queried by various system modules. The programming, including targeted advertising for television and interactive television is based on the profile data prediction, modeling and preference determination. The system is enabled to present a complete program sequence to the viewer based on the preference determination and stored programming. The latter is referred to as automatic program sequence (virtual channel) creation and the virtual channel can be presented as a separate channel in an electronic programming guide (EPG).

System, method, and software application for targeted advertising via behavioral model clustering, and preference programming based on behavioral model clusters

A method for displaying a TV program to a viewer, comprising receiving a plurality of TV programs, allowing the viewer to select one of the plurality of received TV programs for viewing, and responding to the viewer selection by controlling the programming displayed to the viewer in accordance with the viewer selection and with previously determined viewing preferences of the viewer. Controlling the programming displayed to the viewer may include displaying the viewer selected program and additional programs selected in accordance with the previously determined viewing preferences of the viewer. The additional programs may include advertisements.

Method and apparatus for delivery of television programs and targeted de-coupled advertising

System and method for behavioral model clustering in television usage, targeted advertising via model clustering, and preference programming based on behavioral model clusters

A station for a network apparatus, which includes interconnected by a communication link, includes a network connection; a self assessment module operable to determine a current status of the station including a measure of the stations available resources; a trust list that includes a station identifier for each other station which is designated as trusted to perform tasks for the station; and a broadcast unit operable to transmit service requests to the network. The service requests are directed to each other station in the trust list and request each other station to perform a task. The station also includes an answer unit operable to receive service requests from the network and transmit an acceptance or refusal message in response to the service request. The acceptance or refusal is decided based on the current status of the station as determined by the self assessment module.

Distributed service provider

An editing system has a video store for storing a video sequence and a text store for storing a sequence of text associated with the video sequence. Displays and are provided for displaying the video and the text on the text display. The current text position is indicated by a cursoror by another marker. The frames of the video sequence have time codes associated therewith. Corresponding time codes are associated with the text using the time codes and the rate n of reading words:&#x2014; The current position in the text is controllable in dependence on the time code of the video frames; and the video frame currently displayed is controllable in dependence upon the current position in the text.

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