AU2001259558A1 - System and method for broadcasting information in a television distribution system - Google Patents

System and method for broadcasting information in a television distribution system

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AU2001259558A1
AU2001259558A1 AU2001259558A AU5955801A AU2001259558A1 AU 2001259558 A1 AU2001259558 A1 AU 2001259558A1 AU 2001259558 A AU2001259558 A AU 2001259558A AU 5955801 A AU5955801 A AU 5955801A AU 2001259558 A1 AU2001259558 A1 AU 2001259558A1
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Prior art keywords
television distribution
broadcasting information
distribution system
broadcasting
television
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AU2001259558A
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Joseph E. Augenbraun
Errol J. D'souza
Randell Edward Jesup
Michael Mathiesen
Bruce Plotnick
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Worldgate Service Inc
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Worldgate Service Inc
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    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/262—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists
    • H04N21/26291—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client
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    • H04N21/266—Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
    • H04N21/2665—Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
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    • H04N21/85—Assembly of content; Generation of multimedia applications
    • H04N21/858—Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
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    • H04N7/00—Television systems
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    • H04N7/162—Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing
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