146 results about "Internet multimedia" patented technology

A system and a method render internet multimedia content in a network using an application to render the internet multimedia content and / or locally stored multimedia content on one or more rendering devices in the network. The application may provide web browser functions, such as, for example, receiving, processing, decoding and / or rendering the internet multimedia content. The application may have an enhanced user interface which may enable a user to select the internet multimedia content and a rendering device in the network, send the internet multimedia content to the rendering device and / or control rendering of the internet multimedia content on the rendering device.

At least first and second potential viewers deliver their personal demographic informations to a processing system (Internet processing server). Viewing information concerning their television or computer multimedia viewing habits are entered automatically from their respective viewing stations into the processing system. From this demographic and viewing information, the processing system determines pursuant to pre-determined criteria incorporated into processing system software the desired sponsored video message (advertisement), which is played when that viewer views multimedia at his / her viewing station. In other words, the video advertisements shown are selected for the individual viewer, and this determination is a dynamic determination based at least in part on the most recent viewing behavior of that viewer. The message can be pre-cached at the viewing station and shown when the multimedia content is not “available” for viewing at the station, and particularly when an initial portion of the multimedia content is being downloaded for later presentation at the station. Additionally, from all of the information delivered to the processing system, valuable viewer / viewing information can be processed and made available to a recipient.

A method for provisioning, registering and authenticating a mobile phone on a basestation is provided. The method includes receiving an addition request for the addition of a mobile station to a basestation authorization record via an interface. The method continues with creating an entry for the mobile station, where the entry includes mobile station information, and receiving a registration request including request information from the mobile station to register to receive basestation based services via the associated internet multimedia subsystem network. The method also includes authorizing registration on the IMS network based at least in part on the request information.

A routing technique for supporting an internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Subscriber Locator Function (SLF) is provided. It is, in part, based on using a user's identification information, e.g. a user's realm, to facilitate the routing of information. This technique enables the implementation of a distributed subscriber location function (SLF) in an IMS network. The subscriber locator function (SLF) ultimately allows for accommodation of more users through multiple home subscriber service (HSS) elements.

The present invention relates to a device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The network communication device includes a universal plug and play (UPnP) interface and an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) interface. Circuitry is communicatively coupled to the UPnP interface and the IMS interface, wherein the circuitry associates an UPnP session key with an associated electronic equipment for allowing communication between the one or more associated devices and the associated electronic equipment.

Internet content is coordinated with audio communications, such that two or more parties can view the same media content on the Internet while simultaneously communicating over a traditional telephony network or via voice over network. A user computer displays shared content that corresponds to a second computer's display, such that both parties view the same content on their browsers. Either of the parties is allowed to update the visual content of their browsers. Updates in the visual content are transmitted to the other parties so that all parties view the same, shared content. The shared content can include web pages, forms, applications, images, conferences, and files among other information.

The invention provides a method and system for sharing webpage or multimedia information. The method comprises the following steps: a user clicks a sharing button or menu in an internet webpage by, or executes a sharing button or menu in a web browser; the web browser opens a webpage sharing management interface provided by a sharing management network server, the user edits one or more than one friend receiving addresses in the webpage sharing management interface, and selects or inputs message waiting; and if the user selects to submit, the sharing management network server receives submitted webpage address uniform resource locator (URL) containing the internet webpage, message waiting from a sending party and receiving address information, and then sends sharing information containing the webpage address URL and the message waiting from the sending party to the receiving addresses, thus providing convenient sharing services of webpage or internet multimedia messaging for mobile internet users, thereby promoting the development of mobile internet businesses and strengthening entertainment features of internet.

A personal versatile recorder can be connected to, or integrated in, a cable television set-top terminal. The personal versatile recorder includes a central processing unit and a hard drive for mass data storage. Preferably, the personal versatile recorder has a tuner or tuners for receiving one or more transport streams from the cable system as well as analog or digital audiovisual programming. The data transport stream may encompass internet multimedia web content and associated applications to he utilized by the personal versatile recorder, Under instructions of the viewer or the agent application the central processing unit controls and facilitates various functions such as encoding, transcoding, decoding, caching, storing, playback and retrieval of any type of data or data file on the hard drive including compressed audiovisual programming content, streamed multimedia cached content, picture files, video files, audio files, HTML files, etc. for a variety of applications as described.

A method for providing multimedia and a multimedia apparatus applying the same. The method for providing multimedia includes searching for content related to keywords and generating channels to provide the content found as a result of searching. Therefore, it is possible for a user to more conveniently use Internet multimedia content using a TV.

A method of operating a cellular wireless network comprises broadcasting information about Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) emergency call capability of the network on a broadcast channel in a cell of the network. This information may in one method concern the IMS emergency call capability of a base station included in the network and in another method it may include IMS emergency call capability of a base station and the core network.

The invention relates to the field of internet techniques and multimedia, and provides a multi-screen interaction method and system based on the Web. The method includes the steps of logging on, wherein a user logs on a plurality of intelligent terminals at the same time and chooses to operate an application of any one of the intelligent terminals, correlating other terminals, wherein a service end responds to a Weboscket handshaking request of any one of the intelligent terminals which the user logs on, and correlates any one of the intelligent terminals with other intelligent terminals which the user logs on, communicating, wherein communication connection is built between any one of the intelligent terminals and other intelligent terminals so that switching and transmission of interconnection and interoperation signaling among the multiple intelligent terminals can be achieved, and responding, wherein other intelligent terminals respond to the operation signaling of any one of the intelligent terminals. Therefore, interconnection and interaction of various terminal devices of the user are achieved through the Internet without being limited by distance and hardware matching, the user can operate conveniently, and experience of the user for Internet multimedia services is greatly improved.

A system and a method render internet multimedia content in a network using an application to render the internet multimedia content and / or locally stored multimedia content on one or more rendering devices in the network. The application may provide web browser functions, such as, for example, receiving, processing, decoding and / or rendering the internet multimedia content. The application may have an enhanced user interface which may enable a user to select the internet multimedia content and a rendering device in the network, send the internet multimedia content to the rendering device and / or control rendering of the internet multimedia content on the rendering device.

The invention discloses an on-line collaborative nolinear editing system belonging to the technical field of Internet media information processing. The on-line collaborative nolinear editing system comprises a manufacture team management module, a material management module, a timeline operation module, a material previewing module, a user operation management module and a collaborative manufacture management module. Edition operation for respective video of each person is shared by the on-line collaborative nolinear editing system to realize the on-line collaborative nolinear edition system for more people, the efficiency on collaborative edition manufacture of the on-line video program is improved, and the collaborative edition manufacture for more people under different environments can be realized.

The invention is applied to the field of Internet multimedia and provides a preloading method and device for the network video playing of terminal equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) downloading a first video file to be played currently to a primary video loading buffer, and decoding and then playing the downloaded first video file; (2) selecting a second video file to be played next, and downloading the second video file to a secondary video loading buffer; and (3) recording the downloading speed of the first video file in a timing manner, counting the jamming / pausing condition of the playing of the first video file, and judging whether to further preload the second video file or not through judging whether the preloading conditions are met.

Architecture is provided for selecting an ad insertion system / server from a plurality of ad insertion systems / server for receiving broadcast transmissions and inserted advertisements. A gateway, as part of the architecture, selects an ad insertion system, in accordance with a developed client profile and a network factor associated with the communication performance of the ad insertion system. The gateway associates the developed profile with a client, and the gateway receives information relating the network factor from at least one ad insertion system. The gateway also ascertains the casting services (IP multicasting, IP multicasting proxy, and IP unicasting) supported by client. The ad insertion system may use the information about the supported casting services, with a developed client profile and a network factor for selecting an ad insertion system.

The embodiment of the invention provides a multimedia file recommendation method and device and relates to the field of Internet multimedia. According to the multimedia file recommendation method and device, first parameters of all multimedia files are counted and updated in different periods of time to increase the success rate of multimedia file recommendation. The multimedia file recommendation method comprises the steps that a multimedia file searching request from electronic equipment is received, wherein the multimedia file searching request contains multimedia file searching condition information and request time; multimedia files which are matched with the multimedia file searching request are obtained from a media resource bank according to the multimedia file searching condition information; whether the number of the multimedia files is larger than N is judged, wherein N is an integer which is equal to or larger than one; the first parameters of the multimedia files are searched for during a preset period of time which corresponds to the request time if yes; the weights of the found multimedia files are determined according to the first parameters of the multimedia files; the found multimedia files are arranged based on a preset rule according to the weights of the found multimedia files and then are output to the electronic equipment.

Methods and apparatus for allowing a caller on a telephone network to establish an internet co-socket. In a first embodiment, a protocol stack establishes an Internet connection over a public switched telephone network (PSTN) link and then operates and maintains the Internet connection on a second link. Internet socket establishment is initiated with a caller-ID packet so the distant end may pick up with an Internet form instead of a interactive voice response system (IVR). This allows the caller to interact with a graphical form instead of a voice prompt, and provides new methods of operation for web call-back systems for call centers. The invention also enables mixed PSTN / internet multimedia telephone calls. In an exemplary embodiment, when a point-to-point telephone PSTN connection is established, a screen of information automatically appears at both ends via the Internet. This allows users who have computers connected to an internet to easily mix PSTN calling with internet services.

An architecture for inserting listener targeted advertisements into Internet retransmission of terrestrial radio broadcasts is provided. An Internet server provides aggregation of a plurality of radio broadcast programming for dissemination over the Internet to a plurality of listeners / users. Each Internet provided radio broadcast includes advertisements targeted for each individual listener / user based on a demographics profile. The demographics profile for each listener / user provides a basis for the targeted advertisements. A readily scaleable architecture is capable of supporting rapid growth in listeners / users. Scheduling data is used to predict and prestage advertising content. Timestamping of the radio broadcast aids in calculating where in the broadcast data sequence to pick up after an advertisement. Scalability is preferably achieved by a multiplexer in order to support large numbers of listener connections for streaming audio.

Cable / satellite / Internet-ready television providing surround-sound, purchase-payment, and multimedia capabilities. A satellite access card slot, a wireless communication system for transmitting signals to and from a remote control device, and a surround-sound control panel are integrated into the television cabinet. A credit / debit card reader is incorporated within the cabinet or remote control device.

The invention relates to a method and a device for a media playing terminal to obtain the internet multimedia resource. The method comprises the following steps: reading the structure of the corresponding directory of the internet multimedia resource according to a set internet multimedia resource address; establishing a virtual USB disk file system according to the structure of the corresponding directory of the internet multimedia resource; and processing the request of the media playing terminal for accessing the internet multimedia resource according to the virtual USB disk file system. The virtual USB disk file system is established according to the structure of the corresponding directory of the internet multimedia resource, and the access of the media playing terminal to the internet multimedia resource is realized through a USB interface, thus the media playing terminal can access to the internet multimedia resource like accessing a local memory device without being changed or upgraded.

There is described an improved application programming interface (API) to control media resources in numerous Internet multimedia applications. The API is independent of the application itself and the media resources underneath. For the purposes of description, the API is called a multimedia subsystem (MSS) interface.

This invention provides a method to interpret and recognize huma faces. The 2nd-order eigenfeatures are used for lighting-invariant face description and both the 1st-order and 2nd-order eigenfeatures are used for view-angle-invariant face description. After normalization and quantization, these features can describe face effectively and efficiently. In order to further reduce the size of face descriptor, variable length code can be used to encode the quantized eigenfeatures. This invention can be used in internet multimedia database retrieval, digital library, video editing, surveillance and tracking, and other applications using face recognition and verification.

The embodiment of the invention provides a multimedia file playing method and a player, and relates to the field of Internet multimedia. A multimedia file with copyright protection can be watched by paying bills, and then the interaction capacity between a terminal and a user is improved. The multimedia file playing method includes the steps that the player obtains a multimedia file playing request, obtains a multimedia file corresponding to the multimedia file playing request according to the multimedia file playing request, judges whether the multimedia file corresponding to the multimedia file playing request is a multimedia file with copyright protection or not, obtains permission information of a current user if the multimedia file is the multimedia file with copyright protection, and then plays the multimedia file according the permission information of the current user and the preset rule, wherein the permission information of the current user comprises the types of multimedia files which are allowed to be watched by the current user.

The invention discloses a method and system for achieving HLS channel time-shifting playing and relates to the field of Internet multimedia. The method comprises the steps that a server reserves fragments in a time-shifting range; when a client carries out time-shifting operation, a client side computes time difference according to current time and a time-shifting time point, a new URL is generated to be sent to the server; the server analyzes time difference and computes the fragments which need to be played, new m3u8 files are organized to be sent to the client side; the client side requests fragment playing in sequence, when playing of all of the fragments is about to finish, the former URL is used for requesting new m3u8 files; the server analyzes time difference and computes the sequence numbers of the fragments which need to be played, new m3u8 files are organized to be sent to the client side; after the client side receives the new m3u8 files, which fragment needs to be played is computed, then the client side requests playing in sequence; the client side requests new m3u8 files in a periodic mode. According to the method and system, time-shifting playing of an HLS channel can be achieved, and user experience is improved.

The invention provides a starting delaying algorithm for a streaming media live broadcasting system, relates to the field of the streaming media live broadcasting on internet, and aims to solve the starting delaying problem of a client of an internet streaming media live broadcasting system. Following the development of an internet multimedia technique, an internet streaming media technique is more and more widely applied, but the advantages of the streaming media technique cannot be completely utilized because of the limitation on present network bandwidth and speed. The invention provides three dynamic starting delaying strategies, namely, a dynamic starting delaying strategy for gapping a density according to the broadcasting, a dynamic starting delaying strategy according to a network condition and a mixed type dynamic starting delaying strategy. According to a test result, the working effects and performance comparison of the three starting delaying strategies applied to the streaming media live broadcasting system are observed. According to the invention, the dynamic starting delaying strategies are combined with the streaming media technique, thereby achieving the purposes of reducing the frequency of interrupting the broadcasting at a terminal, ensuring the smooth broadcasting and protecting the sensory experience of a user.

The embodiment of the invention provides an advertisement insertion method and a player, and relates to the field of Internet multimedia, wherein advertisement insertion is achieved. The method includes the steps that the player obtains a suspending instruction and records the current playing schedule of the video; the player sends an advertisement playing instruction to an advertisement plug-in so that the advertisement plug-in can load and play an advertisement to be played; when obtaining a playing starting instruction, the player removes the advertisement to be played; the player plays the video from the current playing schedule.

The invention provides an HLS content source returning and caching realization method, and relates to the technical field of internet multimedia. In the HLS content source returning and caching realization method, after a caching server receives an HLS content request sent by a client-terminal, a session object is allocated for the client-terminal and unique identification is generated; if the HLS content is locally cached, current and subsequent requests are directly responded, and if the HLS content is not cached, the caching server requests to a source station for all the index files of the HLS content, and addresses are modified; and after media fragment requests sent by the client-terminal each time are received, the caching server requests to the corresponding source station to return the media fragment of the time to the client-terminal and continuously store the media fragment of the time in a large file according to the sequence of the index files until all the media fragments are stored. The client-terminal behavior can be completely tracked, adaptability of the source returning process is high, efficiency of butting with the source station is high, and storage and utilization efficiency and disk throughput are high.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of internet multimedia, and provides a method, device and equipment for playing internet videos. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring an online equipment list, wherein the online equipment list comprises play equipment which can communicate with mobile equipment through an interconnection-intercommunication protocol at present; detecting an internet video play link selected by a user, and detecting the play equipment selected from the online equipment list by the user; and transmitting the internet video play link to the play equipment according to the interconnection-intercommunication protocol so as to perform online play of the internet video. The method, the device and the equipment for playing the internet video are implemented based on an interconnection-intercommunication protocol stack in intelligent equipment, and good platform openness of the intelligent equipment and good operability of the mobile equipment during the access to a traditional web page are used for assisting the play equipment to realize convenient and fast browsing, selection and play of the internet videos.

A device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The network communication device includes a universal plug and play (UPnP) interface and an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) interface. Circuitry is communicatively coupled to the UPnP interface and the IMS interface, wherein the circuitry associates an UPnP session key with an associated electronic equipment for allowing communication between the one or more associated devices and the associated electronic equipment.