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AU2001257510A1 - System and method to control and distribute processing and memory resources among applications in a television terminal - Google Patents

System and method to control and distribute processing and memory resources among applications in a television terminal

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AU2001257510A1
AU2001257510A1 AU2001257510A AU5751001A AU2001257510A1 AU 2001257510 A1 AU2001257510 A1 AU 2001257510A1 AU 2001257510 A AU2001257510 A AU 2001257510A AU 5751001 A AU5751001 A AU 5751001A AU 2001257510 A1 AU2001257510 A1 AU 2001257510A1
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applications
control
memory resources
television terminal
distribute processing
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Abandoned
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AU2001257510A
Inventor
George Edward Breen
Ayisha Mertens
Bruce Plotnick
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Worldgate Service Inc
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Worldgate Service Inc
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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
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    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/438—Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving encoded video stream packets from an IP network
    • H04N21/4382—Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation
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    • H04N21/443—OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
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    • 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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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/81—Monomedia components thereof
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    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17309—Transmission or handling of upstream communications
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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Software Systems (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Business, Economics & Management (AREA)
  • Marketing (AREA)
  • Stored Programmes (AREA)
  • Two-Way Televisions, Distribution Of Moving Picture Or The Like (AREA)
AU2001257510A 2000-05-03 2001-05-03 System and method to control and distribute processing and memory resources among applications in a television terminal Abandoned AU2001257510A1 (en)

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US20151200P 2000-05-03 2000-05-03
US60201512 2000-05-03
PCT/US2001/014300 WO2001084824A2 (en) 2000-05-03 2001-05-03 Television terminal for processing and controlling memory resources for plural applications

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