| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40538 |
Downloading of applications in a digital decoder |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method for downloading an executable application into a decoder for a digital broadcast system, characterized in that the application is stored on a portable memory card introduced into a card reader in the decoder, the decoder reading and downloading the application from the card. Dat |
| D566714 |
Cartridge for camera |
April 15, 2008 |
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| D556728 |
Telephone |
December 4, 2007 |
|
| D542281 |
Universal remote control |
May 8, 2007 |
|
| D537805 |
Cordless telephone |
March 6, 2007 |
|
| D537041 |
Surge protector |
February 20, 2007 |
|
| D537040 |
Surge protector |
February 20, 2007 |
|
| D535969 |
Cordless telephone |
January 30, 2007 |
|
| D532751 |
Surge protector |
November 28, 2006 |
|
| D528538 |
Flexible antenna |
September 19, 2006 |
|
| D528509 |
Surge protector |
September 19, 2006 |
|
| D527370 |
Cordless telephone |
August 29, 2006 |
|
| D525964 |
Audio/video recording device front panel |
August 1, 2006 |
|
| D523420 |
Universal remote control |
June 20, 2006 |
|
| D521501 |
Remote control |
May 23, 2006 |
|
| D520989 |
Touch screen remote control |
May 16, 2006 |
|
| D520988 |
Remote control |
May 16, 2006 |
|
| D517530 |
Remote control |
March 21, 2006 |
|
| D517050 |
Remote control |
March 14, 2006 |
|
| D506749 |
UHF antenna |
June 28, 2005 |
|
| D482599 |
Clip for mounting a degaussing coil |
November 25, 2003 |
|
| D471170 |
Projection television |
March 4, 2003 |
|
| D460429 |
Telephone |
July 16, 2002 |
|
| D457505 |
Space saver kitchen video/CD/AM/FM stereo apparatus |
May 21, 2002 |
|
| D456788 |
Television receiver |
May 7, 2002 |
|
| D452242 |
Portable display device |
December 18, 2001 |
|
| D451506 |
User operatable digital device |
December 4, 2001 |
|
| D451117 |
Camera |
November 27, 2001 |
|
| D449593 |
Antenna |
October 23, 2001 |
|
| D434021 |
Telephone with securement mount |
November 21, 2000 |
|
| 7437561 |
Authentication of data transmitted in a digital transmission system |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method of authenticating data transmitted in a digital transmission system, in which the method comprises the steps, prior to transmission, of determining at least two encrypted values for at least some of the data, each encrypted value being determined using a key of a respective |
| 7360078 |
Communication methods and apparatus |
April 15, 2008 |
| A method of authenticating communication between a receiver/decoder and a remote server is disclosed. The method involves using an identifier of the receiver/decoder to authenticate the communication, the identifier being based on a smartcard number. Also disclosed is a gateway which is |
| 7353386 |
Method and device for authenticating digital data by means of an authentication extension module |
April 1, 2008 |
| An authentication method provides a segment forming an executable authentication plug-in previously authenticated by at least one authentication function from an authentication library and linked to a plurality of segments in accordance with a chaining relationship. In response to a |
| 7342966 |
MPEG table structure |
March 11, 2008 |
| A MPEG table data structure includes a data portion and a header. The header includes an action identifier field, and the action identifier field relates to data that identifies an action to be carried by a receiver/decoder receiving the MPEG table data structure. |
| 7340528 |
Data referencing system |
March 4, 2008 |
| This application describes a method of referencing content in an application. The method comprises, for a content element, creating a reference to the content element and associating that reference with the content element. This enables the content (for example, text or images) to be |
| 7321717 |
Upgradable on-screen display system |
January 22, 2008 |
| The absence of MPEG processing in a consumer digital recorder player may preclude on-screen message display of recorder status. Various methods are disclosed which facilitate the on-screen display of recorder player status meassages. A first embodiment returns a reproduced decoded, analo |
| 7310670 |
Multi-channel power line exchange protocol |
December 18, 2007 |
| A scalable networking protocol that allows multiple nodes to communicate via a multi-channel network medium is described. The networking protocol allows any node on the network to assign itself as the active network server. The active network server polls client nodes based on a lineup |
| 7284262 |
Receiver/decoder and method of processing video data |
October 16, 2007 |
| A method of processing video data in a receiver/decoder including at least one port (31) for receiving data and memory means (40) including a data buffer area (45A.sup.0, 45A.sup.1) for storing incoming data for display, and a graphics buffer area (45A.sup.i) for storing graphics data, s |
| 7275095 |
Internet subscriber management |
September 25, 2007 |
| A subscriber information management system for use with a broadcast system, and a method of managing subscriber information, are described. The system includes storing subscriber internet parameters relating to internet services access and storing subscriber broadcast parameters rela |
| 7239704 |
Method and apparatus for recording of encrypted digital data |
July 3, 2007 |
| A method relating to recording transmitted digital data in which transmitted digital information is encrypted by a recording encryption key. The recording encryption key is stored by a recording means on a recording support medium. Further, the recording encryption key is characteriz |
| 7231525 |
Authentification of data in a digital transmission system |
June 12, 2007 |
| A method of authentification of data sent in a digital transmission characterized by the organization and authentification of the data prior to transmission into a hierarchy of at least one root directory unit (75), subdirectory unit (76) and file unit (77), data in a file (77) being |
| 7228558 |
Address assignment in digital transmission system |
June 5, 2007 |
| A method of transmission of digital information in a digital broadcast system including a central transmission station and one or more decoders, the central station transmitting at least one transport stream comprising a stream of packets encapsulating data tables or sections within thei |
| 7227344 |
Switching DC-DC converter with improved stabilization |
June 5, 2007 |
| The switching DC-DC converter comprises an inductor, a control circuit with an oscillator and an output stage, the output stage being coupled to the inductor, a diode coupled to the inductor, and a feedback loop for generating a stabilized output voltage. An output voltage of the output |
| 7174512 |
Portal for a communications system |
February 6, 2007 |
| A portal for a communications system that includes a remote terminal connected via a communications network to a broadcast center. The portal includes a display connected to the remote terminal for displaying an arrangement of cells, each cell including a visual object and an underly |
| 7167820 |
Apparatus for and method of testing applications |
January 23, 2007 |
| A receiver/decoder (for example for digital television) normally receives and/or decodes transmitted data in a normal transmitted signal. In order to test an application running on the receiver/decoder, a special test signal could be generated, or a normal signal could be modified before |
| 7123652 |
Sampled data digital filtering system |
October 17, 2006 |
| A digital filtering system for filtering sample data includes a delay network for delaying input sample data to provide multiple delayed sample data outputs. The filtering system also includes a filter network represented by a decomposed coefficient weighting matrix for processing th |
| 7116719 |
Packet filtering |
October 3, 2006 |
| A method of filtering a packet data stream as transmitted in a digital audiovisual transmission system characterized in that transport packet data is filtered at a first stage by a digital filter (42) according to the characteristics of the transport packet header, selected filtered |
| 7092729 |
Method and apparatus for broadcasting and receiving entitlement management messages |
August 15, 2006 |
| The present invention provides a method of broadcasting a message having a text portion to be communicated to a user, the method including broadcasting the message in the form of an entitlement management message for reception by the user. |
| 7076432 |
Method and apparatus for processing digitally encoded audio data |
July 11, 2006 |
| An apparatus and a method for processing encoded digital audio data, wherein the digital audio data is encoded using one of a plurality of encoding formats. The present invention prevents encoded digital audio data that has been copied onto a particular type of data storage medium ha |
| 7068266 |
Windowing systems |
June 27, 2006 |
| A method of displaying a window on a screen is described, in which the window has a background through which underlying objects are visible. Also described are methods of managing windows when drawing takes place in a window which lies under such a window. |
