A media system includes a plurality of set-top boxes coupled to a coax network and a controller. The controller displays a first passkey to a user in response to receiving a request from the user to activate playback of a media content on a particular set-top box. The set-top box receives the first passkey from the user and determines whether the user is authorized to activate playback of the media content by comparing the first passkey received from the user with a second passkey obtained from a passkey module on the set-top box. When the user is determined by the set-top box to be authorized to activate playback of the media content, the set-top box determines a radio frequency channel of the coax network according to the first passkey received from the user and begins playback of the media content received on the radio frequency channel on a display device.

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for dynamically providing digital content to client devices at different insertion points of a digital video based on predicted total value of inserting the digital content and predicted engagement loss of inserting the digital content. For example, system and methods described herein determine that an insertion point is approaching in an actively playing digital video. In response, systems and methods identify digital content for insertion at the insertion point. In one or more embodiments, the described systems and methods insert the identified digital content by comparing the predicted total value of inserting the digital content at the insertion point of the digital video and a predicted engagement loss associated with inserting the digital content at the insertion point of the digital video.

The invention relates to a system and method for improved, selective download of broadcast data. In particular the present invention relates to downloading of broadcast data effectively when disturbances occur during reception of an input signal comprising a data carousel. The invention introduces multiplication of content filters that are configured to download only a part of the data. An important feature is recognition when to reset content filters in order to resolve an issue. For the purposes of this invention, there is defined a linear address space. The important properties of this address space allow for consistent addressing without gaps and every address is greater by a single position with respect to the previous one. The address space starts with one address and ends with another one. Such chunk address space may be considered as predictable, because a synchronization can be caught by reading an address of currently broadcast section.

A method is directed to recovering a target file by an audio/video receiving equipment, the audio/video receiving equipment including at least two communication interfaces, including a first communication interface able to receive broadcast data and a second communication interface able to establish a bidirectional dialog with a server. The method makes possible to make data available simultaneously: in the normal direction, from the beginning to the end, on an IP interface via a file server (HTTP/FTP/etc.); in the reverse direction, from the end to the beginning, on a broadcast interface via a DSM-CC carousel, referred to as a dedicated channel. Thus the audio/video reception equipment can efficiently recover the data by simultaneously using two communication interfaces including at least one unidirectional interface.

It is possible to satisfactorily insert predetermined information into a media encoded stream and transmit the stream. Divided portions obtained by dividing the predetermined information are sequentially inserted into a predetermined number of unit portions of the media encoded stream as adding sequential information for reconstruction. In this case, the predetermined information is divided so that a bit rate of the predetermined information falls within a predetermined bit rate. A container with a predetermined format including the media encoded stream to which the predetermined information is inserted is transmitted.

A video aggregation system for providing a user personalized video content from videos available on the Internet generates a selective feed by combining a first feed and a second feed. The video aggregation system receives a search request from an Internet service and transmits a search reply containing a separately resolvable link to a video content object from the selective feed.

The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.

The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a broadcast receiving unit and a controller. The broadcast receiving unit is configured to be capable of receiving a broadcast. The controller is configured to acquire a first application information table by communication, the first application information table storing at least first usage permission information indicating a usage permission range of a resource of the broadcast by an application using the resource, to control an operation of the application, and to acquire a second application information table storing at least second usage permission information indicating the usage permission range of the resource by the application by using the broadcast receiving unit during execution of the application, to control the operation of the application.

A video aggregation system presents video content items to multiple users. A first filter is used to filter content items from a first feed and a second feed for a first user. A second filter is used to filter content items from the first feed and the second feed for a second user.