Vipul T Patel

7810121, Oct 5, 2010

Aug 18, 2003

10/643111

Vipul B. Patel - Upper Holland PA, US
John W. Callahan - Broomfield CO, US

Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc. - Stamford CT

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00
H04N 5/445
H04N 7/173
H04N 7/16

725 58, 725 88, 725 89, 725102, 725135, 725136

A resident application and a second application are provided in a set-top terminal to receive a TV broadcast service and network personal video recorder (NPVR) service, respectively. The resident application is suspended in favor of the second application when a user changes from a broadcast channel to an NPVR enabled channel, and vice versa. In an embodiment where a digital video recorder (DVR) set-top terminal is used, a DVR server therein provides trick mode functions (pause, rewind and fast-forward) before an NPVR session, e. g. , a Look Back session, is established. In another embodiment, during an NPVR session the DVR server plays back recorded programming content downloaded from a communications network, and provides trick mode functions as well.

8396055, Mar 12, 2013

Oct 20, 2009

12/582653

Vipul Patel - Upper Holland PA, US
Scott Miller - Doylestown PA, US
Mehul Shah - Lansdale PA, US
Jian Yu - Warrington PA, US

Time Warner Cable Inc. - New York NY

H04L 12/66

370352

Methods and apparatus for providing unified access to interactive media applications and services in a network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a content-based network such as a cable television or satellite network, and the applications are disposed at the network headend. A servlet is provided to facilitate communication between the applications and client devices. The servlet acts as a proxy for applications utilizing a different content format than the client devices. The applications obtain data from e. g. , an internet host server via a gateway device. The client application(s) may comprise Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) pages, and are configured so as to permit use via a common interface (e. g. , the user's set top box and television display). These client applications enable a user to, for example, search the internet for data relating to displayed content, post and navigate micro-blogs, instant messaging or SMS, making telephone calls (e. g.

20020069411, Jun 6, 2002

Dec 6, 2000

09/731262

Mario Rainville - Doylestown PA, US
Vipul Patel - Langhorne PA, US

Liberate Technologies, MoreCom Division, Inc.

H04N005/445
H04N007/173

725/037000, 725/131000, 725/109000, 725/110000

A system for enhancing the display of World Wide Web pages combined with television video signals on a TV screen includes enhanced display modes. In a first embodiment, the viewer controls the transparency of a Picture-In-Picture image (PIP). A PIP image that normally covers up a part of the background image is made transparent so that the user can view the background image through the PIP image. Using transparency control, two same size images are simultaneously viewed whereby a full size background image and a full size foreground image simultaneously occupy the full television video screen. In a second embodiment of enhanced display of television video and World Wide Web graphics, a television video Picture-In-Graphics (PIG) image is imbedded as an object in an HTML Web page. When the HTML Web page is displayed as a background image and scrolled (or panned), the television video PIG image scrolls along with the HTML Web page background image. In such manner, the smaller PIG image does not cover up an important part of the larger background graphics image.

20090193486, Jul 30, 2009

Jan 25, 2008

12/019766

Vipul Patel - Upper Holland PA, US
Jian Yu - Warrington PA, US
Jack Miller - Huntington Valley PA, US
John Callahan - Broomfield CO, US

Time Warner Cable Inc - Stamford CT

H04N 7/173

725114, 725131

A video content system includes a server module, a video content network coupled to the server module, and a digital set-top terminal coupled to the video content network. The digital set-top terminal in turn includes a processor; an interface coupled to the processor and the video content network; and a memory module. The memory module has at least a partitioned hard disk with a first partition containing digital video programming received over the video content network, and a second partition containing supplemental resources.

20100023979, Jan 28, 2010

Jul 25, 2008

12/179650

Vipul Patel - Upper Holland PA, US
Scott Miller - Sweet Briar VA, US
Mehul Shah - Horsham PA, US
David Chen - Jamison PA, US

Time Warner Cable Inc. - Stamford CT

H04N 7/173
H04N 11/04

725 93, 3752402

A head end application server is coupled to a photo-sharing server having an Internet interface. A video content network is coupled to the head end application server, and a terminal is coupled to the video content network at a location remote from the head end application server and the photo-sharing server. The photo-sharing server is configured to accept upload of digital still images via the Internet interface, and the digital still images are in a format other than MPEG I-frames. The head end application server is configured to receive a request from the terminal and, responsive to the request, to fetch the digital still images from the photo-sharing server, transcode the digital still images into MPEG I-frames, and make the MPEG I-frames available, over the video content network, for selective display via the terminal. The system can advantageously function without use of a video-on-demand server.

20110035775, Feb 10, 2011

Oct 4, 2010

12/924724

Vipul B. Patel - Upper Holland PA, US
John W. Callahan - Broomfield CO, US

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00

725 59

A resident application and a second application are provided in a set-top terminal to receive a TV broadcast service and network personal video recorder (NPVR) service, respectively. The resident application is suspended in favor of the second application when a user changes from a broadcast channel to an NPVR enabled channel, and vice versa. In an embodiment where a digital video recorder (DVR) set-top terminal is used, a DVR server therein provides trick mode functions (pause, rewind and fast-forward) before an NPVR session, e.g., a Look Back session, is established. In another embodiment, during an NPVR session the DVR server plays back recorded programming content downloaded from a communications network, and provides trick mode functions as well.

20110093900, Apr 21, 2011

Oct 20, 2009

12/582619

Vipul Patel - Upper Holland PA, US
David Chen - Jamison PA, US
Scott Miller - Doylestown PA, US
Mehul Shah - Lansdale PA, US

H04N 5/445
H04N 7/173

725 54, 725120, 725109, 37524001, 725126, 725 98

Methods and apparatus for the delivery of digital content in a network. In one embodiment, the digital content comprises internet content received from an Internet host server in a first container format, and converted to a second container format at a headend entity of a cable television or satellite network. The headend entity transmits the re-containerized content to one or more consumer devices, and acts as a gateway device between the consumer devices and various internet content sources. Delivery of internet content from the gateway device can be via broadcast, nPVR, DVR and/or VOD delivery mechanisms. The internet content gateway device is adapted to request, receive and process the internet content. Requests for internet content may be made from either a CPE or the gateway device itself according to one or more rules. The content may also be selectively transcoded before re-encapsulation based on the consumer device capabilities.

20140038724, Feb 6, 2014

Aug 1, 2013

13/957143

Timothy Jason KOTZEN - Hatboro PA, US
Vipul Harshard PATEL - Chalfont PA, US

Megatouch, LLC - Bristol PA

G07F 17/32

463 42

A method of operating a tournament in an amusement device network is described. A tournament is initiated with a plurality of electronic games playable by tournament participants using amusement devices participating in the tournament. Score information is received from amusement devices in the amusement device network. The score information is associated with tournament participants playing any of the plurality of electronic games. The received score information is normalized across the plurality of electronic games. A normalized tournament score is determined for each of the tournament participants and output to the amusement device network.