A method of delivering an audio video asset is described. The method includes: receiving an order specifying an audio video asset to be delivered and a delivery destination for the audio video asset, wherein a delivery destination represents one or more physical delivery recipients; determining delivery paths repres...

A Headend apparatus to provide content to end-user receiver devices in a plurality of geographic regions, the apparatus including a receiver to receive video content for a plurality of services for consumption across all the geographic regions, and receive regional content, each service including at least one region...

A method and system for embedding a message in compressed content comprising at least one key frame and at least one non-key frame, the method comprising embedding a message in the at least on key frame. Related methods and apparatus are also described.

A method and apparatus is described to achieve a fast service change. The meG06Fthod includes: receiving a plurality of transport streams at a client device, each transport stream including a plurality of services; playing out a service from the plurality of services; storing a portion of at least one service from t...

A system and method for interactively selecting video content which includes a primary video stream and a plurality of secondary video streams being displayed on a display device, in which the viewer may easily and simply select one of the secondary video streams to replace the currently viewed primary video stream,...

A system and method for video trick mode playback is described the system and method including a user actuated control operative to slide (130) a playback position along a video file the user actuated control including a rewind actuation a forward actuation (120) and a default neutral actuation a player device inclu...

A method of operating a client device is described. The method includes: receiving a user input requesting an event to be displayed; playing out the requested event; identifying a type of the requested event; estimating a duration of a next commercial break occurring in the requested event according to the type; sel...

A device including a module to receive a stream including an insertion content item and first timecodes, a module to record the stream, a module to receive a live stream including a timeslot and second and third timecodes, a clock to provide a clock reading updated based on at least some of the third timecodes, a mo...

A method for producing a certificate, the certificate including data, the method including choosing a seed s, the seed s including a result of applying a function H to the data, generating a key pair (E,D), such that E=F(s,t), F being a publicly known function, and including s and t in the certificate. Relate...

A method and system for embedding a message in compressed content comprising at least one key frame and at least one non-key frame, the method comprising embedding a message in the at least on key frame. Related methods and apparatus are also described. 31

A system for scrambling / descrambling packets of a stream of content, each packet having a must stay clear (MSC) section, the system including an input handler including a receiving module to receive the stream, a characteristic analyzer to analyze the stream in order to determine a data independent characteristic ...

A method for determining proximity between a first device and a second device, the method comprising providing a first Slice storing a first device private key, the first device having an associated secure first device certificate storing secured information, the secured information comprising a first device public...

A method and system for an electronic program guide (EPG) context search is described, the method including receiving at a set top box, during display of a program by the set top box, a request invoking the EPG context search, determining, upon receipt of the request, identifying data associated with the program, se...

ABSTRACT A method for producing at least one ciphertext block from at least one plaintext blocks using a block cipher E and a key K, the method including receiving n plaintext blocks, wherein n is an integer greater then 0, setting Q0 equal to an initial value, and for each plaintext block of the n plaintext blocks...

In an iterated block cipher, a method for round key encryption and key generation, the method including providing a first function Fi and a second function Fj, providing a round key generation function, the round key generation function being operative to utilize, in any given round, exactly one of the first functio...

A method for data processing, comprising providing a sequence of image frames that is encoded by identifying intra and inter frames in the sequence and applying a variable block size motion compensation (VBSMC) procedure to the inter frames, thereby generating respective parameters representing the inter frames; sel...

A system and a method as depicted in figure no. 3 for secure transmission of protected content to a subscriber, without requiring a smart card or other renewable security element to be in physical proximately of the recipient module of the subscriber, such as a set-top box for example Therefore, the renewable securi...

A system for switching from a first (14) to a second (16) audio/video sequence, the second sequence (16) including a splice point time stamp (12), the system including a disk (18) to store the first sequence (14), a receiver to receive the second sequence as live audio/video, a demultiplexer arrangement (24) to demu...