Abstract: Providing digital video having customized graphics whose appearance and operation are specified by a graphics template expressed using one or more web-based protocols. One or more software modules, executing on a media server, identify, for a particular digital video, a markup language document which describes or identifies a customized appearance of one or more graphics to be incorporated into a presentation of particular digital video and shown to an identified audience. The markup language document may be an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document. The media server streams the particular digital video having the one or more graphics to a member of the identified audience in accordance with the markup language document. An HTML rendering engine, executing on the media server, may pass through one or more audio streams to be incorporated into an output stream without re-encoding the one or more audio streams.

Abstract: Providing digital video having customized graphics whose appearance and operation are specified by a graphics template expressed using one or more web-based protocols. One or more software modules, executing on a media server, identify, for a particular digital video, a markup language document which describes or identifies a customized appearance of one or more graphics to be incorporated into a presentation of particular digital video and shown to an identified audience. The markup language document may be an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document. The media server streams the particular digital video having the one or more graphics to a member of the identified audience in accordance with the markup language document. An HTML rendering engine, executing on the media server, may pass through one or more audio streams to be incorporated into an output stream without re-encoding the one or more audio streams.

Abstract: Playing out digital video with customized graphics whose appearance and operation are specified by a graphics template expressed using one or more web-based protocols. One or more software modules, executing on a media server, identify, for a particular digital video, a markup language document which describes a customized appearance of one or more graphics to be incorporated into a presentation of particular digital video. The markup language document may be an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document. The media server plays out the particular digital video with the one or more graphics in accordance with the markup language document. An HTML rendering engine, executing on the media server, may pass through one or more audio streams to be incorporated into an output stream used in playing out the particular digital video without re-encoding the one or more audio streams.

Abstract: Applying pulses to liquid being injected into wells makes the ground/liquid formation more homogenous, and more penetrative. A system for automatically creating the pulses is described, in which a piston is acted upon by the pressure differential (PDAF) between the supplied accumulator pressure and the formation pressure. The changing levels of the PDAF as the pulse-valve opens (and the PDAF falls) and as the pulse-valve closes (and the PDAF rises) are harnessed to actuate an inhibitor that restrain movement of the valve-piston, and delays opening and/or closing of the pulse-valve. The pulse-valve is engineered to open explosively, and thus create penetrative porosity-waves in the formation. The system includes a pressurized-gas accumulator, and injection-check-valve which can maintain pulsing even when the ground is not saturated, and the static injector, which allows non-pulsed injection only when the ground is non-saturated.

Abstract: Applying pulses to liquid being injected into wells makes the ground/liquid formation more homogenous, and more penetrative. A system for automatically creating the pulses is described, in which a piston is acted upon by the pressure differential (PDAF) between the supplied accumulator pressure and the formation pressure. The changing levels of the PDAF as the pulse-valve opens (and the PDAF falls) and as the pulse-valve closes (and the PDAF rises) are harnessed to actuate an inhibitor that restrain movement of the valve-piston, and delays opening and/or closing of the pulse-valve. The pulse-valve is engineered to open explosively, and thus create penetrative porosity-waves in the formation. The system includes a pressurized-gas accumulator, and injection-check-valve which can maintain pulsing even when the ground is not saturated, and the static injector, which allows non-pulsed injection only when the ground is non-saturated.

Abstract: A system and method for distributing data, including television, video and audio data. One embodiment of the system includes a first media processing unit coupled to a data bus, the first media processing unit comprising a first decoder and a first interface unit; a second media processing unit coupled to a data bus, the second media processing unit comprising a second decoder and a second interface unit; and a communications processing unit connected to the first media processing unit and the second media processing unit, the communications processing unit configured to receive data from a telephone network and provide the received data to at least one of the first media processing unit and the second media processing unit.