Tuesday, April 04, 2006

BigBand Networks is Awarded First US Patent for Dynamic Provisioning of Digital Media Streams



Tuesday April 4, 8:30 am ET
Innovative technologies provide foundation for widespread industry collaboration onswitched broadcast, enabling bandwidth reclamation and advanced functionality

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading provider of broadband multimedia infrastructure for video, voice and data, today announced it has been awarded US Patent No. 6,999,477. This is for the method and system of selecting media streams from multiple sources, and dynamically provisioning them to particular groups of subscribers. The practice is fundamental to the expanding practice of switching digital video and constitutes the backbone of the BigBand Switched Broadcast solution.

America Online changes it's name to AOL.


AOL started out as Quantum Computer Services in 1985, and offered Internet service four years later. In 1991 it changed its name to America Online. After 10 years AOL merged with Time Warner to create AOL Time Warner.

But when the tech bubble burst, parent company Time Warner returned to being simply Time Warner.

AOL also is restructuring itself as a limited liability company.



"Our company long ago accomplished the mission implied by our old name ... we literally got America online," said AOL LLC Chief Executive Officer Jon Miller. "Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission - to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials."