Method for displaying a TV program to a viewer comprising receiving a plurality of TV programs, allowing a viewer to select one of the plurality of received TV programs for viewing, and responding to the viewer selection by displaying the viewer selected program and displaying additional programs in accordance with previously specified display criteria, the additional programs selected in accordance with the previously determined viewing preferences of the viewer.

A call template builder constructs call templates for interfacing between two blocks of code that utilize different calling conventions. Each call template is built to perform calling convention translation for a call from a source code block to a particular function in a target code block.

Configuration includes a setting, with the setting having an 50 abstract value to be resolved based at least in part on a characteristic of a system. The configuration is installed in a recipient system, and a value is resolved for the setting based at least in part on a characteristic of the recipient system.

A deployable template structure is described. In an embodiment, the deployable template structure includes sections for virtual machines deployable, filters, and component configuration settings. Parameters for the virtual machine section are broken down into three groups: memory, system, and additional.

The method includes receiving an abstract configuration for a system, the abstract configuration including a setting. The configuration setting is modified with a template, the template being designed for a particular use of the system.

Methods and apparatus for selecting and delivering advertising or promotional content based on, e.g., the attributes of a desired demographic

Disclosed herein are demographic based content delivery systems and associated methods that automatically and non-invasively detect information regarding one or more persons within a designated viewing area. In embodiments of the systems and methods, two different automatic viewer identification and demographic classification technologies may be utilized, either alone or on combination. The technologies include image recognition technologies that utilize computer driven image and pattern recognition analysis algorithms and radio frequency identification tagging and reading technologies.