Thomson Licensing

Thomson Licensing Dtv

Thanabalan Thavittupitchai Paul

Thomas Anthony Stahl

Steven Charles Rhoads

Darrel Wayne Randall

John Alan Gervais

Robert Andrew Rhodes

Douglas Strachota

Benjamin Vondersaar

Xiaowei Xu

The boot process of a content/service receiver is dynamically monitored to provide error and/or status information in a step-by-step and/or in a single-snapshot manner. This can be accomplished by, for example, utilizing an application thread running within, and/or, outside the context of the boot code. Status information from, for example, software drivers and/or any other software/hardware/middleware components, is acquired by the application thread utilizing any mechanism, for example, event-driven and/or polling, and then relayed to an external entity, which can be locally and/or remotely located. The external entity can be reached by any means of standard and/or proprietary medium and protocols available, if necessary. The relayed information can then be used, for example, for displaying to a user via a graphical user interface, and/or can be recorded and the like.

Systems and methods for dynamically reporting a boot process in content/service receivers

The present invention relates to electronic program guides. Program guide state information is stored in a remote control which generates and delivers a pseudo-interactive guide to end users with the system state information (guide information to channel mapping maintained in the remote control device.

Remote control based interactive program guide

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Thanabalan Thavittupitchai Paul