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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Rovi Technologies Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul R. Cooper, San Jose, CA (US);
Yvonne N. Ellefson, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
Arleen Camaganacan Fernando, Redwood City, CA (US);
Imran Arif Maskatia, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Ryan Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matt Henry Van der Staay, San Jose, CA (US);
Chad Michael Williams, San Mateo, CA (US);
Rovi Technologies Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Television tuner emulation techniques are described. In an implementation, a television tuner is emulated through execution of software on a processing system by a computing device, the emulated television tuner includes functionality to obtain television content over an Internet Protocol (IP) based network. The functionality of the emulated television tuner is exposed to one or more applications that are executed by the computing device such that the application is not aware that the television tuner is emulated through execution of the software.