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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
David J Duffield, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Billy W Beyers, Jr, Greenfield, IN (US);
Assignee:
RCA Licensing Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3581911 ; 358 22 ; 3581941 ; 34082503 ; 455186 ; 455603 ;
Abstract
A tuning system is provided which allows a user to enter text labels associated with respective channels or television programs to be tuned so that, thereafter, a channel or program to be tuned may be selected by the user by entering its label. Scheduling of television programs by label is also provided by storing time-related data as well as channel-related data and associating these data for each television program with a user-entered label.
Published as:
US4959720A; EP0391657A2; KR900017287A; JPH0362742A; EP0391657A3; MY107135A; JPH0834446B2; SG50483A1; KR0185394B1; EP1227585A2; EP1227585A3; EP0391657B1; ATE301344T1; DE69034201D1; DE69034201T2;