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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:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1995
Randall Lee Bertram, Raleigh, NC (US);
Herbert S Steelman, Lawrenceburg, KY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to consumer use of what is here called the 'television space'. That is, the use of video/audio signal streams such as in the past have been distributed by broadcast over radio frequency bands or by cable distribution, or made available from video recorder/player devices such as cassette recorders or video disc player, or made available from direct, live sources such as cameras, game systems or computers. A list of previously viewed channels or video signal stream sources is constructed and stored in memory devices by use of a cursor and remote control interface. Listed sources may be selected by cursor positioning on a displayed list of the previously selected sources.