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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernardus H Vaske, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348731 ; 348732 ; 348461 ;
Abstract
Transmitter station for transmitting, and receiver for receiving a plurality of television programs via respective transmission channels. A teletext page with tuning data, which are representative of the transmission channels used by the transmitter station is transmitted by one of the programs, for example, a local television program. An installation procedure of downloading the tuning data includes a search of the local television program. In order to accelerate the procedure, the page header of its teletext pages includes a code (.about.) indicating that the tuning data are incorporated in the television program.