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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. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
John M Van Ryzin, Madison, NJ (US);
Peter Douma, Wyckoff, NJ (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 33 ; 369 30 ;
Abstract
A system and method for providing automated generation of program groups used in shuffled playback. The playback system acquires 'content information' concerning programs on subject media, and generates shuffled playback groups by comparing the content information to user entered 'desired-group information'. In one illustrative embodiment the content information is included on the media themselves. In a second illustrative embodiment, the content information is included in a database.