The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 10, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1998
John H. Roop, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alan R. Ebright, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey J. Kochy, San Jose, CA (US);
David P. Warden, Redwood City, CA (US);
Konstantine Sokolik, Redwood City, CA (US);
Giambattista A. Alegiani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Starsight Telecast, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
Television schedule information transmission and utilization systems (,A-,D) transmit TV schedule data and associated network control messages provided by computer (,) as packets via the Video Blanking Interval (VBI) lines in the TV signal from various television program providers (,). This data is acquired by regional data processing systems and forwarded by the regional data processing systems to subscriber units (,) and used to construct an internal database. This intern database can be accessed by the subscriber unit (,) to display a TV schedule for the channels that are received by the user's TV.