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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:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 ;
Abstract
A television receiving apparatus capable of notifying a user away from home of a message stored in the apparatus includes a memory for storing various data, a clock circuit for counting a current time, a modem for establishing connection with a public switched network, and a control circuit. When the clock circuit reaches a time stored previously in the memory, the control circuit causes a message held in the memory to be transmitted via the modem to an address designated by data stored in the memory.