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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Robert Alan Flavin, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Inventor:
Robert Alan Flavin, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A segment announcing system is disclosed that contains one or more segment announcement receivers that receive one or more announcements over a network connection and/or other communication connection. The announcements contain content information about the content of broadcast information being broadcast, e.g., to a television. The segment announcement receivers have one or more control outputs to perform a function, typically to control the segment announcement receivers during processing of information called a content stream.