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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:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2004
Applicants:
Daniel J. Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vivek Thukral, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Samuel Thomas Scott, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel J. Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vivek Thukral, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Samuel Thomas Scott, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A request for content associated with a particular channel is received from a client device. A system identifies service information data associated with the channel. The system then determines how content associated with the channel will be provided to the client device. Instructions are sent to the client device that notify the client device how to access content associated with the channel.