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Patent No.:

US 7587731 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2000

Program guide information providing device, program device information providing system, information receiving device, remote operating system, and method thereof

Applicants:

Tomoko Oyabu, Kanagawa, JP;

Mitsuru Nagasaka, Kanagawa, JP;

Aki Koyabu, Tokyo, JP;

Tomoyuki Hanai, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Tomoko Oyabu, Kanagawa, JP;

Mitsuru Nagasaka, Kanagawa, JP;

Aki Koyabu, Tokyo, JP;

Tomoyuki Hanai, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:

Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

William S. Frommer

Thomas F. Presson

Primary Examiner:

Son P Huynh

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/663 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A program guide information providing device is arranged so that reference information corresponding to identification information transmitted from a communication terminal device is read from preference information storage, programs matching the preferences of the user are searched from the program guide information based on the read preference information, searched program guide information is generated from the searched programs, and the searched program guide information is transmitted to the communication terminal device, thereby allowing the user to be provided with program guide information matching the preferences of the user, regardless of the location of the user using the communication terminal device.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Oyabu, Tomoko. (2009). Program guide information providing device, program device information providing system, information receiving device, remote operating system, and method thereof (U.S. Patent No. 7587731). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7587731

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