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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2005
George Williams, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Xudong Yu, San Diego, CA (US);
Toshiro Ozawa, San Diego, CA (US);
Rolf Toft, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Leo M. Pedlow, Jr., Ramona, CA (US);
George Williams, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Xudong Yu, San Diego, CA (US);
Toshiro Ozawa, San Diego, CA (US);
Rolf Toft, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Leo M. Pedlow, Jr., Ramona, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for facilitating use of OCAP (OpenCable™ Applications Platform) standard in a host cable television device, the host cable television device having a connector consistent with certain embodiments has a removable module. An OCAP engine resides on the removable module suitable for execution of Java™ code as specified by the OCAP specification. A module side connector is affixed to the removable module, the connector being suitable for mating with the connector of the host device. The module side connector has connections suitable for carrying graphics video data from the OCAP engine to the host device suitable presentation to a video display. The module side connector further has connections suitable for carrying Java™ code instructions to the OCAP engine for execution. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.