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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:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2007
Applicants:
Thomas H. Taylor, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter J. Potrebic, Calistoga, CA (US);
Steven Horowitz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas H. Taylor, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter J. Potrebic, Calistoga, CA (US);
Steven Horowitz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A request is received to create a program event to record a program from a broadcast start time through a broadcast end time on a broadcast channel. The program event is created to record the program in a recording for a playback of the program from the recording. Upon an occurrence of an incident likely to prevent the play back, a diagnostic descriptive of the incident is output.