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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:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Felix Freimann, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Felix Freimann, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Opentv, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for acquiring and storing schedule event information from a cyclical broadcast in an interactive television system comprising a Head end (), transmission media () and a client device such as a set top box () and display TV (). An request queue for particular Event Information Table (EIT) schedule sections () is created and serviced in optimal fashion by selecting a section from the EIT request queue with the least acquisition latency based on the current position in the EIT broadcast cycle, the set top box () processing speed and the sequence of EIT sections () requested.