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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Hugh Boyd Morrison, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Anthony Edward Stuart, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Robert Joseph Logan, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Charles Bryan Hunt, Westfield, IN (US);
Megan Louise Brown, Carmel, IN (US);
Jill Suzanne Allen, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Hugh Boyd Morrison, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Anthony Edward Stuart, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Robert Joseph Logan, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Charles Bryan Hunt, Westfield, IN (US);
Megan Louise Brown, Carmel, IN (US);
Jill Suzanne Allen, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A video processing apparatus may be controlled in response to selecting an advertisement displayed in connection with a productivity or communication application software program being operated on a video processing apparatus. The advertisement includes control information, which is used by the video processing apparatus to control an operating mode thereof. The control information may include both time and channel data as well as a recording data for programming a timer. Alternately, the control information may only include program data, which is passed to the electronic program guide to determine the time and channel information associated with the program data.