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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2007
William Irvin, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Chad E. Steelberg, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Ryan S. Steelberg, Irvine, CA (US);
Matt Chalawsky, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Dipankar Gupta, Irvine, CA (US);
Bradley D. Townsend, Irvine, CA (US);
Jeffrey W. Houston, Lake Forest, CA (US);
William Irvin, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Chad E. Steelberg, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Ryan S. Steelberg, Irvine, CA (US);
Matt Chalawsky, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Dipankar Gupta, Irvine, CA (US);
Bradley D. Townsend, Irvine, CA (US);
Jeffrey W. Houston, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Wideorbit, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Sharing media content among families of broadcast stations includes receiving information relating to media content from families of broadcast stations, storing the information such that the information is accessible to at least two of the families of broadcast stations via a computer network, receiving a query for specific media content from a broadcast station, searching the stored information in accordance with the query to identify the specific media content; and enabling the broadcast station to access to the specific media content if the specific media content is identified among the stored information.