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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2007
Mitch C. Jacobs, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Mitch C. Jacobs, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method includes an automation system and a scheduling system generating a schedule having a countdown time for a countdown clock assembly and communicating the schedule to an automation system. The system also includes a content repository storing promotional content and a clock background in the content repository. The automation system retrieves the promotional content and the clock background from the content repository, stores the promotional content and the clock background, forms a countdown clock assembly from the promotional content and the clock background and inserts the countdown clock assembly into a channel signal.