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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2006
Krishnan Ramanathan, Karnataka, IN;
Ajay Gupta, Karnataka, IN;
Shekhar Ramachandra Borgaonkar, Karnataka, IN;
Arnaud Francois Paul Salomon, Karnataka, IN;
Chakradhar Dandu, Karnataka, IN;
Somnath Banerjee, Karnataka, IN;
Krishnan Ramanathan, Karnataka, IN;
Ajay Gupta, Karnataka, IN;
Shekhar Ramachandra Borgaonkar, Karnataka, IN;
Arnaud Francois Paul Salomon, Karnataka, IN;
Chakradhar Dandu, Karnataka, IN;
Somnath Banerjee, Karnataka, IN;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for communicating media program information is provided. The method includes receiving a content-augmented broadcast signal at a conventional broadcast receiver, the content-augmented broadcast signal having a program content and a program cookie relating to the program content, demodulating the content-augmented broadcast signal, rendering the program content, recovering the program cookie from the demodulated content-augmented broadcast signal at substantially the same time the program content is rendered, determining whether the program cookie comprises information relating to a current media program a user is currently watching or listening to, or to an advertisement of a future media program, and sending the program cookie to an electronic device.