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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2010
Applicants:

Geoffrey R. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);

Kaustuv, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Daniel J. Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Jay Shrauner, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Alastair Hawkins, London, GB;

Simon M. Rowe, Finchampstead, GB;

Michael A. Killianey, London, GB;

Yaroslav Volovich, CambridLoge, GB;

Iain Merrick, London, GB;

Inventors:

Geoffrey R. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);

Kaustuv, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Daniel J. Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Jay Shrauner, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Alastair Hawkins, London, GB;

Simon M. Rowe, Finchampstead, GB;

Michael A. Killianey, London, GB;

Yaroslav Volovich, CambridLoge, GB;

Iain Merrick, London, GB;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04H 60/32 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Reporting data related to content processing devices, e.g., television devices, are processed to identify channel tunes and corresponding tune times of the content processing devices. Automatically generated channel tunes based on the corresponding tune times are identified. Content items that are aired during a time period defined by the corresponding tune times can be adjusted.


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