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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2009
Alberto Javier Crespo, Roswell, GA (US);
Kelly Collins Pollak, Sharpsburg, GA (US);
Alberto Javier Crespo, Roswell, GA (US);
Kelly Collins Pollak, Sharpsburg, GA (US);
The Weather Channel, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for providing a local content to a viewer in the form of an animation sequence. A micro program may be data-cast to a receiver to provide national and local content to a number of receiver units that may be located at, e.g., a cable headend or other distribution point. The micro program executes, at least in part, on each receiver unit. If the micro program is relevant to the receiver unit, then the micro program executes to completion. The micro program may include a code representative of local conditions that is mapped by the local receiver unit to a library of animation graphics used to create an animation sequence to convey the local conditions to a viewer. For example, the local conditions may be weather conditions and the animation sequence conveys how the weather will feel or affect a viewer.