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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:
Aug. 12, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2000
Applicants:

John J. Sie, Englewood, CO (US);

Ganesh Basawapatna, Greenwood Village, CO (US);

Martin F. Sabraw, Englewood, CO (US);

Gregory R. Deprez, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Inventors:

John J. Sie, Englewood, CO (US);

Ganesh Basawapatna, Greenwood Village, CO (US);

Martin F. Sabraw, Englewood, CO (US);

Gregory R. Deprez, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Assignee:

Starz Entertainment, LLC, Englewood, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention relates to delivering a program to an individual business or residence. In one embodiment, a process for receiving a program by a user location that is sent from a content distributor is described. In one step, a first portion of the program is received and stored at the user location. A user request for the program is detected after storage of the first portion. A second portion of the program is received in response to the detecting the user request.


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