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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. 19, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicants:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Mario Udo Brotz, Mountain View, CA (US);

David S. Wang, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/4349 (2013.01); H04N 21/4331 (2013.01); H04N 7/163 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/4263 (2013.01);
Abstract

An intelligent device is configured to receive a DTV signal that includes audio/visual information as well as data signals in a datacast format. The datacast format includes web pages, e.g., in the HTML (hypertext markup language) format of the world wide web. An intelligent filter modifies itself based on user behavior and user preferences in terms of the web pages that a viewer routinely visits. The intelligent filter is then used to identify certain web pages of the pages that are being broadcast and these identified web pages are stored in a cache memory for later use by the viewer. A second tuner can be used to poll multiple channels when updating the cached contents. Cached web pages avoid broadcast latencies (due to periodic updating) and thereby are displayed faster to the viewer.


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