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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:
Sep. 30, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2010
Applicants:

Sudhanshu Sharma, Coppell, TX (US);

Neena Pandey, Coppell, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sudhanshu Sharma, Coppell, TX (US);

Neena Pandey, Coppell, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/6543 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8166 (2013.01); H04N 21/6543 (2013.01); H04N 21/4351 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes detecting, from an Enhanced Television (ETV) Integrated Signaling Stream (EISS), an indication that an ETV application is available to be downloaded; downloading, in response to the indication, the ETV application from a video stream identified by the indication, where the ETV application does not conform to an ETV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) standard; detecting, from the EISS, another indication that the ETV application is to be started; executing, in response to the other indication, the ETV application to generate an ETV page, where the ETV page includes information that is not permitted by the EBIF standard; and displaying the ETV page on a video display device to enables a user to interact with the ETV page.


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