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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:
Oct. 07, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2012
Applicants:

Charlie William Zetterower, Parker, CO (US);

David A. Kummer, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Inventors:

Charlie William Zetterower, Parker, CO (US);

David A. Kummer, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Assignee:

EchoStar Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01); H04N 21/432 (2011.01); H04N 21/4147 (2011.01); H04N 5/782 (2006.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/4325 (2013.01); H04N 21/4147 (2013.01); H04N 5/782 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of generating and using indexing information for video content is presented. In the method, an index stream for a video stream is generated at a video content transmitter. The video stream includes video frames, and the index stream includes an index for each of at least some of the video frames within the video stream. The video stream and the index stream are transmitted from the video content transmitter to a video content receiver, which receives and stores the video and index streams. Further, at the video content receiver, the index stream is processed to locate the video frames within the video stream that are associated with at least some of the indexes of the index stream, and at least some of the located video frames of the video stream are presented to an output device under control of a user of the video content receiver.


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