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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2009
Applicants:
Martin Busse, Woburn, MA (US);
Jimena Velarde, Arlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Martin Busse, Woburn, MA (US);
Jimena Velarde, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/252 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/26283 (2013.01); H04N 21/4755 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01);
Abstract
An approach is provided for creating a personalized programming guide. A guide manager receives input from a user for creating a personalized programming guide. The guide manager retrieves one or more search criteria associated with a community of other users to construct a query. The guide manager then performs the query and displays the results of the query in a personalized programming guide.