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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Applicant:
Jenke Wu Kuo, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jenke Wu Kuo, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/6175 (2013.01);
Abstract
An EPG presented on an IPTV lists broadcast TV programming but when an entry on the EPG is selected, an Internet server, and not the TV broadcast source, is accessed and streams the listed programming to the IPTV.