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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. 15, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2011
Applicants:

Germar Schaefer, Monument, CO (US);

Dan J. Minnick, Littleton, CO (US);

Inventors:

Germar Schaefer, Monument, CO (US);

Dan J. Minnick, Littleton, CO (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/4223 (2011.01); H04N 17/04 (2006.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4425 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 17/04 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4223 (2013.01); H04N 21/4424 (2013.01); H04N 21/4425 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosure is directed to determining a condition of the television receiver and communicating information regarding that condition to end-points that are external to the television receiver. The television receiver may create a two-dimensional barcode with information regarding the receiver condition and output the two-dimensional barcode for display on a display device. Once displayed on the display device, the two-dimensional barcode may be scanned into a mobile device where the information regarding the receiver condition may be stored, processed and/or forwarded to another location or device.


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