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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:
Feb. 06, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2014
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Vijayan Radhakrishnan, Chennai, IN;

Aravind Vaidhyanathan, Chennai, IN;

JanardhanReddy Tripuram, Nalgonda, IN;

Kavitha PanneerSelvam, Chennai, IN;

Deepak Natarajan, Coimbatore, IN;

Sivasubramanian Parthasarathy, Muthialpet, IN;

Venkatesan Sriraman, Chennai, IN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/4403 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 21/42221 (2013.01); H04N 21/4828 (2013.01); H04N 2005/44556 (2013.01); H04N 2005/44569 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device may receive a numeric code representing an alphanumeric character; and determine one or more programming channel names including the alphanumeric character represented by the numeric code. Each of the one or more channel names may be associated with a television broadcast network. The device may the one or more programming channel names; receive a selection of a particular programming channel, of the one or more programming channels; and present content associated with the selected programming channel.


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