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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:
Mar. 20, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2015
Applicant:

Echostar Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventors:

Phuc H. Nguyen, Parker, CO (US);

Christopher William Bruhn, Aurora, CO (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4886 (2013.01); H04N 21/4263 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/44016 (2013.01); H04N 21/4858 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards extracting an informational banner from a first source and combining it with video content from a second source. The informational banner may be a news ticker, a scoreboard, an informational window of a program, etc. The informational banner is selected or identified from the first source using one or more different automated or user-selectable methods. The extracted informational banner is combined with video content from the second source at a display location that is automatically determined or selected by a user. The combined content is then provided to a display device for presentation to the user.


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