Interactive video distribution systems – Operator interface – To facilitate tuning or selection of video signal
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-04
2006-07-04
Srivastava, Vivek (Department: 2617)
Interactive video distribution systems
Operator interface
To facilitate tuning or selection of video signal
C725S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07073189
ABSTRACT:
In a broadband communications system, e.g., a cable system, programming content can be readily reserved and accessed for viewing using interactive program guides in accordance with the invention. Such programming content may include in-progress programs, future programs and previously broadcast programs which are recorded at a headend in the cable system, and which may or may not have overlapping broadcast times. In addition, the user may reserve programs at a set-top terminal, and may also do so remotely from the terminal through a communications network such as, the Internet, a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a wireless telephone network, etc.
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Srivastava Vivek
Time Warner Interactive Video Group Inc.
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