Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra – Remote procedure call
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-29
2005-03-29
El-Hady, Nabil (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra
Remote procedure call
C709S203000, C709S228000, C709S229000, C719S329000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06874152
ABSTRACT:
A system for accessing content over a network of computers. The system includes a database system, a content provider interface, a viewer interface, and a virtual remote control. The database system maps channels codes to network addresses as well as to content descriptions. The network address identifies a unit of information or entertainment content. The channel codes include a genre code and a numerical code. The content provider interface assists content providers in entering the network addresses and the content descriptions for their information and entertainment content into the database system. The viewer interface includes a guide (which may be printed or electronic) and a network browser. The viewer interface displays the content descriptions and allows the user to select and view the unit of content on a channel. The virtual remote control is software implemented and allows the viewer to access the channels or to surf through the channels for a given genre. In different embodiments, the viewer can use a microphone, game pad, infra red controller, mouse, keyboard or other computer peripheral, a speech recognition module and speech synthesizer module to control the virtual remote control or the viewer interface.
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Kurfist Lewis Andrew
Sasso Jim
Vermeire Brian Christopher
El-Hady Nabil
NOWavision, LLC
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
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