Interactive video distribution systems – Program – message – or commercial insertion or substitution
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-19
2006-09-19
Srivastava, Vivek (Department: 2623)
Interactive video distribution systems
Program, message, or commercial insertion or substitution
C725S112000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07111314
ABSTRACT:
In delivering an entertainment program over a communications network, e.g., a cable TV network, interactive application data for realizing interactive features in the entertainment program are interjected into the program stream carrying the entertainment program on an as needed basis. Because the entire channel bandwidth is temporarily dedicated for transmission of the interactive application data, whose amount is relatively small compared with that of the video and audio data of the programming content, the interactive application data when transmitted appears as a short “burst,” causing a virtually unnoticeable interruption in the programming content delivery.
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Buehl Joseph
DeFreese Darryl L.
Kimble David M.
Urdang Erik G.
Srivastava Vivek
Straub Michael P.
Straub & Pokotylo
Time Warner Entertainment Company L.P.
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