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US 2010/0169918 A1Published application
Community Programmed Television
OwnerRalph E. Biesemeyer, Mark T. Feuerstraeterinventors
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Abstract
A community programmed television (CPT) network comprises a provider of community programmed television schedules and a plurality of community programmed television receivers. The television receivers may receive schedules from the provider and execute activities such as displaying a television program, playing a game, chatting, and shopping at times specified by the schedule.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- creating a schedule for a plurality of activities that specifies a time of day at which to initiate each activity of the plurality of activities, and
- transferring the schedule to a television receiver to cause the television receiver to initiate each activity at the time of day specified for the activity.
A television receiver, comprising
- a network interface to operably couple the television receiver to a network,
- a video interface to operably couple the television receiver to a television,
- storage to store instructions and a schedule that specifies a plurality of activities and a temporal order for the plurality of activities, and
- a processor to execute the instructions, the processor in response to executing the instructions causes the television receiver to
- obtain the schedule from a provider via the network interface, and
- to execute the activities per the schedule obtained from the provider.
3 more elements
A machine readable medium comprising a plurality of stored instructions that in response to being executed result in a television receiver,
- receiving a schedule that specifies a plurality of activities and a time at which to initiate a first activity of the plurality of activities, and
- executing the schedule by initiating the first activity of the plurality of activities at the specified time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.