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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsPaul R. Cooper, Yvonne N. Ellefson, Arleen Camaganacan Fernando, Imran Arif Maskatia, Matthew Ryan Patterson, Matt Henry Van der Staay, Chad Michael Williams
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Television tuner emulation techniques are described. In an implementation, a television tuner is emulated through execution of software on a processing system by a computing device, the emulated television tuner includes functionality to obtain television content over an Internet Protocol (IP) based network. The functionality of the emulated television tuner is exposed to one or more applications that are executed by the computing device such that the application is not aware that the television tuner is emulated through execution of the software.
A method comprising:
A computing device comprising:
One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions that are stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a computing device, causes the computing device to emulate a television tuner and reformat television content that was obtained via an Internet-Protocol based network to appear as if obtained via one or more broadcast channels to one or more applications that are executable by the computing device.
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