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With intellectual property questions taking a larger portion of
Internet-related discussions in the last couple of years, this
move should keep people talking: digital video recorder TiVo
bought six patents tied to audience research and measurement,
integrating television signals to Internet access, and more, from
IBM at the end of March. In a statement, TiVo spokesman David Shane
said the company has "placed great emphasis on developing and
protecting our intellectual property, and we believe these patents
will help us toward that end." The patents are also said to
cover automatic rescheduling of recordings, content screening,
enhanced program information search, and electronic program guide
interface enhancements. The IBM deal follows TiVo¹s receiving of
five patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, raising
TiVo's total patent grants to 76, with a reported 106 still
pending, according to several reports. TiVo filed a report April
6 with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing the patent
purchase and expiration dates (between the end of 2015 and early
2020), but details about the financial side of the deal have not
been disclosed just yet. Analysts are said to believe that
TiVo's overall patent portfolio provides potential muscle in an
ongoing patent infringement battle with satellite TV company
EchoStar Communications, which TiVo sued more than a year ago,
charging EchoStar and its affiliates with infringing on TiVo's
time-warping patent. TiVo's SEC filing came on the same day the
company extended its relationship with DirecTV, TiVo's biggest new
subscriber source. The IBM patent deal came a few weeks after TiVo
won a contract to provide digital video recording technology to
Comcast, the U.S.'s top cable television operator.

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In article <weewoo-C03D0F.17282707042005@news-50.dca.giganews.com>,
weewoo <weewoo@nocable.com> wrote:

> With intellectual property questions taking a larger portion of
> Internet-related discussions in the last couple of years, this


<snip>

Here it is in readable form (and where the hell is this from, anyway?):

With intellectual property questions taking a larger portion of
Internet-related discussions in the last couple of years, this move
should keep people talking: digital video recorder TiVo bought six
patents tied to audience research and measurement, integrating
television signals to Internet access, and more, from IBM at the end of
March.

In a statement, TiVo spokesman David Shane said the company has "placed
great emphasis on developing and protecting our intellectual property,
and we believe these patents will help us toward that end."

The patents are also said to cover automatic rescheduling of
recordings, content screening, enhanced program information search, and
electronic program guide interface enhancements. The IBM deal follows
TiVo¹s receiving of five patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, raising TiVo's total patent grants to 76, with a reported 106
still pending, according to several reports.

TiVo filed a report April 6 with the Securities and Exchange Commission
revealing the patent purchase and expiration dates (between the end of
2015 and early 2020), but details about the financial side of the deal
have not been disclosed just yet.

Analysts are said to believe that TiVo's overall patent portfolio
provides potential muscle in an ongoing patent infringement battle with
satellite TV company EchoStar Communications, which TiVo sued more than
a year ago, charging EchoStar and its affiliates with infringing on
TiVo's time-warping patent.

TiVo's SEC filing came on the same day the company extended its
relationship with DirecTV, TiVo's biggest new subscriber source. The
IBM patent deal came a few weeks after TiVo won a contract to provide
digital video recording technology to Comcast, the U.S.'s top cable
television operator.

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On 04/08/2005 12:01 AM, Dr. Personality pondered briefly and then wrote:

> In article <weewoo-C03D0F.17282707042005@news-50.dca.giganews.com>,
> weewoo <weewoo@nocable.com> wrote:
>
>> With intellectual property questions taking a larger portion of
>> Internet-related discussions in the last couple of years, this
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Here it is in readable form (and where the hell is this from, anyway?):

It appears to be legit:
http://custom.marketwatch.com/cust [...] ias=/ht/nw


--
Steve (aka Peter Parker)
http://www.soundclick.com/rockermann

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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:54:11 -0500, "Steve M. Mann"
<rockermann@LOOSEITsteve-mann.com> wrote:

>On 04/08/2005 12:01 AM, Dr. Personality pondered briefly and then wrote:
>
>> In article <weewoo-C03D0F.17282707042005@news-50.dca.giganews.com>,
>> weewoo <weewoo@nocable.com> wrote:
>>
>>> With intellectual property questions taking a larger portion of
>>> Internet-related discussions in the last couple of years, this
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Here it is in readable form (and where the hell is this from, anyway?):
>
>It appears to be legit:
>http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/myway-com/news-story.asp?guid={296A0C50-B965-4748-8049-4DE81E84CE2B}&alias=/ht/nw


I guess if you can't create any new technology you have to buy the
rights to it.

Sad really.

Those comcast developers have a lot of work to do getting tivo up to
speed with current technology.

Sean

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"Sean" <none> wrote in message
news:q75d51terji4nfsp4i86ih0ru445s2jmna@4ax.com...
>
> Those comcast developers have a lot of work to do getting tivo up to
> speed with current technology.

Oh yeah, that was nice the way Comcast invented the DVR.

Ed
84HurstOlds@nowherenow.com

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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:13:44 -0400, "machinehead" <zzz@zzz.com> wrote:

>
>"Sean" <none> wrote in message
>news:q75d51terji4nfsp4i86ih0ru445s2jmna@4ax.com...
>>
>> Those comcast developers have a lot of work to do getting tivo up to
>> speed with current technology.
>
>Oh yeah, that was nice the way Comcast invented the DVR.
>
>Ed
>84HurstOlds@nowherenow.com
>

It's great the way they invented 2 tuners, HD + full Dolby via cable.

Too bad this was too complicated for Tivo.

Sean

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"Sean" <none> wrote in message
news:2dal51hb6ldp1gmr4rfqben7rf7q3cri3s@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:13:44 -0400, "machinehead" <zzz@zzz.com> wrote:
>
> It's great the way they invented 2 tuners, HD + full Dolby via cable.
>
> Too bad this was too complicated for Tivo.

So Comcast is better at contracting out hardware development, but their
software blows, and Tivo's hardware is underfeatured, but they have the
industry standard software. Hey, maybe they should do a strategic
partn...oh...nevermind.

Ed
84HurstOlds@nowherenow.com

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machinehead wrote:
> "Sean" <none> wrote in message
> news:2dal51hb6ldp1gmr4rfqben7rf7q3cri3s@4ax.com...
>
>>On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:13:44 -0400, "machinehead" <zzz@zzz.com> wrote:
>>
>>It's great the way they invented 2 tuners, HD + full Dolby via cable.
>>
>>Too bad this was too complicated for Tivo.
>
>
> So Comcast is better at contracting out hardware development, but their
> software blows, and Tivo's hardware is underfeatured, but they have the
> industry standard software. Hey, maybe they should do a strategic
> partn...oh...nevermind.
>
> Ed
> 84HurstOlds@nowherenow.com

Ed, don't try to use logic with him, to him it's a foreign concept. Just
for example here's a bit of logic; which came first the Comcast DVR w/
dual tuners and 5.1 sound, or the Directivo w/ the same features?
Considering that it was the latter, how could it be too complicated for
Tivo seeing as how they released it first? Considering HD, I'd say the
Comcast DVR's and Tivo's HD directivo were released roughly in the same
time frame.

But none of this will impinge upon his bubble of self-created reality.

Randy S.