Thomson Consumer Electronics
840Patents
0Active
840Granted
46Portfolio score
Filing activity: Feb 16, 1988 → Jul 10, 2001
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5929850A | Interactive television system and method having on-demand web-like navigational capabilities for displaying requested hyperlinked web-like still images associated with television content | Electricity | 568 | Expired |
| US5825884A | Method and apparatus for operating a transactional server in a proprietary database environment | Electricity | 561 | Expired |
| US5903816A | Interactive television system and method for displaying web-like stills with hyperlinks | Electricity | 427 | Expired |
| US5867226A | Scheduler employing a predictive agent for use in a television receiver | Electricity | 389 | Expired |
| US5828370A | Video delivery system and method for displaying indexing slider bar on the subscriber video screen | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 358 | Expired |
| US5682206A | Consumer interface for programming device | Electricity | 338 | Expired |
| US5754651A | Processing and storage of digital data and program specific information | Electricity | 279 | Expired |
| US5430485A | Audio/video synchronization in a digital transmission system | Electricity | 276 | Expired |
| US5557338A | Television receiver using received channel guide information and a secondary video signal processor for displaying secondary channel information | Electricity | 273 | Expired |
| US6034925A | Accessing control method for identifying a recording medium in a jukebox | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 250 | Expired |
| US5398074A | Programmable picture-outside-picture display | Electricity | 239 | Expired |
| US5867208A | Encoding system and method for scrolling encoded MPEG stills in an interactive television application | Electricity | 229 | Expired |
| US4914517A | Tuner control apparatus having tune-by-label capability and using alphabetical label storage | Electricity | 221 | Expired |
| US5625693A | Apparatus and method for authenticating transmitting applications in an interactive TV system | Electricity | 220 | Expired |
| US6016348A | Decoding system and data format for processing and storing encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video data | Electricity | 215 | Expired |
| US5448568A | System of transmitting an interactive TV signal | Electricity | 206 | Expired |
| US4866434A | Multi-brand universal remote control | Physics | 199 | Expired |
| US5515106A | Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a program guide for television services | Electricity | 194 | Expired |
| US5400075A | Adaptive variable length encoder/decoder | Electricity | 193 | Expired |
| US5915090A | Apparatus for transmitting a distributed computing application on a broadcast television system | Electricity | 192 | Expired |
| US5819034A | Apparatus for transmitting and receiving executable applications as for a multimedia system | Electricity | 182 | Expired |
| USD430143S | Remote control | General | 179 | Expired |
| USD363933S | Remote control | General | 177 | Expired |
| US5642153A | Consumer interface for a digital television system | Electricity | 174 | Expired |
| US5933500A | Adaptive decoding system for processing encrypted and non-encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video data | Physics | 170 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.