Log processing of channel tunes and channel tune times generated from a television processing device

US7743394B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Geoffrey R. Smith · Mountain View, US
• Daniel J. Kaustuv · Palo Alto, US
• Daniel J. Zigmond · Menlo Park, US
• Jay Shrauner · San Francisco, US
• John Alastair Hawkins · London, GB
• Simon Michael Rowe · Finchampstead, GB
• Michael A. Killianey · London, GB
• Yaroslav Volovich · Cambridge, GB
• Iain Merrick · London, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2007
• Grant date: Jun 22, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 8, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N21/812
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Reporting data related to content processing devices, e.g., television devices, are processed to identify channel tunes and corresponding tune times of the content processing devices. Automatically generated channel tunes based on the corresponding tune times are identified. Content items that are aired during a time period defined by the corresponding tune times can be adjusted.