A digital video recorder (DVR) application running alongside a television client component allows users to record media content on the gaming console. The DVR application also integrates itself with the console menu. Once integrated, users can record media content while playing games. Alternatively, users can record content when the gaming console is turned off.
Showing posts with label DVR/PVR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DVR/PVR. Show all posts
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Microsoft patent on PVR Functions in Game Console
It completely eludes me how this isn't prior art. Microsoft's Xbox is a PC and PCs have been able to record digital video in the background for a long long time. Myth TV comes to mind.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Virtualization - Patent Reform Bill Stuck in Committee
The patent reform legislation that companies like Microsoft, Intel, Oracle and Cisco were hoping would reduce litigation and improve patent quality hit a ...
Legal injunction bars Dish Network from selling 4 models of DVRs
A little over a week ago, an appeals court determined that Dish Network (formerly Echostar Communications) had indeed violated a software patent held by ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Legal injunction bars Dish Network from selling 4 models of DVRs
By Erica Ogg
A little over a week ago, an appeals court determined that Dish Network (formerly Echostar Communications) had indeed violated a software patent held by TiVo on digital video recorders. (Credit: CNET Networks) ...
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Forgent software patent litigators strike again.
HTML Fixit.com says "Forgent is one company that makes me wonder if my dislike of Microsoft’s business tactics could have been better directed at them. Forgent has been handed around 100 million dollars for the compression patent that they claim is used in the Jpeg image compression standard. Apparently that is not enough as they’ve just added Microsoft to their list of targets. This comes in the same month that they have started targeting DVR companies, no doubt expecting the same hand outs they’ve been getting from the likes of Sony and Adobe. Microsoft has asked that the court declare them non infringing and invalidate the patent in question"
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