Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Kochy

Jeffrey Kochy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for transmitting and utilizing electronic programs guide information
    Publication number: 20070162934
    Abstract: Television schedule information transmission and utilization systems transmit TV schedule data and associated network control messages provided by computer as packets via the Video Blanking Interval (VBI) lines in the TV signal from various television program providers. This data is acquired by regional data processing systems and forwarded by the regional data processing systems to subscriber units and used to construct an internal database. This internal database can be accessed by the subscriber unit to display a TV schedule for the channels that are received by the user's TV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: StarSight Telecast, Inc.
    Inventors: John Roop, Alan Ebright, Jeffrey Kochy, David Warden, Konstantine Sokolik, Giambattista Alegiani