Patents by Inventor Neil Thomas Marten

Neil Thomas Marten 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).

  • Publication number: 20130055311
    Abstract: A method and system incorporate information on a stored content service feature with on screen display content utilizing a content receiver. The stored content service feature enables the content receiver to simultaneously record multiple of instances of content for a plurality of programming channels during a timeframe. The content receiver generates on screen display content as an overlay to live or previously recorded instances of content or as an electronic programming guide, and the information for the stored content service feature incorporated within the on screen display content may be selected. In response to the selection, the content receiver may transmit a previously recorded instance of content from the plurality of simultaneously recorded instances of content, information for instances of content that have been, will be and/or are available to be recorded in connection with the stored content service feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Morgan Hayden Kirby, Kristen Leigh Swanson, Karen Taxier, Neil Thomas Marten, Luke VanDuyn, Tony Nguyen