Patents by Inventor Patricia Ellen Martin

Patricia Ellen Martin 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).

  • Delivering a geographic-specific comprehensive program guide
    Patent number: 7793321
    Abstract: Providing a program guide for digital and analog broadcast television channels specific to a geographic region. A computing device sends a program guide request including a geographic identifier to another computing device. In response, the other computing device filters a master program guide as a function of the geographic identifier to create the requested program guide. The created program guide includes a call sign, physical channel, major channel, and content listing for each of the digital broadcast television channels. In one embodiment, the digital broadcast television channels conform the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew M. Simms, Stephen Richard Husak, Patricia Ellen Martin