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TiVo Buys Six New Patents From IBM
Thomas Hawk writes "TiVo reported in an 8-K filing today that on March 31, 2005 they purchased six new patents from IBM. The patents purchased reportedly have to do with audience research and measurement, integration of television signals with internet access, automatic rescheduling of recordings, content screening, enhanced program information search and electronic program guide interface enhancements. For those of you privacy advocates out there you will love Patent No. 5,872,588: Method and apparatus for monitoring audio-visual materials presented to a subscriber. " The link has very little additional information.
One of the patents appears to be "A method for diversion of eyeballs in conjunction with the suspension of sound during commericals".
How are the patents "new"?? Patent #5,872,588 was filed in February 16, 1999 ... that's over 6 years old!
:).
IBM must have hired a really good cleaning crew to make TiVo think it was shiny and new
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Woah for a second there I read:
TiVo Buys Six Packs From IBM
and was very scared for both the legality of an older company selling beer to a younger company and also I was worried how that might corrupt an innocent little company like TiVo.
The link has very little additional information.
Well, you've done it now -- now we're not going to RTFA!!
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Maybe a restriction of some sort, but this sounds bad.
Some people invent. They don't care to bring the products to market, there are others that are very good at that. This allows them to sell their idea, get money, and move on to the next invention.
Some people even invent usefull stuff, although that is far less common.
Uh, right, like making a profit by selling the rights to their invention. Not everybody has an industrial complex in their backyard. Good call. +1 Insightful for sure.
Jeeze, everybody is an expert around here. I hope there's an alternate universe where IP professionals bitch and moan on an internet bulletin board about how IT professionals are idiots who can't perform their duties.
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Why that's very best kind of information! We can fill in all the gaps with our hopes, fears and dreams and then argue endlessly about them. Rock on Slashdot! Rock on.
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You're a communist shit.
I am as big of a privacy nut as the rest of you, but I'm also in the advertising industry
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