http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/ Engadget Comments for TiVo granted patent on recording Season Pass subscriptions by priority http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/-it's about this extended family with 3 main parts:
the dad & his new wife from Columbia and his son
the daughter and her family
the son and his boyfriend and their baby]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/It's an animated show about a family of modems. Dad is a cable modem and Mom's a DSL Modem. The kids are all ISDN Modems. There's also a special needs son who's a 1200k modem. He keeps trying but it just takes him longer than the others.]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
and good old grandpa 9600baud grandpa is getting kind of slow he always speaks of the good old .com days and is rambling about something called altavista. :P]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Yep, you're probably correct. I've got it all backwards.]]>Feb 18th 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
I think you mean dial in BBS not .com or altavista]]>Feb 18th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/.]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
..how have you


]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
They did innovate. That's what got them the patent. It's hard for them to compete with the cable companies though, since the DVR's the companies provide can be bundled. Most people who use TiVo have to jump through hoops to make it happen.

The TiVo name carried them for awhile, but even that is dying off.]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/But if they try to argue that simply prioritizing what to record in the event that number of shows > number of tuners, they would not be innovating, that's plain common sense. That would be like patenting a yield sign.]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
Adding a Top-of-the-Pops rating to your list of recording rules is not "innovating" by any stretch of the imagination. This is freshman CS stuff.]]>Feb 18th 2010 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
TiVo is THE poster child of defending their innovations from a market they single handily created. Everyone wants in on what they came up with, and unlike other sue happy companies, TiVo actually PRODUCES ACTUAL PRODUCTS.

You seriously can't fault TiVo for this. They are the reason why patents exist.]]>Feb 19th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
Now if only my Comcast HD DVR would support external storage, I'd be set. C'mon Comcast, er xFinity (stupid, stupid stupid name), why don't you let me plug in my USB HD?]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
And yup, if you read the patent which you can find here:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=tivo.ASNM.&OS=AN/tivo&RS=AN/tivo

you'll see that Claim 1 includes "inferred preferred program selections" (e.g. suggestions, don't you love lawyers?) which Yup, seems like if you don't do suggestions you're off the hook.

So either the lawyer didn't know what he was doing and should have broken out the filing so that the suggestions were part of a separate claim OR the patent office found prior art or considered it too obvious if you didn't include suggestions...]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
And I linked the patent PDF above, since that URL you have will eventually expire.]]>Feb 18th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
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No. It's not just a list. It's an ORDERED list. The innovation is in the ordering.]]>Feb 18th 2010 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/
Yep, and the way TiVo does it is pretty brilliant.

Today is probably a good day to own stock in TiVo. They had a ton of DVR patents before, but this one extends to not only to hardware, but into software as well. It's something nearly everything that records will be using.

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What Tivo does is pretty mundane. You are just too ignorant to realize otherwise. Unfortunately, it is this sort of ignorance that holds sway at the PTO and in the courts.

This patent nonsense deprives average practitioners the ability to benefit from the product of their own intellect.]]>Mar 4th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 18th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/tivo-granted-patent-on-recording-season-pass-subscriptions-by-pr/Feb 19th 2010 10:19AM