Digital video recording device ticker playback system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8331761
APP PUB NO 20080219647A1
SERIAL NO

12154202

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A system and method of controlling the playback of the event stream information of a particular television channel by a digital video recorder (DVR). The DVR is a computer system configured with a hard drive and video decoder/encoder devices. The hardware environment of DVR (100) includes an input interface (102), tuner (105), MPEG-2 encoder (120), MPEG-2 decoder (110), external mass storage device (125), a central processing unit (CPU) (135), internal memory (127), operating system (140), and event stream generator (250). The system and method of controlling the playback function of the present invention is primarily implemented within event stream generator (250). Event stream generator (250) generates a new video stream for playback onto the television by incorporating the broadcasted event stream information into the selected recorded video stream.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Dolph, Blaine H Western Springs, US 79 855

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