{
  "patent_number": "US RE44685",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Interactive Television Systems Send Applications Alongside Video Streams",
  "original_title": "USRE44685E1 - Apparatus for transmitting and receiving executable applications as for a multimedia system, and method and system to order an item using a distributed computing system",
  "summary": "A system for broadcasting interactive software applications alongside video programs so that a television or set-top box can run them in real-time.",
  "what_it_does": "The patent describes a way to bundle interactive software with a video broadcast. It uses a data stream where video packets and application packets are mixed together using time-division multiplexing. A client device, like a set-top box, acts as a filter; it identifies which packets belong to the video and which belong to the application code. It then assembles the application and runs it, allowing the software to overlay graphics or sound directly onto the video program, creating an interactive experience for the viewer.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover applications delivered solely over the internet via standard HTTP/IP protocols.",
    "Does not cover video-on-demand systems where the application is not bundled in the same multiplexed stream as the video.",
    "Does not cover non-interactive video broadcasting where no auxiliary application code is executed."
  ],
  "filed": "2001-07-10",
  "granted": "2013-12-31",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "OpenTV Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/opentv-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Vincent Dureau",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/vincent-dureau"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alain Delpuch",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/alain-delpuch"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kuriacose Joseph",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/kuriacose-joseph"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ansley Wayne Jessup",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/ansley-wayne-jessup"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 1,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "telecommunications",
    "software"
  ],
  "abstract": "A distributed computer system, as for transmitting and receiving executable multimedia applications, includes a source of a continuous data stream repetitively transfering data representing a distributed computing application and a client computer, receiving the data stream, for extracting the distributed computing application representative data from the data stream, and executing the extracted distributed computing application.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/RE44685/noise-cancelling-headphones",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/RE44685/noise-cancelling-headphones/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE44685",
  "relatedPatents": []
}