METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING TELEVISION SIGNALS WITH INTERNET ACCESS

Patent №

US 6,169,541

Granted

2001-01-02

Filed 1998

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09086787

A method, computer program product and system are provided for integrating television signals with internet access. A television signal is received and divided into images and universal resource locators (URLs). Checking is performed to identify a filtered image user selection. Responsive to a filtered image user selection not being identified, the image is altered to visually emphasize URLs. Then the visually altered image is rendered for display. Responsive to a filtered image user selection being identified, the filtered image without URLs is rendered for display. The user enters user selected preferences and used selected filtering for display.

Natural languageH04N 21/8586H04N 21/426H04N 21/4312H04N 21/4622H04N 21/47H04N 21/4782

AI classification

Natural language0.86
Vision0.36
Evolutionary computation0.23
Planning0.19
Knowledge representation0.03
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

assignment · 92150504

TIVO INC.

assignment · 166300099

Assignors

SMITH, RICHARD MICHAEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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