Microsoft Corporation v. TIVO Inc

Filing 1

COMPLAINT For Patent Infringement against defendant(s) TIVO Inc. (Receipt # 0981-2310118), filed by Microsoft Corp.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Civil Cover Sheet, # 6 Report on Patents and Trademarks (AO Form120), # 7 Summons)(Harrigan, Arthur)

EXHIBIT D

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
July 27, 2010
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT ANNEXED HERETO IS A TRUE COPY FROM
THE RECORDS OF THIS OFFICE OF:

U.S. PATENT: 5,758,258
ISSUE DATE: May 26, 1998

By Authority of the
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

T. LAWRENCE
Certifying Officer

I/IIIINIIIIB/III
US0057582.qKA

United States Patent

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[54] SELECTIVE DELIVERY O1~
PROGRAMMING FOR INTER~CTIYE
~EO SYSTEM

[21] Appl. No.: SlT, l~
[22] Piled: Aug. 21,
[51] Int. O."
H~4N 7/1~ H04H
[52] U~. CL ................ 4SS/S.1; 348/~; 348/1~
348/12; 4.q.q/~.2

Patent Number:

$,758,2,58

5~3,610 11/1991 Alwudish.
5,583576 12/1996 Pedman et d ............... 348/g0~

ACT
The preseat invention includes a method ~ selectively
delivering prosxammin8 to a viewer ration m an interactive
televisim ~ televideo (IT) system. Determinations as to

identifies ~ ~s of the aveilable proassigned a persaeal pro~rammi~ se:vk~ level. The per-

348/12. 1~, 7. 906. 461, 4~9. 47"3, 476-479;
7114. 7/16. 71173
Reterenm Cited
US. P~fl’/~’T ~S
4,081,~4 3/I97J ladaen.
4,225,884 9/1~0 l~eck et aL.
4,228,543 10/1980 Jaclmea.
X(D8,211 8/1991 HaUenbeek.

aad inaplrepi~ programming f~ the viewe~. The IT
pre~ammi~ availal/e at a ~ime wilh the appmpdate pro-

s~vke level.
16 C]sInw, 4 ~ Sheets

VIEWERS ASSIGNED [
IDENTIFIERS AND
SERVICE LEVELS

SERVICE

RETRIEVE SERVICE
LEVELS AND IDENTIFY
APPROPRIATE SERVICE
LEVEL
COMPARE PROGRAMMING
DATA WITH APPROPRIATE
SERVICE LEVEL AND
IDI~ITIFY APPROPRIATE
PROGRAMMING

COMPARE PROGRAMMING
DATA WITH DEFAULT
SERVICE LEVEL AND
IDENTIFY

~ t"~’l~
DELIVER APPROPRIATE
PROGRAMMING TO
VIEWER STATION

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FIG, 1 .~,~ \ CON’I’ROLLER I-"1

CONTROLLER[- --

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~ VIDEO FEED b 214 _1 WAN
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i
DIGITAL

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II

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I i--SERV’CE IH
SERVERS III

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CONTROLLER ~

F~
CO~ROLLER~

N~ORK

I’"~"1 I CONTINUOUS
~ II MED=A ~ I

~REC~IVE~ I "
I SYSTEM h218

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10

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FIG. 2
(,-.-62
ANALOG
DEMODULATOR

60

DIGITAL
DECODER

66
--.- 62+1

SUBSYSTEM
"62bl GRAPHICSI

74

NETWORK
INTERFACE

VIDEO
PROCESSOR
SUBSYSTEM

COMMUNICATION
INTERPRETATION
SYSTEM

70

INFRARED INPUT
¯ AND DECODER

FIG. 3
91

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MEMORY
SYSTEM

76

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MIXER

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VIEWERS ASSIGNED
IDENTIFIERS AND
SERVICE LEVELS

F

STORE PROGRAMMINGIDATA

iACTIVATE DISPLAY SET ]
108

VIEWER
IDENTIFIED
?

NO

RETRIEVE SERVICE
LEVELS AND IDENTIFY
APPROPRIATE SERVICE
LEVEL
COMPARE PROGRAMMING
DATA WITH APPROPRIATE
SERVICE LEVEL AND
IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE
PROGRAMMING

OBTAIN DEFAULT
SERVICE LEVEL
COMPARE PROGRAMMING
DATA WITH DEFAULT
SERVICE LEVEL AND
IDENTIFY

DELIVER APPROPRIATE
PROGRAMMING TO
VIEWER STATION

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FIG. 5
114b ~ Watch Any

=1

114a ~ Watch R, not NR
116 ~ [ Program 1, PG ~
Program 2, G
I Pmgram3, R

Jl18 120

Program 1
Program 2
Program 3
Program 5

Viewer
Content
Filter

I

Progr.am 4, NR
Program 5, G

FIG. 6
124,~

j126

i Viewer 1, PG not NR ~
[ Viewer 2, R not NR ~

I Viewer 3, Any
I Viewer 4, Any

Setup
DCF

128

Default Viewer
can view:
G, PQ, and not
NR Programming

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~ DELIVr.RY OF
PROGP, AMMING BOlt INTERACTIVE
TELL’VIDEO SYSTEM

The Ia’eseat Invention Includes a method of sele~vdy
dellverin8 iroamnmins to n viewer ration en an intera~ve

~ present invex~ion mintcs to intn’active televb~ cr
telcvidco systems and. in pmicukr, to a m~thod o~ lXOVidins to a subsaiber a selective level of teinvideo pregrmumine suitable for vicw~s th~ ~re ~mcisled with the
subscriber msd receive the lxosrmnminB.

n central control node that delive~ proanmming to mnltiple
subscrt’bas er vi~w~s, Hach vlcwc~ has a video dispiny set
(e.g.. a tcl~.sion reMver) and 8n assockted ineractive
ce~rolle~ that is z~nsive to Input from the viewer for

Conventional cable and satellite televisim uansmiuion is
evolving into interactive television ~ t~ideo 0T) p/s- ts able to ~ accesslbte by n viewe~

lX~ramming, including video ~ and ~
lregsammin8 is expected to include ¯ wide variety ef

rather It~ mlely the channel ~ netw~k eatwin8 the
With reference to content-brined delivery of

pammb&~dusnatively.thcadnltsinnbomeboldmaywbh ~o ~ at n sek=tcd vinw~ ~ b assJjnnd n pc,onal

neatly by not including it in the services subscribed. A
teisphon~) to actlvato the chtnneJ, u in the cas~ ~pey-pervlcw teJ~vislon puerammi~
A cuavmtion~ ~m recdvez can be fitted wilh a
fl~-besed lockout s3~em that jrevents operelon ~ the
Whenever no vinwer at a viewer staion is ident~ed. ~he

controlling programming reception suffer from

remictivee~thepenonalpmamnmingsetvicelevebofllte

hundreds ef cbsnnds, such chaan~-by-dmmd ~qmnins-

service invd. if no viewer is ~ The IT sytmn

M~eove~, channd blockisj is indiscdmim~ m to the wah __lr,~.t-~_ ~.,*d dmacta/s~ that onfcun to the
Iro~zmminsactuall~cazrind(machunn~andmlx~vent m aplrqrinteviewersetvicelevele~thedefmdtpmpannninj

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pciate fro" all ldanlified viewm’s at a vie~. ~ statioa. Identl- 8ral with video d/splay set IS. Mm~over. any viewer station
dmanels, a v/ewer is spared a siguiftcaat eff~t in determla- s from central comlrol mode 12 sad control the associated
pmnmiog aplrolrhte /tr all viewm nsseclated with a Ceatrell~ video d/splay set 18 of a eonventio~ analog
viewer station may be delivered aut~at/eally evea tn the
type may Include. f~ example, delivering an analog video
absence of specific ldent/flcatioa of viewm,
alsnat d/rectty tovideo d/splay m 18 f~r d/Jp~. onvmtlog
The fm’egoing sad other features sad advantages of to a d/gitolvideosijnsltoa suilableanalog f©rmfegd/splay.
FrefemM mml~Iimeats of the Im~eat iaventloa witl be nmt, e ar ~x~uting a amtlmter application ~ includes displays
x~.ad/ly aplmreat born the following detailed description. on dbplay set 18,
whid~ proceeds w~ referemce to the accompany/us drawInteractLve ~t~on mntmllers M transmit disital infenna~
tion to and receive cUsltal infunuatim from cemral matml
node 12, The di~i~ Infcrmatlon ~deally relatm to appli~ DESCR1PIION OF THR DRAWINGS

1~3. 1 is a block diagram of an interactive tdevision
system used f~ the preferred embodiment ef this invention.
]~3. 2 is a block diogram of an inmaaive ration
tion.
I~3. 3 is a plan diagram of a viewer cemtrol unit fog
Irovid/n8 viewer inlmt to tire lnmactive statieu commaer of
PIG. 2.
l~O. 4 is a flow d/a~na of a m~hod of seleclivdy
lag to the irment iaveatioa.
!~3. S Is a functional block diqrm repn~ntiog identification of apirOlZi~ propamnda8 in accordance with the
method of Fl13. 4.
F/G. 6/s a functieaal block diagram relresentfag deterthe ra~ted of FIG, &

detafl.

lets ~0 and cenlrd onlrol node 12 can be cazried by

trollers 20 seed inf~mat~ to ceatral mntrol mede 12 on a
termsa.lal, m~,a,,,,, n u~,~ ~ ~s, mq~m~ emlx~hnm~ of ~lritl
cmnU’ol n(~le 12 h dnsa~Lb~d ~ ~ru~te~ ~il bdm~,
d/splay set 18 and canmmnk.ating with cenlral eontrol node
12. Ststioa ona~tler ~0 includes an iaput (,~ tlmt ~
eommunic~on e~ infm~d/ea frem cantrd omrel aerie 12
video decider ~ alld It ~ nL’t’wol’k

Demodulat~ f~a funaimm as a onventimal televidou
video dgnals rceeived frem eantnd ontrei merle L1 at lsput
wah re/~.nce to widely avs/lable systems and standards.
iadud/ag eonveatioaal analog ~ ~ and
portents of IT system 1O nmy be Implemeated w/th a variety

laveat3.em beyo~ standard televisioa-besed systmas. As two

A cmlrM Im~essl~ urn# (C~U) ~ ht onjunslion with a

televideo (11") system 10 baviog a central oatrol nede 12
~hat toummlts progmmmimg over a nstwerk 14 to multiple
viewer stations (e.&, be~s) 1~. The prepu~og may
indudemnd~mdogv/deo~sts(e.8.1~’YSC.PAL e0 infamati~ framceatrdcxmtr~ node 1Z
ompt~-exemted applt~om.

~ ca video ~ ~et 18. A video pece~t sub-

set 18 (e.&. a Wlevidon receive~) and u interactive statlen ~ the ~ of video tmat~, iscladiag deeom~nsiug

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A mixer 7~ ~.mives a v/deo dbi~y sipsl f~xa video Channel. for exaatple. Pt’emfum 2 services may include
pocesse~ subsysteat 74 and ~ image sigmls from pay-per-view ~ ct ether zeslltcted access

se/ected viewer stadoa
two adult im~nts, a teenage miner child, ud a~
Refining to 1~3. 3. viewer eontrel unit ?1 Includes an
infrared traesmitt~ window 8~ tbroush which control unit xo
71 emits htfi’ered signals to Jnfxared input 70 of station
controller :~O. A dimctlond control keypad ~0 allows a

TABLB I

rosy initi~e cr ~ttv~ se/ectioas ~ dClS~SinZ ms sctioa ts c~s~n
key ~1 msd m~ em~ munatc vslues wl~ numeric k~7 psd. sm~
clmm
I~3. 4 Is a flew diagram ~ewin~ a melhed e~ dcliverlng ~
t~ a paOJeular viewe~ station I~ pm~mmmt~ havlng pc- ce~o~
izegmnmin8 refers to maldag it available to m" access~le
by a viewer,
The pmdetmaiaed chsrsct~stics may gelate to the cow

Table 1 shows 8hat ~he difre~nt viewers ef ~he selected
viewer mttea 1~ have dil~uud personal popanming
service levels rei~tn8 to the classes 8rid centent.~lreSram.

with a selectai viewer station 1~ is assigned a viewer x5 foaowing descrlpdm is directed to using Ihe difru~ ~ypes
ideadfler such as. for exaznpie, a permnal identification ef pmond I~Opmmnin8 saviee levels together, but would
stered by IF system 10 in. fe~ exmnide, a service level dentty.
4o based proem1 pregramming service levels. The teeas~
chad is sssiped a cement-based persoad prosramming
sesvice kvel ef Rmd ~t lqR. which aUows the teenage
dn’ld tn receive lm~mmming tint is reed R ~ m~

stmton 15 Is 8ssJped a persmd prosrmnmin8 sen, ice level.
The personal lropamming service level ~ each viewer ts

to receive Iresramnd~ star is ratut PO ~r m~e mu~
tively (Le.. (3). Neither chad is tttowed to receive umated

lrommm~ns (L~. ~

Process block IM indicates 8bat l~jramming dart rep-

scheduled f~r transmission over IT system 10 Js stored in
used.

ss spmdln~ to flms~ aasip~ m ~l~ vlmm~ AIt~nafl~ ~

Association of ~ (Le.. G. PG. 1q3-13. R. NC-17. ~r X.

rains pdde (re’O) dmtme ~t cairn1 eoeroloode ~
Pmeess block 106 lndiestes dmt eae ef the viewers at ~he

nny include ea~ended me4ion l~cture ~S e~ the to 8ssum that the identifl~tion e~ the vlewe~ eoatinues to

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any viewe~ associated with the selected viewer station 16
Ires beea identified by IT system 10.1T .ystem lOideatl~es
aviewe~whenever his~ber PINls ceteredinto Interactive

viewe~ service level of a viewer assodated with the selected
viewer station 16.
1~3. 6 is a functional Idock ~ mpreseatln~ the

tess block lie wheneve~ one cw mcre viewer identifiers ~we

based personal ~q savlce level,, and the viewers

the iclcntified vicwm ar by mine other ommon ~-l,,tin-,hl.n
level azn:q)onds to the prnonal pm~amming service level
between the prnmal lXOgrammi~ service leveb of t~ ~s e( vlewa" L tho lxe-tcenage ddld.
cealralconU~node 12 or by intematve station eonWoller ~0

defitult view~ sczvke level as allowing G and PG zated

An appmpflate l~O~amming se~i.ce leveJ Is ldeutffied as default eoatent viewer level ~ to tbe mint restrle.
vlewm are iden~l ~ indicate they are no lonser receiv- ~n tire of the personal programming service levels.
in~ the lm~ramm~ (e.8.. log-~ acaxding to a selec~t
lZecedure. An ~ pmpmmin8 service lever arm
may be determined periodically if less than all the identi~ed
vlewen reenten their PINs when invited te do so.
Pmceas block ll~ ind/catas eat IT system 10 cempares

mine with the default ~8 ~svice level to identi/~
Process block D:I indicates that the ddiverable program.

describedw/threfercece topmcen blockleJmayalmaa- 3s custemer service appi/catiom by which a viewe~ a~ ~e
as real-lime pro~tmmi~ data. The cmnlmison step e~ programming provided by IT system 10. It wm be

1~. S b e lane/me1 block disjram repeseml~ the

tiondblockl14anq3msentstheRralingf~randtheadu- ~o ststion 16(e.&.houselmid).AGeaendviewer would typi-

Eanaioul block lt4b represents the unlimited ratiq ~ e~e
ef the adult imnmts.
PUnctimal bled~s 116 n~etent ~be puietmained ctaractedstics ~ ~ available pregrams I, ~. & 4. and S
Functional block 118 represents the d__,~,.~dn~

vtewer to ceatml the mbm:rptioa e~ bili~ ~
umebted wah t~e ~Jeeted vtewa" ~tioa 16. define
l~mOul p’o~.’mmla8 re’vice leveh for all viewm asm-

pugrmnmin~ Funaional block L~O rela’ese~ the ideatlfl- mse, lated amibutes er services. The Subsca’ber muld aece~"
calion of the appupdse pmpannsd~ as ~ 1. 2. &
and lntmtct wah such applications with viewer conU~ unit
aad S. Pmsmm 4 ts not aplZelZlate lZ~’anm~q beaune It 71 in ceepa~at wah dbplsys ratdaed ea v/deo dfq~lay
Is umated and does net oafunn to the permul lZOgramset 18 by interactive statioa ceaWdler 20. P~ersbly, only

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respeme to explicit infmateoa requests from ~e view~
A multiplexing system 212 receives and mixes the freIn an alternative embodiment, a vieweg could reqnest quency modulated dfoitsl infoanattoe fnxn modulator sysf~om IT system 10 progmmmi~ data of the type described tem 210 and standml analog video slpnls obtgned from with re~erenc¢ to FIG. 4 and process block 104. The viewer
standard analog video feed 214 and deliven an rF~
(e.g.. a parent) ceuld request infematlea about the class cr
siptal to intamive netwmk 14. Analog video feed may be
content of a specific lZopam (e.&. a lresram that b ~0 e~ include a uteUite dowalink, a ealte receiver, cr say
available at a futu~ time) ~ eouldmluest f~ a specifletlme
locmLly ~a~ml~! pro~amnd~ A xuvc~ dm~l receiv~
a tisti~ of Im~rmmlag e~a specified clau ~ wah speci- synl~ 218 fete/yes amd demoduls~ ~ ommumicaaed content. 5ud~ ~ dm requests in IT systan
10 could be made independently af requests ~ ir~rmnnmde through 8 viewer lntezfaee geaentted by an eleetroak

televisiea aetwerks.
Refeai~ to F]~. 1 eeatnd eoa~ol node 12 includes a

frmn indivLdual hua~ frames and brief video clips to ~0 viewerlncludes detecting an absence o~any viewer idcntl.
full-lea~h moltoa idctur~,
tier lndicstin8 etat no viewa b ldemffled as ensased with
Savas 2~ ,’,~,~,,~,-,~_~ with station contmllen 12 vh the selectnd viewer statiou and retrieving a default vicwer
noustzusf~gmode(,~M) sw/tch.l~r~fmm
4. The melhod ~ dsim 3 in which plural vkwcr#
sesves~ ~ to station eontrollers 20. netum~ ommnnica- ~s allocated w~h ~he selected viewer station, eaeh of the
liea switch ~08 ~ disUal lnfonmtioa receLved from viewers hsvin~ usisz~d to t~ one or at lens1 ant
~ 2e2 in s stmsdm’d Iddkectioul ~ commuaic~ second ~ lrO~’~unming scrvic~ Icvcls. the

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ated wi/h a selected view~ stalio~ a memory associated
a permml ~,~g ~ ~ s~ ~ ~e
beiag auiSaed to lhe selected viewe~
$. The melhod of claim 1 la which Ihe iwosxammiag s

mlion.each~’lheviewcnhavlng aulgnedtothemenec~ 8ramming service levels st~ed in Ihe me, nax’y leg the

~. The meetod ef claim I in which ~he lm~tenalaed

~. In an intermive televideo system havin~ a central

L~ ThememcgY °fdahn 1O ftml~ ~PreBram-

l& In an/nteractive te/evideo system havi~ a central

viewer stalions that include video display set, ope~bly :tO viewer stations that/uclude video dlsplty sets operably

interactive station onU,~"__.en. a method of selectively del/v- plural viewer stations and receivi,~ inf’ermation from the
~iag~toa~edviewer mtioa.~: ~ ~’mmiag iafozm~ea to a selected viewer ratios. orn,i
identifying a puktambzd ctmactais,ic ~ IroPam- pris~:
ideal/f~g a default profrmmnins sendce level assigned

8ramming available fzom Ihe interactive televideo

ompadaS ~he lxedeematmd dmacted~ ef ,he avail-

:qxesented by m.ltJple classes;

vice level auisaed to Ihe selected viewer stst/oa;

request ~Jating to -t least a class sad Ihe pro~ammins

miagwithleedetm~eddmmedslktlmcoMm’mto
~

lrovidingthevieweralxopamminsduractaizstioaof

14. The method e~ daim 13 in which the peo~mmmJng
S. The melhod e{ latm 7 in whkh l/mzl vlewen aze
assochted with Ihe se.lec~ v/ewer sin/on, each of the . ~requeatfndudesarequestf~r~
soad lresrmmin8 mice level ~es~ctras access to prosesvke level msipted to ~he selected viewer ststtoa is the

teat dmactahacs e~ ate availd)le lxostamndn8 with the
4s tedstics onfa’m to the specified elm.

~. The methed ef claim 7 ht which pimal viewegs ~e

from Ihe v/b-wet a spedaed l~mBrammias lime. oa~dag

viewess having mdgned to Ihem a v4.ewcr identlfle~ the

the available Iregrmnming at the speclaed thne with the

viewe~ statioa,
1~. la ,m iate~active ~ syat, mn havin~ a cemral

mtaed ceateat clm’mt~sti~ eom’~t to ~te specified class.
l& The melhod o~ cbim 1~ ht wkich the pm~mmala~

viewer stsdoas Ibat fltclnde v/deo dfsplay sets opentbly
pizal viewer statiom 8rid t~dvinj lnf~m~lm from ~he
lnlmmivestationconUoUnz.pluzalviewenbel~moci-

Ss PreSmmm~S that is avaflal~ at a specdlled tlme and ~te

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