TELEVISION AGGREGATOR

• US 20120221643A1
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB
• Original Assignee: CONFLUENCE COMMONS, INC.
• Inventors: Polis, Jared, Goyal, Payal, Herman, Jeffery D., Wu, Samuel C., Wu, Eric, McMahon, Michael D., Wilson, Michael C., Hartman, Andrew, Trzyna, Peter K., Calone, David L., Young, Chris, Shaver, Scott, Hyde, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 8,458,256 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing

Abstract

An aggregation system, process, article, and necessary intermediates, illustratively the system includes: a device capable of both networking and executing software programs, the device programmed from memory so that the aggregation apparatus: connects to a plurality of servers via the Internet, and authenticates itself with each of the plurality of servers, and retrieves information from each of the plurality of servers, and parses the information from each of the plurality of servers so as to produce an aggregation of parsed information, and renders the aggregation as output.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. An aggregation apparatus including:

a device capable of both networking and executing software programs, the device programmed so that the aggregation apparatus;

connects to a plurality of servers via the Internet, and then authenticates itself with each of the plurality of servers, and then retrieves information from each of the plurality of servers, and then parses the information from each of the plurality of servers so as to produce an aggregation of parsed information, and then renders the aggregation as output.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the device comprises a set top box.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the device comprises a television.