[April 30, 2013] OpenTV Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 30 -- OpenTV, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,429,290) developed by five co-inventors for a "broadband transmission system and method." The co-inventors are Brian Sedlak, Highlands Ranch, Colo., Thomas Lemmons, Evergreen, Colo., Gary Rasmussen, Parker, Colo., Ian Zenoni, Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Thomas Huber, Parker, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission bandwidth of a broadband transmission system such as a cable television, satellite system, or wireless information service. Requests for content items from users are employed to add or delete content items from a list. Content items in the list are ranked relative to the number of requests received or by rate of request. Package groups are created with most requested content items being broadcast more frequently than less requested content items. Transmit groups are produced from package groups and placed in a broadcast queue. A transmit process transmits groups retrieved from the queue." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2011 (12/984,413). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,429,290&OS=8,429,290&RS=8,429,290 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. AS0430AK0430-872213 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]