US 9369758

Patent Overview: US9369758B2 — "Multifunction multimedia device"

Bibliographic data (from supplied text)

• Patent number: US9369758B2
• Title: Multifunction multimedia device
• Inventors: Amir Gharaat; James Barton; Mukesh K. Patel
• Original assignee: Tivo Inc. Current assignee listed: Adeia Media Solutions Inc.
• Application number: US14/259,145; filed 2014-04-22
• Priority date (stated as an assumption): 2009-09-14
• Publication date: 2016-06-14; application granted 2016-06-14
• Related publication: US20140229969A1
• Status: Active, with adjusted expiration listed as 2030-02-02
• Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US9369758](/patent/US9369758)/en

Purpose and plain-language scope
The classification record shows the subject matter concerns client devices adapted for receiving or interacting with content, such as set-top boxes, and the processing of content or additional data, including demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream (H04N21/40, H04N21/43, H04N21/435). Further classifications point to multimedia information retrieval and indexing (G06F16/40, G06F16/41), digital output to display devices including copying display data to a remote display/teledisplay (G06F3/14, G06F3/1454), and commerce-related categories such as advertisements, targeted advertising based on user history or profile, recommending goods or services, billing/invoicing, and social networking (G06Q30/02x, G06Q30/04, G06Q30/0631, G06Q10/40, G06Q50/01). Prior-art keywords listed include "media content," "media," "user," "content," and "message." Taken together, these indicate a multimedia device that handles media content and associated data, interacts with a user, supports messaging-type functions, and presents output on a display, with advertising/commerce and social-networking functionality also classified.

What the excerpt does not establish
The supplied text contains no abstract, no claim language, and no written description. It therefore does not establish the actual claimed invention, its limitations, or the specific technical implementation. It does not verify the priority-date assumption, does not establish inventorship or ownership as legal conclusions, and provides no factual basis regarding validity, enforceability, infringement, or prior art. Litigation and ownership-transfer entries appear in the source but are outside the scope requested and are not analyzed here.