TiVo Patents Closed Captions & Meta Data Analysis

By Michael Silbergleid

www.zatznotfunny.com reports on TiVo’s latest patent–7,661,121–which gives TiVo the exclusive right to use existing closed caption and Enhanced Television (ETV) signaling data to create an interactive experience for their customers. The official title is “In-band data recognition and synchronization system.”

You can read the story here (or click here for the patent): http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2010-02/tivo-patents-closed-captions-meta-data-analysis/