New MS patents on Basis for Digital TV Standards

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Subject: [Patents] new MS patents on basis for digital tv standards
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2004 08:51:03 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

At

  New Patents Could Propel Microsoft's Digital Media
  http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3305461

you find a detailed article starting with

   Microsoft has just been awarded two United States patents for a
   proprietary method of packing a high-definition television signal
   onto a hard drive, internetnews.com has learned.

   The development could help propel Microsoft's digital media strategy,
   whereby the company has, since late 2002, worked to position its
   Windows Media 9 technology as an industry standard for the delivery of
   high-definition (1280 x 720) video streams directly to the PC.

The patents are found at


> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,510,177.WKU.&OS=PN/6,510,177&RS=PN/6,510,177

> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,683,980.WKU.&OS=PN/6,683,980&RS=PN/6,683,980

The article goes on to quote anonymous experts who praise the methods
patented here as groundbreaking and speculate that the MS standards will
become irresistible.

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