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Displaying complementary content sources
William Houghton,George D. Escobar,Carlos A. Silva,Robert M. Cooper,Laurence F. Kirsh +4 more
- 25 Jun 2004
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TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a first URL address corresponding to a web page, accessing content and serving the first web page based on the first URL addresses, receiving specification of a second URL address corresponding to a second web page and changing from the first Web page to the second Web page, motivating an automatic change in television channel from a first television channel to another television channel based upon a change from the web page to web page.
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Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first URL address corresponding to a first web page, accessing content and serving the first web page based on the first URL address, receiving specification of a second URL address corresponding to a second web page, changing from the first web page to the second web page based on the received specification of the second URL address, motivating an automatic change in television channel from a first television channel to a second television channel based upon a change from the first web page to the second web page, and displaying the second television channel.
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- 25 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for controlling the provision of advertising presented to an end user in a feed of news content that is delivered from a publisher to the end user is described, wherein the system comprises: one or more advertisements which each possess a unique identifier that has been attributed by the publisher; reader software deployed in the system to analyse the delivered feed of the news content and the advertisements, wherein reader software is adapted to ensure that any duplication of the advertisements is identified by reference to the unique identifier of each advertisement.
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Hiroyuki Kikkoji,Nozomu Okuzawa,Shinsuke Yamashita,Jun Moriya,Yasuhiro Murase +4 more
- 18 May 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, a sending means (1a) of a communication device (1) sends request information (3) to a server (2) and a sending mean (2c) obtains related information (4a) and an identification code (4b) in accordance with the request information and sends them to the communication device(1).
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Robert Y. Greenberg
- 26 Jul 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and claim the television channel change picture-in-picture circuit and method, which includes means for displaying a first channel on a primary portion of a screen, means for changing from the first channel to a second channel, and means for showing the second channels on a secondary portion of the screen responsive to the means for switching from first to second channels while continuing to display the first channels on the primary portion.
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