Forgot your password?   Comment: Re:Filed: October 9, 2008
(Score 1) 202  by justzisguy (#28883199) Attached to: Company
Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting"  Stretching is the name of
the game. I like the idea of TiVo, but to qualify as prior art,
we need a publication. Simply find a product user manual (non-
patent literature). Also, TiVo has many patents that also may
disclose the ideas we're looking for.  The TiVo certainly
downloads data when it records, where download is the
transferring of data (audio and video) from one computer to
another. I'd have to look at an early TiVO manual to see how
well it meets the channel depth limitation. Further, the pre-
defined channel is a tad tricky, but the TiVO box somehow knows
what a season of content looks like. Is it pre-defined? Maybe.
Maybe even the consistent name of the show from the guide
information gives us pre-defined.  So independent claim 1 could
probably be knocked out, but dependent claim 3 and its children
would be novel limitations over our imagined