Distribution of real-time entertainment scheduling data
CA 2442634 C · Owner: White, Melissa E. · Inventors: Ward, Brian J.; Shannon, Bryan A.; Cushing, Michael P.
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A method, system, and software for distributing entertainment scheduling data (e.g. television scheduling data movie scheduling data, etc.) to end users. Entertainment scheduling data updates are entered into an editorial database and then used to rapidly update a real-time database. A subset of entertainment scheduling data from the real-time database may be transmitted from the real-time database to an end-user database of an end user. The subset may be transmitted across a communication interface (e.g. the Internet) from the real-time database to the end-user database. An intermediate destination (e.g. a File Transfer Protocol server) between the real-time database and the communication …
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- Filed September 25, 2003 and granted January 31, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 25, 2023.
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