Search engine for video and graphics
CA 2796218 C · Owner: Gemstar Development Corporation · Inventors: Yuen, Henry C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A method of searching for graphic or video files having corresponding locators used to locate such graphic or video files using a computer includes creating an identifier of searchable file information from identifier information related to a graphic or video file. The method further includes storing the identifier and the locator for the graphic or video file in a database receiving search criteria, searching the identifiers in the database and sending or displaying the results of the search.
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- Filed November 30, 1999 and granted November 29, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 30, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 30, 2021.
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