Apparatus and Method for Blocking Television Commercials and Providing an Archive Interrogation Program
Abstract
An apparatus and method is disclosed for blocking specific television commercials from the viewer's television based upon the characteristics of the television commercial and a program to place the blocked television commercials into an archive. An archive interrogation program then acquires the users search criteria and sends the search criteria to the content search program for a list of matches. The matches are displayed to the user and the user can select a segment for viewing.
Claims
What is claimed is:
A method for searching archived blocked television commercials comprising: receiving a first television signal; recognizing said ...
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