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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181200 | Method and system for displaying advertising, video, and program schedule listing A television schedule system and method for displaying television schedule information on a television screen includes a program guide having a schedule information area that depicts the programs that are being presented on each channel at each time during the day. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181201 | Enhanced electronic program guides A method and system for rating programs, the method including, receiving a sample of viewing logs from a plurality of set top boxes (STBs), determining, from the sample of viewing logs, at least groups of viewers sharing similar interests, and groups of programs sha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171515 | Automatically generated TV favorites list A favorite channel list for a media system is generated by observing the viewing, surfing, and recording habits of a user. The viewing habits may include the duration and frequency of viewing a channel. A user's surfing habits, including navigation habits of a guide... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171514 | Managing favorite channels A system is described that provides for scrolling among favorite channels with a remote control device, preferably through user interaction with channel keys. Some embodiments also provide for enhanced management of favorite channels. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8151303 | Television device and method of identifying consecutive programmes A television device for receiving and storing an electronic programme guide, the electronic programme guide including a plurality of programme entries for respective television programmes, each programme entry having a title field including title data for the title ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151302 | Broadcasting system and receiving apparatus The broadcast station 1 provides the digital contents to be put on the air with the attributive information of the digital contents thereof. The selective information showing the user's taste is set out in the filter unit 12. The filter unit 12 ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146120 | Multi-criteria rating and searching system A method and apparatus to provide a multi-criteria rating and search system is described. Users can provide ratings along multiple axes, which can then be used for searching. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132208 | Presenting a television services program guide information as a video mosaic Methods and computer-readable media are provided for presenting program guide information using a mosaic of video sources broadcast in a television services system. An application program executed on a television services set-top box generates a matrix of still imag... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127331 | Method, system and apparatus for conveying personalized content to a viewer According to embodiments of the present invention a method, system and apparatus for conveying personalized content to a viewer is provided. A method for conveying personalized content comprises obtaining an indication of viewer-selected content and receiving an ind... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122469 | Assisted user control in recommenders A method and arrangement for modifying settings of a television program recommender displays the rating (recommended or not recommended) for a selected television program, and also displays icons for selection by the user to indicate whether the user agrees or disag... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122470 | Method for providing an electronic program guide based on user preference data An apparatus such as a television signal receiver provides an electronic program guide based on user preference data collected at different time intervals in a day. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a memory operative to store first and se... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103680 | Systems and methods for historical information management A networked computer system is provided for collecting and displaying historical content comprising a plurality of digital objects associated with a historical period or event. The computer system is comprised of one or more networked servers for processing the hist... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103707 | Method and system for presenting non-linear content based on linear content metadata A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at le... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8091105 | Method and apparatus for reproducing contents based on electronic program guide Provided are a method of and an apparatus for reproducing contents based on an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), the method including receiving a plurality of EPGs which are provided by a plurality of content providers, receiving a first EPG generated by a third party... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087050 | Client-server electronic program guide A client-server interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide client is implemented on user television equipment. The interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to define expressions tha... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082272 | Method, system, and computer program product for managing information in a computer network A server receives and stores a contributor's content for redistribution of the content via a distributor's web site. From the distributor, the server receives and stores a specification relating to the content and the manner in which a portion of the content is to b... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079046 | Intelligent system and methods of recommending media content items based on user preferences A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating syst... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074242 | System and method for information supply and apparatuses therefor An information supply apparatus for providing broadcasting contents summary information for the input of specified conditions of a program desired to view by an information utilization apparatus, the storage of the summary playback information representing the summa... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069461 | On-screen program guide with interactive programming recommendations A subscriber to a video service generally has available to them an on-screen program guide. The program guide lists programming (e.g., TV shows) that are available to the subscriber for a certain upcoming time period. The programming guide may sort the listings by c... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060906 | Method and apparatus for interactively retrieving content related to previous query results The invention relates to a method and system for automatically identifying and presenting video clips or other media to a user at a client device. One embodiment of the invention provides a method for updating a user profile or other persistent data store based on u... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060504 | Method and system for selecting content items to be presented to a viewer A rules evaluation engine operable to select optimal content for presentation to the viewer at each presentation opportunity. The engine evaluates segmentation rules associated with each particular content item in parallel, and then selects the best content to be pr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056100 | System and method for providing access to data using customer profiles A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient d... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8056101 | Customized interface based on viewed programming In one embodiment, a system generates a customized interface based on viewed programming. The system stores a program that a user viewed through a media device; searches through a network for information related to the viewed program; and extracts data associated wi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051079 | Wish lists based on images, references, or third party beneficiaries The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can create a wish list based upon a variety of inputs and criteria. In one aspect the architecture can generate a wish list based upon one or more images of an item desired by a user. Accordingly, the archit... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046798 | Profiling and identification of television viewers Profiling a television viewer by monitoring and processing, locally at a television viewing environment, the viewer's interactivity (e.g., via a remote control unit) with the television viewing environment. Generating one or more profiles for each viewer based on on... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046797 | System, method, and software application for targeted advertising via behavioral model clustering, and preference programming based on behavioral model clusters The method and system for TV user profile data prediction and modeling allows accurate and narrowly focused behavioral clustering. A client-side system classifies television consumers into representative user profiles. The profiles target individual user advertising... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8028314 | Audiovisual information management system A system, may include, at least one of audio, image, and a video comprising a plurality of frames. A preferences description, describing preferences of a user with respect to the use of at least one of the audio, image, and video, where the description normally incl... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024755 | Interactive program guide with preferred items list apparatus and method While reviewing potential programs when using an interactive programming guide, a viewer can select to place information regarding specific programs in a list (in one embodiment, such entries are made on an automated basis). The viewer can then recall that list to m... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020183 | Audiovisual management system A system for structuring usage history for audiovisual materials. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015184 | Method and apparatus for a search-enabled remote control device A search-enabled remote control device to facilitate viewers' ability to search through programming and/or content options and view results. In one embodiment, a viewer is able to use a traditional remote control interface to navigate through menus or selections and... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006266 | Method for using only feedback from shows that improve the performance of the recommender system In customizing a user profile employed by a recommendation system, users are prompted for feedback regarding content that is the subject of the recommendation system. Only feedback that does not degrade performance of the recommendation system, as measured by the er... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001568 | Methods and systems for displaying recommended content alternatives In a content distribution system, in which broadcast content is distributed and provided to a television viewer, a method and apparatus for providing a compact guide display of a plurality of television show or program recommendations, optionally with descriptions, ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991268 | Wireless communication terminals, systems, methods, and computer program products for media file playback A wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a conn... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984468 | Systems and methods for providing program suggestions in an interactive television program guide An interactive television program guide application is provided that queries a user regarding the user's interest in television programs and suggests television programs to the user based on the user's responses. The interactive television program guide application ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979880 | Method and system for profiling iTV users and for providing selective content delivery A method for profiling an iTV user. The method comprises gathering user-requested content information from iTV interactions, correlating content-associated profile information from a rating service with the user-requested content information, and developing a profil... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971217 | Content digest system, video digest system, user terminal, video digest generation method, video digest reception method and program therefor Meta data about content is converted into characteristic values. Each characteristic value is associated with one or more content segments of content. The content can be audio, video, or other data or combinations of data. Importance levels for content segments are ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970762 | Methods to create a user profile and to specify a suggestion for a next selection of a user A user profile and/or the suggestions computed based thereon are obtained taking a special set of user features into account. The user features are defined to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user in respect to the application where the user pr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966632 | Visual presentation of video recommendations A system, method and various user interfaces enable visually browsing multiple groups of video recommendations. A group of video recommendations includes a central video and a set of related videos displayed at its corresponding display distance from the central vid... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7949689 | Media indexing beacon and capture device A system and method for indexing media files includes capturing a subject in a media file with a media capture device. The media capture device also receives index information from a media indexing beacon, wherein the index information is related to the subject in t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945928 | Methods, systems, and products for classifying subscribers Methods, systems, and products classify subscribers based on viewing habits. An event record is stored that associates a command entered by a subscriber to a time. The event record is merged with data describing media programming to form event timeline data describi... | 05/17/2011 |
