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EP0954179 - Response capacity management in interactive broadcast systems [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  08.07.2005
Database last updated on 20.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip08.07.2005No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 24.08.2005  [2005/34]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Wink Communications, Inc.
1001 Marina Village Parkway
Alameda, CA 94501 / US
[1999/44]
Inventor(s)01 / Travaille, Timothy
5810 134th PL SE
Bellevue, WA 98006 / US
02 / Brubeck, David W.
1370 Third Street 311
Alameda, CA 94501 / US
[1999/44]
Representative(s)Liesegang, Roland
Boehmert & Boehmert
Anwaltspartnerschaft mbB
Pettenkoferstrasse 22
80336 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1999/44]Liesegang, Roland, Dr.-Ing.
FORRESTER & BOEHMERT Franz-Joseph-Strasse 38
80801 München / DE
Application number, filing date99108465.830.04.1999
[1999/44]
Priority number, dateUS1998007075730.04.1998         Original published format: US 70757
[1999/44]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0954179
Date:03.11.1999
Language:EN
[1999/44]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0954179
Date:03.01.2001
[2001/01]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0954179
Date:01.09.2004
Language:EN
[2004/36]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP20.11.2000
ClassificationIPC:H04N7/173
[1999/44]
CPC:
H04H20/38 (EP,US); H04H60/41 (EP,US); H04H60/64 (EP,US);
H04H60/66 (EP,US); H04N21/235 (EP,US); H04N21/435 (EP,US);
H04N21/6543 (EP,US); H04N21/8543 (EP,US); H04N7/163 (EP,US);
H04N7/165 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   NL [2001/38]
Former [1999/44]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Beantwortungskapazitätssteuerung für interaktive Rundfunksysteme[1999/44]
English:Response capacity management in interactive broadcast systems[1999/44]
French:Gestion de capacité de réponse dans un système de télédiffusion interactif[1999/44]
Examination procedure27.06.2001Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
27.06.2001Examination requested  [2001/34]
30.07.2002Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
07.02.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
12.03.2003Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
04.07.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
17.02.2004Communication of intention to grant the patent
16.06.2004Fee for grant paid
16.06.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)02.06.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2005/34]
Fees paidRenewal fee
02.04.2001Renewal fee patent year 03
22.04.2002Renewal fee patent year 04
22.04.2003Renewal fee patent year 05
26.04.2004Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[YA]US4684980  (RAST ROBERT M [US], et al) [Y] 1,5,8 * abstract * [A] 2-4,6,7;
 [YA]US5251324  (MCMULLAN JR JAY C [US]) [Y] 1,5,8 * column 3, line 60 - column 6, line 42 * [A] 2-4,6,7;
 [A]EP0822718  (DISCOVERY COMMUNICAT INC [US]) [A] 1-8 * the whole document *;
 [A]EP0776132  (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD [JP]) [A] 1-8 * the whole document *;
 [A]US5355480  (SMITH ELIZABETH A [US], et al) [A] 1-8 * abstract *
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