And in the What Will Happen Next Cliffhanger Patent Grant department, we bring you this from consumer electronics TV and set top box giant Philips. It owns a patent on a method of skipping commercials from programs among other claims. Really? You’ve got to wonder how Philips thinks it will use this one. Ever skipped commercials on TiVo or another DVR? Hmm. We have a call out to Philips on this issued patent 7,337,455, which dates back to the 1980s. It’s titled, “Method, apparatus, and program for evolving algorithms for detecting content in information streams.”
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