Appeal No. 1998-1345
Application 08/362,318
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 3 and 4.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a system for eliminating
undesirable language from video on demand or multimedia
programming. As claimed in claim 3, which is directed to the
embodiment of figure 15, an interactive programming object
monitors the incoming text source (e.g., closed captioning)
and blocks audio information from being played back when the
words specified by the user appear. As claimed in claim 4,
which is directed to the embodiment of figure 16, in the case
where no parallel text source channel is available, voice
recognition is used to identify words which are found
offensive and to block the audio from being output when those
words are detected.
Claim 3 is reproduced below.
3. In a network arrangement for the delivery and
presentation of multimedia applications represented in an
interactive decision list,
the network arrangement including a network, one or
more file servers connected to the network, at least one
of said file servers containing multimedia assets and at
least one of said file servers containing one or more
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