FIELD: television.
SUBSTANCE: television add-on is provided with inner software, allowing to observe interesting events, and allowing other peripheral devices to connect thereto. In particular, add-on has three components, necessary for dispensing its basic functions: hardware, operating system and resident application. Each component provides separate set of application interfaces, which allow the application to query and direct hardware for performing certain functions, determine events observed by operating system, observe events taking place in resident program.
EFFECT: broader functional capabilities.
10 cl, 12 dwg
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Dates
2005-07-20—Published
2000-03-28—Filed