Automatically activated commercial message timer

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H04B 1/16 (2006.01) H04B 1/20 (2006.01) H04N 5/782 (2006.01) H04H 9/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2003750

A commercial message timer stores data indicative of a first tuned station in response to a channel change command and begins repeatedly timing a predetermined time period. Upon each expiration of the time period, the user is reminded that the commercial message on the first tuned station may be over. In this way a user can avoid a commercial message on a first channel by setting the timer and scanning through other channels, and yet be reminded to return (e.g. by use of a PC (previous-channel) key) to the first channel at the end of a time period substantially equal to that of a typical commercial message. In another embodiment employing a videocassette recorder (VCR) the commercial timer is activated upon pressing the PAUSE key of the VCR so that the user may avoid recording the commercial message on videotape.

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