US Patent Issued to NL Giken on Oct. 27 for "Digital contents receiving apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,216, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NL Giken Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Digital contents receiving apparatus" was invented by Masahide Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A television set is capable of receiving both broadcast program from television station and corresponding digital file of the same contents from a server station through internet. The television set keeps information of time limit for the server station to surely provide the file. The television set automatically downloads the file when the time limit comes close or the time limit information is failed to be kept. The television set keeps URL for the ...