Our IPG Patent Licensing business includes worldwide patent licenses to third party guide developers such as cable and satellite providers, CE manufacturers, set-top box manufacturers, interactive television software providers and program guide providers in the online, personal computer, and mobile phone businesses.

We believe that interactive television guidance technology is quickly becoming a must-have tool for television viewers bombarded with an ever-expanding amount of available content, an increasing number of digital cable and satellite television channels, and VOD services.

For MSO, DBS and IPTV Systems

TV Guide Interactive licenses technologies and services related to television IPGs to MSO, DBS, and IPTV providers primarily in the United States. Our licensees enter into either service agreements to deploy TV Guide IPGs or a patent license which provides the option to deploy our TV Guide IPGs, their own IPG or a third party IPG. For those operators that distribute a TV Guide IPG, we also offer them operational support, content and data. Our TV Guide IPGs allow service providers to customize certain elements of IPGs for their subscribers.

We have license and distribution agreements with the majority of the domestic MSO and DBS providers, including Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”), Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and EchoStar Communications Corporation. We also have license and distribution agreements with certain international MSOs and DBS providers including British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, Presentcast, Inc. and Shaw Communications.

For more information about IPG Licensing for MSO and DBS providers, please click here.

For Consumer Electronics Products

We also license IPG products and technologies to third party guide developers such as CE manufacturers, set-top box manufacturers, interactive television software providers and program listings providers in the online, personal computer and other non-television businesses. Our licensees include Hitachi, JVC, LG, Motorola, Scientific Atlanta, Sony, Thomson, TiVo, Toshiba, and others.

Company-developed CE IPGs are incorporated in CE products, including mid to high-end plasma, DLP and LCD televisions and DVD recorder based products. The IPGs offer interactive on-screen program listings that enable viewers to quickly and easily navigate, sort, select, and schedule television programming for viewing and recording, all with simple remote control commands. Our IPG patented technology delivers continuously updated multi-day program listings to users, regardless of whether they receive their television signal via cable or over-the-air broadcast. The IPG requires no subscription or special data input connection.

For more information about CE Licensing in North America please click here; For more information about international CE Licensing, please click here.

For Online & Mobile Guides

Gemstar-TV Guide offers IPG patent licensing to online and mobile providers.

For more information about IPG Licensing for online and mobile guides, please click here.