US Patent Issued to TVNGO LTD. (BVI) on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for facilitating toggling between internet and TV broadcasts" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. RE50,399, issued on April 22, was assigned to TVNGO LTD. (BVI) (Amsterdam).

"Method and apparatus for facilitating toggling between internet and TV broadcasts" was invented by Yakkov Merlin (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TV-Internet Integration Box allows display of first data broadcast over a TV subscriber channel simultaneously together with second data broadcast over a digital data communications network has respective first and second inputs for receiving at a user premises the first data and the second data according to a user-profile associated with the second data. A combiner unit combines the first data and second ...