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Myriad is the owner of the patents developed by its founder and
president Rick Guy relating to interactive television, e-learning,
and broadband online services. Since the late 1990s some of the
world's leading interactive television companies like Microsoft,
BSkyB, Fantastic Corporation, Open TV, and others have been spending
billions of dollars on the basic building block technologies of
a new "converged" interactive television and broadband online industry.
According to Guy, the fundamental intellectual property behind
the variety of television and broadcast platforms for delivering
multimedia content belongs to Myriad. Myriad's claims include techniques
for using high bandwidth signals like television signals to send
all kinds of multimedia information in an interactive fashion. High
speed online services and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) platforms
like Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) are based in large part upon
the company's intellectual property, according to Guy.
He said, "All the exciting interactive possibilities presented
by DVB and the convergence of television and the Internet depend
upon our core methods of communication and related intellectual
property," This is only the first of our European Patents and one
of many that will be issued worldwide as we continue to build our
IP portfolio while also creating the best possible applications
in the fields of education, edutainment, and communication." He
went on to say that the company's pending patents cover interactive
TV devices, software, and all related basic technologies.
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