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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ TiVo Patent Juggernaut Ties Up Vodafone, Sharp ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ TiVo and its new parent company, Xperi Holdings, have renewed two more patents, inking intellectual property licensing extensions with U.K. telecom Vodafone and Korean consumer-electronics giant Sharp. ]]>
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Vodafone and Sharp have extended their IP licenses with TiVo.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[TiVo Stream 4K]]></media:text>
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                                <p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/tag/tivo">TiVo </a>and its new parent company,<a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/xperi-officially-takes-over-tivos-patent-fight-vs-comcast-touts-itc-win"> Xperi Holdings</a>, have renewed two more patents, inking intellectual property licensing extensions with U.K. telecom Vodafone and Korean consumer-electronics giant Sharp. </p><p>Since TiVo settled its <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/comcast-and-tivo-reach-agreement-end-4-year-patent-fight">four-year IP battle with Comcast</a> in November, the company has also struck deals with Cox Communications, TCL and Sony. </p><p><a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/tivo-touts-customer-wins-with-liberty-and-vodofone">Vodafone</a>, which operates video services across Europe and parts of Africa, providing more than 22 million customers with TV/video, will continue to have access to TiVo products including content discovery, conversational voice and insight data analytics.  </p><p>“With this extension of TiVo’s services, Vodafone is maintaining its service offerings and keeping audiences engaged in the hugely competitive entertainment landscape,” Matt Milne, chief revenue officer for Xperi, said in a statement. </p><p>Under its multiyear exemption, <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/tivo-patent-juggernaut-ties-up-2-more-vodafone-and-sharp">Sharp will use TiVo’s “G-Guide”</a> products, including G-Guide HTML, G-Guide xD and remote schedule recording service, across compatible television and Ultra HD Blu-ray recorder products in the Japanese market. This includes the latest Aquos-branded 8K TVs.</p><p>Xperi, which controls more than 10,000 patents and patent applications, said during its third-quarter earnings call that it expects its IP licensing business to generate around $350 million in revenue in 2021. </p><p>Xperi reports fourth-quarter earnings on Feb. 23.</p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ TiVo Patent Juggernaut Ties Up 2 More - Vodafone and Sharp ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Parent company Xperi expects to make $350 million in IP licensing coin in 2021 ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:21:28 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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                                <p>TiVo and its new parent company, Xperi Holdings, announced two more patent renewals Tuesday, inking IP licensing extensions with UK telecom Vodafone and Korean consumer electronics giant Sharp Corp. </p><p>Since TiVo <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/comcast-and-tivo-reach-agreement-end-4-year-patent-fight">settled its four-year IP battle</a> with Comcast in November, the company has also announced IP deals with <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/tivo-renews-patent-deal-with-xfinity-x1-licensee-cox-communications">Cox Communications</a>, <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/tivo-brings-tcl-under-patent-heel">TCL</a> and <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/tivo-adds-sony-to-recent-patent-wins">Sony</a>. </p><p>Vodafone, which operates video services across Europe and parts of Africa, providing more than 22 million customers with TV/video, will continue to have access to TiVo products relating to content discovery, conversational voice and insight data analytics.  </p><p>“With this extension of TiVo&apos;s services, Vodafone is maintaining its service offerings and keeping audiences engaged in the hugely competitive entertainment landscape,” “said Matt Milne, chief revenue officer for Xperi, in a statement. </p><p>Meanwhile, under its multi-year exemption, Sharp will utilizes TiVo’s “G-Guide” products, including G-Guide HTML, G-Guide xD and remote schedule recording service across compatible television and Ultra HD Blu-ray recorder products in the Japanese market. This includes the latest Aquos-branded 8K TVs.</p><p>Xperi, which controls more than 10,000 patents and patent applications, said during its third quarter earnings call that it expects its IP licensing business to generate around $350 million in revenue in 2021. </p><p>“We are proud to extend our licensing agreements with Sony,” said Samir Armaly, president of intellectual property at Xperi, in a statement. “Sony is a creative entertainment company with a solid foundation of technology, and we are excited to build on our long-standing relationship with them.”</p><p>Xperi reports Q4 earnings on Feb. 23. </p>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Sharp Picks Smart TV Partners ]]></title>
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                                                                                                                            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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                                <p>Sharp Electronics has tapped Digitalsmiths and Tribune Media Services to power video discovery elements that are baked into SmartCentral 3.0, the software/apps platform for Sharp’s 2014 lineup of Aquos LED smart TVs.</p><p>Under the deal, Sharp is tying in Digitalsmith’s Seamless Discovery Platform pre-integrated with TMS’s On Entertainment data, enabling the TV maker to provide a cross-platform guide that integrates program and content information from pay-TV providers as well as Internet-delivered streaming services.  Users of SmartCentral 3.0 can receive content recommendations along with program descriptions and images for that content without having to switch TV inputs or apps, the companies said.</p><p>"Sharp continually strives to improve the viewer experience, and the SmartCentral 3.0 platform offers integrated search, the best apps and mobile connectivity,” said Vishnu Rao, director, product technology at Sharp.  “Working with Digitalsmiths and TMS allows Sharp to bring the best content discovery experience to Sharp AQUOS viewers,” said Vishnu Rao, director, product technology at Sharp.</p><p>Sharp said the 3.0 version of SmartCentral is available on more than a dozen 2014 models.  </p><p>TiVo <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/tivo-buy-digitalsmiths-135-million-356352" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/tivo-buy-digitalsmiths-135-million-356352">acquired Digitalsmiths earlier this year</a> in a deal valued at $135 million. TMS’s clients include Microsoft, Yahoo, TiVo, Time  Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS TV, DirecTV and Cablevision Mexico, among others.</p>
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