Posted Dec 18, 2007 at 12:12PM by Isaac C. Listed in: News Tags: Sony, patent
Ó

Sony - Image 1 


Sony is coming out with Mezone - what at first seems to be a brand new television and home entertainment system that features a broad list of entertainment media. It's all so exciting, except... no one knows what it is yet. What could Sony be up to?

The most anyone knows right now is that Sony has patented the trademark on December 5 and that a website for the new service is live but won't let anyone with the proper IP address take a peek inside.

There's no telling yet whether this has anything (or nothing) to do with the PlayStation 3 or the PSP, but the patent filing suggests possible interactivity with other devices, and a lot of its other functions is similar to the PS3's so who knows? The only thing we can do right now is speculate until Sony opens the gates.

For the curious, here are some sections taken from the patent filing of Mezone, outlining some of its functions. It's a little long but the general idea is that it's a hardware and service entertainment system:

[...] computer hardware, set top boxes, remote controls, and computer software and peripherals, namely audio and video receivers and transmitters and computer software programs enabling receipt, download, playing, personalized and interactive viewing, and rental of audio and video programming through the use of internet connections to computer hardware, receiver and transmitter apparatuses that connect to a television set or monitor


[...] computer software for uploading, manipulating, and enhancing digital content, documents, photographs, images, video, and audio


[...] computer software for linking metadata tags with photographic and other media files to enable search engine retrieval and database software collections of files and their on-line sharing, and for linking metadata tags with web pages visited, to create links which users can maintain for themselves and share with on-line groups


[...] electronic storage of media objects and other digital content including text, documents, photographs, images, video, and audio


[...] audio and video broadcasting and streaming services over the Internet or other communications network, namely, uploading, playing, streaming, posting, tagging, showing, displaying, blogging, vlogging, sharing, providing, distributing, and transmitting of video, pictures, images, text, audio and/or other electronic media or information


[...] providing access to Internet protocol television (IPTV); digital broadcasting of radio, television programs and movies via a global computer network; interactive television broadcasting services


[...] entertainment services, namely, providing a website featuring television programs, movies, and music videos audio clips, video clips, musical performances, musical videos, film clips, photographs, other multimedia materials, and information in the field of audio clips, video clips, musical performances, musical videos, film clips, photographs, and other multimedia materials via a global computer network


[...] motion picture film production; entertainment in the nature of theatre productions; entertainment in the nature of visual and audio performances, namely, musical band, dance and ballet performances




[Via Mezone] Permalink  |   Email this  |   Linking Blogs   |   Digg It!

Bookmark / Find this article on:


1 Comments


Sort by:
   by Advertising -
   by Mork - 2007-12-29
 » source and clarification

thanks for the link to the source of this story, which is here:
http://www.trademork.com/mezone/

also, i wanted to clarify something, in order for your post to be as accurate as possible:

you mention the "patent filing" and say that Sony "patented the trademark". in fact, the subject of this story is Sony's trademark filing, not a patent filing. and just to clarify, you can't patent a trademark. they are two separate things. their definitions and differences are outlined here:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html#ptsc

best,
Mork



Featured Content
QJ.NET Blog Network RSS Feeds
MyQJ Feed / PDA
MyQJ RSS / PDA
Blog of Blogs Feed / PDA
QJ.NET RSS / PDA
Gaming Consoles Feed / PDA
Nintendo DS RSS / PDA
PlayStation 3 RSS / PDA
PSP Updates RSS / PDA
Wii RSS / PDA
Xbox 360 RSS / PDA
PC Gaming Feed / PDA
Age of Conan RSS / PDA
Games for Windows RSS / PDA
MMORPG RSS / PDA
Tabula Rasa RSS / PDA
World of Warcraft RSS / PDA
Science Feed / PDA
Science RSS / PDA
Technology Feed / PDA
Apple RSS / PDA
Gadgets RSS / PDA
Mobile RSS / PDA
Photography RSS / PDA
Tech RSS / PDA
Add QJ.NET
Add to My Yahoo!
Google Reader Subscribe with Bloglines
Add  to your Kinja digest Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Subscribe with Pluck RSS reader Add 'www.qj.net' to Newsburst from CNET News.com
Subscribe with SearchFox RSS del.icio.us www.qj.net
Add to Technorati Favorite! Add to My AOL
furl! it Stumble for Treehugger!

 Username: 
 Password:
Forgot password
New user registration



Poll
Which is the greatest handheld of all time?
Categories

Emulators
Titles
Archives