Santa Clara - 7/9/2009 - Macrovision Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) and Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a leading supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, have entered into a patent license agreement for Interactive Program Guides (IPGs) for consumer electronic products.
The multi-year agreement includes a patent license enabling ADB to incorporate IPGs in retail set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices distributed throughout Europe and other international markets.
"We are pleased to welcome ADB into our patent licensing program," said Samir Armaly, senior vice president, licensing, Macrovision. "ADB joins other leading brands that have elected to take a license under our IPG patent portfolio."
About ADB
Advanced Digital Broadcast (http://www.adbglobal.com/) is a leader in the design, development and supply of high-quality products to the world-wide digital television market. The Company has deployed over 12 million set-top boxes, across high-volume markets, incorporating the industry's pioneering middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies.
Approximately 70% of ADB's workforce is dedicated to engineering; developing products across all the digital television technology platforms including cable, Internet Protocol (IP), satellite and terrestrial. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with its main Research and Development facility in Zielona Gora, Poland and Operations division in Taipei, Taiwan. ADB has local representation in Australia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom.
ADB is a member of ADB Group; ADB Group (http://www.adbholdings.com/) is publicly listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX:ADBN).
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on powering the discovery and enjoyment of digital entertainment by providing a broad set of integrated solutions that are embedded in our customers' products and services and used by end consumers to simplify and guide their interaction with digital entertainment. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Macrovision provides interactive programming guides, connected middleware, media recognition, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com. Macrovision holds over 4,000 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com
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