<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE ep-patent-document PUBLIC "-//EPO//EP PATENT DOCUMENT 1.4//EN" "ep-patent-document-v1-4.dtd"><ep-patent-document id="EP0873652A1" file="EP97907651NWA1.xml" lang="en" doc-number="0873652" date-publ="19981028" kind="A1" country="EP" status="n" dtd-version="ep-patent-document-v1-4"><SDOBI lang="en"><B000><eptags><B001EP>......DE....FRGB..........SE........................................................................</B001EP><B003EP>*</B003EP><B007EP>EPregister to ST.36 EBD process v 1.0 kbaumeister@epo.org (15 Jan 2013)</B007EP></eptags></B000><B100><B110>0873652</B110><B130>A1</B130><B140><date>19981028</date></B140><B190>EP</B190></B100><B200><B210>97907651.0</B210><B220><date>19970218</date></B220><B240><B241><date>19980127</date></B241></B240><B250>en</B250><B251EP>en</B251EP><B260>en</B260></B200><B300><B310>19960602477</B310><B320><date>19960219</date></B320><B330><ctry>US</ctry></B330></B300><B400><B405><date>19981028</date><bnum>199844</bnum></B405><B430><date>19981028</date><bnum>199844</bnum></B430></B400><B500><B510EP><classification-ipcr sequence="1"><text>H04N   5/   445            A I                    </text></classification-ipcr><classification-ipcr sequence="2"><text>H04N   7/    16            A I                    </text></classification-ipcr></B510EP><B540><B541>en</B541><B542>METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SORTING CHANNEL GUIDES BASED ON CALL SIGN</B542><B541>fr</B541><B542>PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF PERMETTANT LE TRI DE GUIDES DE CHAINES A L'AIDE D'UN SIGNAL D'APPEL</B542><B541>de</B541><B542>AUF RUFZEICHEN GESTÜTZTES KANALFÜHRER-SORTIERUNGSVERFAHREN UND -GERÄT</B542></B540></B500><B700><B710><B711><snm>Hughes Electronics Corporation</snm><adr><str>200N. Sepulveda Boulevard</str><city>El Segundo, California 90245-0956</city><ctry>US</ctry></adr></B711></B710><B720><B721><snm>BRUETTE, Jeff</snm><adr><str>13500 Ansel Terrace</str><city>Germantown, MD 20874</city><ctry>US</ctry></adr></B721><B721><snm>MOHEBBI, Matthew</snm><adr><str>11816 Riding Loop Terrace</str><city>North Potomac, Maryland 20878</city><ctry>US</ctry></adr></B721></B720><B740><B741><snm>Jackson, Richard Eric, et al</snm><adr><str>Carpmaels &amp; Ransford, 43 Bloomsbury Square</str><city>London WC1A 2RA</city><ctry>GB</ctry></adr></B741></B740></B700><B800><B840><ctry>DE</ctry><ctry>FR</ctry><ctry>GB</ctry><ctry>SE</ctry></B840><B860><B861><dnum><anum>US1997002420</anum></dnum><date>19970218</date></B861><B862>en</B862></B860><B870><B871><dnum><pnum>WO1997030552</pnum></dnum><date>19970821</date><bnum>199736</bnum></B871></B870></B800></SDOBI></ep-patent-document>