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7620574 |
Cable billing systems and methods enabling independence of service marketing and provisioning from billing and collection of revenue
Systems and methods that divide the billing function of a billing system from the provisioning function of a service in digital cable systems. Because the billing system is only responsible for...
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7613657 |
Reverse rating system for determining duration of a usage transaction
A reverse rating system determines the duration for which a phone call or other transaction may continue, given an account balance on a pre-paid customer account. The duration may take into...
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7603384 |
Individualizing and encrypting on-demand media content in retail kiosks
A system for selecting and recording data, comprising: a local storage unit for storing a subset of media content items and other content; a content selection unit to display a catalog of the media...
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7603103 |
Banded billing and associated invoice generation for communication service
An improved billing system for communication service is disclosed. A printed and/or online invoice will be generated for a subscriber's account and will be structured to include a visual gauge that...
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7562049 |
Payment system and method for data broadcasted from a remote location to vehicles
The present invention is directed to a payment system and method for chargeable data that is broadcasted from a remote location. The payment system and method includes a Web site, the remote...
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7543319 |
Presenting notifications in response to viewer-initiated actions
Notification data is received and stored at a client device. A notice represented by the notification data is then displayed to the television viewer when a channel change event is detected. The...
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7509668 |
Leasing a configured camera system
A method for a customer leasing a configured camera system including a camera and services for using such configured camera system and paying for the lease of such configured camera system,...
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7430752 |
Method for evaluating a bonus from authorized playbacks of a recording on a device other than a device used to make the recording
In a “Pay per view” system ( 5 ), a playback device ( 1,2,3 ) of a user of the “Pay per view” system ( 5 ) obtains a playback authorization by an authorizing device ( 4 ) from a recording...
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7389271 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
An information processing apparatus in which main information is stored in a first storage unit and subinformation associated with the main information is stored in a second storage unit. The user...
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7366495 |
Prepaid reservation-based rating system
A billing system comprising servers, routers, and processors programmed to provide reservation based prepaid billing is disclosed. The billing system is also programmed to concurrently process...
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7353270 |
Media and advertisement distribution and tracking system and method of operation thereof
For use with a computer network, a media (perhaps music) and advertisement distribution and tracking system and a method of distributing and tracking media and advertisements. In one embodiment,...
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7343420 |
Data contents distribution system
A data contents distribution system in which a contents distribution server puts contents and trial contents of the contents in question on a Web site on a network and a client side device of a...
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7313804 |
Broadcast program transmission/reception system, method for transmitting/receiving broadcast program, program that exemplifies the method for transmitting/receiving broadcast program, recording medium that is readable to a computer on which the program is recorded, pay broadcast program site, CM information management site, and viewer's terminal
The broadcast program transmission/reception system includes a pay broadcast program site containing pay broadcast programs, multiple CM information management sites each of which stores multiple...
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7310810 |
Broadcasting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and medium
To compensate a failure in downloading of music piece data. For example, when a viewer instructs purchase of a music pieceC to an IRD at a timing t 0 during the sixth transmission of music piece...
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7310809 |
Scalable pay-by-time technique for secure multicast distribution of streaming content
A method for receiving information content from an information distribution system, wherein the information content is divided into a plurality of content portions, the method comprising:...
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7302057 |
Method and process for transmitting video content
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for transmitting content from a content collection site to a content monitoring site, including inserting a first digital signature into...
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7272842 |
Digital content delivery system transaction engine
A system for delivering digital content on demand in a multiple unit environment includes a server local to the multiple unit environment. The server stores, in its memory, the digital content, and...
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7243364 |
Interactive entertainment network system and method for customizing operation thereof according to viewer preferences
An interactive entertainment network system has a video-on-demand (VOD) application which allows viewers to create their own customized lists of preferred video content programs, such as movies,...
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7242988 |
Adaptive pattern recognition based controller apparatus and method and human-factored interface therefore
The need for a more-readily usable interface for programmable devices is widely recognized. The present invention relates to programmable sequencing devices, or, more particularly, the remote...
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7231650 |
Method of geographically and financially expanding the business potential and commercial fall-out of local live event performances such as rock and musical concerts and the like
A novel method of geographically and financially expanding the business potential and commercial fall-out of local live event performances, such as local rock or other music concerts and the like,...
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7181431 |
Interactive information services system and associated method for facilitating purchasing transactions
A method and system are provided to permit a network operator to capture transaction data relating to transactions between a subscriber and a service provider that are conducted via a...
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7082198 |
Data receiving method and data receiving unit therefor
A data receiving method and unit extracts required data from among received digital signal data, and uses a predetermined decoding key to decode the extracted data. In the method and unit, it is...
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7080042 |
Method of and a system for distributing digital contents
In a digital content distribution method to distribute digital contents via a network, distribution of a digital content is instructed according to a distribution schedule, the digital content is...
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7039930 |
Television advertising automated billing system
Advertising is marked with a code in a way which makes it difficult to fool the system. The advertising is marked with a code at the time the advertising is produced. Then, when the advertising is...
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7039614 |
Method for simulcrypting scrambled data to a plurality of conditional access devices
In accordance with one embodiment, a method for storing a normal scrambled digital program is provided. The method includes receiving a scrambled program, and receiving a plurality of access...
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7003789 |
Television commerce payments
A method, system, and computer readable code for extending payment protocols to include information related to the television context of commercial activity between a consumer using a television...
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6976010 |
Method for syndicating online content
A method and system for making available syndicated content on-line from a variety of content providers while enforcing the exclusivity requirements for each of the content providers. The method...
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6970847 |
Business method for secure document folder distribution
A system, method, and computer readable medium for a business to securely distribute potentially large collections of document folders ( 180 ) to recipients ( 140 ). The system comprises a sending...
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6839503 |
Transfer apparatus and recording control system using a transfer control method selected based on a transfer rate of data
A transfer apparatus for transferring data which achieves balancing in profit and loss between a proprietor of copyright and a user includes an instruction section for providing an instruction of a...
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6834156 |
Method and apparatus for controlling user access and decryption of locally stored content at receivers in a digital broadcast system
The invention relates generally to a receiver unit in a digital broadcast system for receiving a broadcast signal comprising content segments and control data, and generating an output signal using...
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6810525 |
Impulse pay per use method and system for data and multimedia services
A method and system are provided for impulse purchasing of services over a communication network, such as a cable or satellite television network. Such services can include games or information...
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6760916 |
Method, system and computer program product for producing and distributing enhanced media downstreams
A multimedia production and distribution system collects or assembles a media production (such as, a news program, television programming, or radio broadcast) from a variety of sources, including...
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6546555 |
System for hypervideo filtering based on end-user payment interest and capability
A system for selling digital video information over a communications network such as the Internet basically includes a filtering server and a service administration system. The filtering server...
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6415328 |
System for retrieving data in a video server
In an audio/video server blocks of data are read from a storage medium by a reader and supplied to users in the form of data streams. The storage medium includes a plurality of storage units. The...
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6411307 |
Rotary menu wheel interface
An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu...
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6343319 |
Method and system for curriculum delivery
A computerized curriculum capture, organization and delivery system and method are provided, includes a data gathering mechanism for defining and downloading a quantity of data from a data source;...
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6297853 |
Apparatus and method for detecting, identifying and incorporating advertisements in a video image
A system (FIGS. 7 and 8) and method (FIG. 1) for video transmission of active events, for example sports events, having in the background physical images in designated targets, wherein the physical...
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6289314 |
Pay information providing system for descrambling information from plural sources and rescrambling the information before sending to a terminal or terminals
A server scrambles received pay information in an internal scrambler and then transmits the result to a terminal which sent a request. A second charge managing portion determines a charge for the...
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6285856 |
Wireless two-way communication system between center and user stations
The present invention is directed to a communication system which can be utilized to complement an existing cable television system in which a central office transmits signals along a coaxial cable...
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6249532 |
Interactive chargeable communication system with billing system therefor
A billing system for use in a chargeable program broadcasting is capable of reliably billing a subscriber for program reception while preventing unauthorized reception thereof. A receiving terminal...
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6240401 |
System and method for movie transaction processing
A system and method for tracking and processing transactions for such purposes as creating billing record and detecting possible fraudulent activities. The system and method relates to processing...
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6219086 |
Terminal apparatus
A terminal apparatus capable of holding a TV conference by communicating at least images and voices has a camera unit for taking a picture of participants in a TV conference to obtain video...
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6212359 |
Wireless Transceiver System For Digital Music
A method and apparatus are provided for a first controlled device, such as a wireless local transmitter that accepts a plurality of digital audio signals and corresponding program information...
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6191806 |
Demand-adaptive system and method for telephone requested cable programming
A management system and method for use with on-demand cable programming, wherein a customer telephones a cable supplier and requests that a particular video program be played. The management system...
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6157377 |
Method and apparatus for purchasing upgraded media features for programming transmissions
The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for purchasing media features for programming transmissions. A selection is sent to a server system to buy an upgraded media feature...
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6151626 |
Interactive television communication system
An interactive communication system comprises a central controller; and at least one remote unit connected in use to a display device, the central controller generating signals in accordance with a...
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6094680 |
System and method for managing distributed resources on networks
A network system includes a network, multiple network cites for facilitating user access to the network, and a network manager. Each network cite has storage facilities to provide various resources...
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6029046 |
Method and apparatus for a game delivery service including flash memory and a game back-up module
A communications terminal for receiving digital data services at a location remote from a transmitter comprises a service controller, a bus system, a random access memory and a non-volatile memory....
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6002694 |
Interactive chargeable communication system with billing system therefor
A billing system for use in a chargeable program broadcasting is capable of reliably billing a subscriber for program reception while preventing unauthorized reception thereof. A receiving terminal...
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5960416 |
Real time subscriber billing at a subscriber location in an unstructured communication network
A system and method are provided for real time subscriber billing at a subscriber location in an unstructured communication network. Account information is stored for at least one subscriber at the...
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