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5901339 Pay broadcasting system  
A system for the so-called "pay-per-program" is provided for viewing individual program on pay basis without signing a comprehensive contract. In response to a request for viewing a pay program...
5880769 Interactive smart card system for integrating the provision of remote and local services  
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of remote service transactions. According to the present invention, a smart card includes optics for receiving...
5828845 Interrupt-based system  
An apparatus and method provide an interrupt-based add-on service for use in a service subscription system having a central service provider and at least one subscriber unit. The interrupt-based...
5822123 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with pop-up hints  
An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels and a tuner for tuning a...
5798785 Terminal for suggesting programs offered on a television program delivery system  
A novel reprogrammable set top terminal for a television program delivery system which suggests programs for viewing is described. The invention relates to methods and apparatus for reprogramming...
5790177 Digital signal recording/reproduction apparatus and method  
The present invention describes a new digital video tape recorder apparatus and method in which video channels are simultaneously recorded in a recording mode, and in which any of the recorded...
5771064 Home communications terminal having an applications module  
A home communications terminal for use in a communications network is provided. The home communications terminal includes an applications module and a subscriber terminal module. The applications...
5764275 Interactive television security through transaction time stamping  
A system for providing security on an interactive television system. Two sets of interactive data, with time stamps, are separately sent to a remote location. At the remote location, the time...
5740075 Access subnetwork controller for video dial tone networks  
An access subnetwork provides broadcast access transport as well as selective allocation of resources for interactive communications sessions dedicated to individual end users. The access...
5701152 Arrangement for billing interactive communication services  
Only one or only a few channels are sent at a time from curbside circuitry located in a curbside box, via a link such as either a coaxial or a fiber cable, into a customer's home TV set or personal...
5675647 Cable TV system using passwords  
This invention relates to a method of distributing signals to valid subscribers comprised of storing subscriber terminal valid identification codes at a central station, broadcasting promotions of...
5661517 Interactive intelligent video information system  
Method and apparatus for providing customers of hospitality facilities with the ability to access a variety of amenities and to interact with a video system in order to enable point-of-sale...
5654747 Intelligent multimedia set-top control method and apparatus in which billing signals are communicated to an information network upon presentation of downloaded media programs  
A method and apparatus for effectuating the reception and local storage of source information signals representative of a media program transmitted from a source information network preferably over...
5629733 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with display and search of program listings by title  
An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels and a tuner for tuning a...
5621456 Methods and apparatus for audio-visual interface for the display of multiple program categories  
An interactive audio-visual (A/V) transceiver is advantageously coupled to a television and/or telephone (T/T) cable, a TV, a video recorder (VCR), and other A/V devices. The A/V transceiver...
5604528 Method and apparatus for providing periodic subscription television services  
A method and apparatus for providing periodic subscription television services comprises a way for subscribers who cannot afford the fees for full time television services such as a regular cable...
5603078 Remote control device with credit card reading and transmission capabilities having multiple IR LEDs  
An infrared remote control unit including an integrated card reading device. The unit is used for purchasing products or services offered via a television monitor, such that the unit transfers data...
5596373 Method and apparatus for providing program oriented information in a multiple station broadcast system  
An innovative but easy to use on-line program list is provided to provide the user of a multiple channel television broadcast system a wealth of programming information in a simple format that is...
5594509 Method and apparatus for audio-visual interface for the display of multiple levels of information on a display  
An interactive audio-visual (A/V) transceiver is advantageously coupled to a television and/or telephone (T/T) cable, a TV, a video recorder (VCR), and other A/V devices. The A/V transceiver...
5585866 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method including virtual channels  
An electronic program schedule system having virtual channels which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels...
5559548 System and method for generating an information display schedule for an electronic program guide  
An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving television program schedule information and promotional information transmitted via satellite, a digital playback...
5537473 Video recorder system  
A video recorder system adapted to receive subscription television services is of the type which controls access to the subscription services by means of a smart card. Where payment is due for each...
5505901 CATV pay per view interdiction system method and apparatus  
Off-premises cable television pay per view apparatus is coupled between first and second diplexers of off-premises subscriber service providing equipment. The diplexers separate the transmission...
5499048 Multi-video/audio system and method of controlling the same  
A multi-video/audio system and a method of controlling the same. The system comprises a CPU for controlling the entire operation of the system, a card input/output unit for ascertaining a card...
5481542 Interactive information services control system  
A digital video, audio and data distribution system which enables a set-top terminal (STT) associated with a customer's television set or other information presentation device to request...
5479508 Method of operating a pay per view television system  
A method of operating a cable system having premium channel encoders and dedicated smart pay per view encoders, each associated with an individual channel. The pay per view encoders are provided...
5477262 Method and apparatus for providing an on-screen user interface for a subscription television terminal  
Apparatus for providing a user friendly interface to a subscription television terminal comprises a key pad arranged into a plurality of key groupings and an on-screen display controller for...
5459506 Enhanced pay per view system  
A pay-per-view system for a cable television network that gives the subscribers a greatly enhanced variety of viewing choices. The system uses an interactive set top box for the subscribers to...
5420923 Addressed messaging in a cable television system  
A method of transmitting addressed messages to subscribers comprises the steps of defining the group or individual subscriber to be addressed, creating the message, assigning the message to the...
5400402 System for limiting use of down-loaded video-on-demand data  
A digital data system that includes a control system at a customer site that blocks access to a down-loaded stored program after it has been viewed a predetermined number of times (e.g., once), or...
5367330 Pay-per-view television delivery system  
Method and apparatus are provided for controlling and delivering television programming from a control station to one or more substations, which in turn transmit television programming to remote...
5359419 Programmable CATV system and termainal unit therefor, including acknowledgement of program request  
A CATV system is provided with a head end apparatus which transmits program data to each subscriber of a chargeable program so that a subscriber knows at the time of applying for a chargeable...
5357276 Method of providing video on demand with VCR like functions  
A near video on demand time shifting feature for a subscriber terminal emulates the video cassette recorder functions of pause, fast forward, and rewind for a NVOD service subscription. The...
5355162 Multi-standard cable television system  
A cable television system has a multiplicity of television program sources providing television signals in various predefined television signal formats. The program sources include continuous...
5329590 Automatic pay-per-view reception in a satellite receiver  
An automated pay-per-view activation method is disclosed for use in integrated television receive-only satellite receiver/descramblers. The automated procedure allows for automatic activation of...
5319454 CATV system enabling access to premium (pay per view) program events by bar code data entry  
In order to enable viewing of single events without requiring a CATV subscriber to order the event in advance, documents are distributed to subscribers containing cognizable (advertising) data...
5317391 Method and apparatus for providing message information to subscribers in a cable television system  
A subscriber terminal apparatus for a television in an in-band subscription television system is provided. The subscriber terminal includes a receiver for receiving a television signal including...
5267032 Device for detecting termination of connection to a programme to be paid for, received by a subscriber unit via an interactive remote distribution network  
The device of the invention comprises, in the terminal (7) of each subscriber, a carrier wave generator which sends this wave to a distribution center (1) as long as the television of this terminal...
5255086 Method and apparatus for RF data transfer in a CATV system  
A method of controlling the allocation of a population of remote units among a plurality of groups of remote units is provided. Each remote unit has a digital identifier respectively associated...
5251324 Method and apparatus for generating and collecting viewing statistics for remote terminals in a cable television system  
A method and apparatus for generating and collecting viewing statistics in a cable television system is provided. For example, data relating to television channels being viewed at remote terminals...
5181106 Video line shelf arrangement in an optical fiber telecommunications network providing broadband switched video services  
A video line shelf arrangement allows for incremental growth in video channels provided to optical network units. The arrangement includes a number of video line shelves disposed vertically in a...
5157716 Dynamic callback technique  
A dynamic global callback technique which is capable of maintaining a manageable number of incoming calls to a central location from a plurality of remote units. A plurality of remote units are...
5155590 System for data channel level control  
Automatic level calibration apparatus for transmitting data from a cable television terminal to the headend of a cable television system comprises programmable transmitter apparatus of the...
5151782 Control system for satellite delivered pay-per-view television system  
In a system including an originating source for providing multiple television programs to one or more local cable television systems for their distribution on a pay-per-view basis, data processing...
5144663 Method of interactive communication between a subscriber and a decoder of a system of pay-television and decoder thereof  
A decoder comprising a microprocessor connected to a receiver of data of teletext and to a text generator for displaying information on the screen of a television receiver. Further, a CPTV-card...
5142690 Cable television radio frequency data processor  
A cable television radio frequency data processor for receiving and processing data transmitted from a cable television terminal to the headend of a cable television system comprises a plurality of...
5105268 Community antenna broadcast system having an improved channel selecting system permitting purchase of a selected channel from a plurality of non-purchased channels  
A community antenna broadcasting system comprises a transmitting center for broadcasting programs in physical channels, a transmission path, and one or a plurality of home terminals for receiving...
5091937 CATV terminal unit  
A CATV terminal in which an on-screen video message is superimposed over the selected video program to indicate if the selected program is a pay per view, i.e., chargeable, program. The in-band...
5081680 Initial reporting of remotely generated data  
A device for reporting remotely stored data is coupled to a descrambler in an impulse pay-per-view television system for storing and reporting data pertaining to subject matter descrambled by the...
5046093 CATV subscriber apparatus with intelligent remote control  
Subscriber apparatus for a cable television system or the like comprises a converter/descrambler and a programmable remote control. All authorization data for premium services and features a...
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