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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 multiple billing events on a single, prepaid subscriber account. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7305357 | Method and system for providing and controlling delivery of content on-demand over a cable television network and a data network A system and method for delivering content on-demand by way of a cable network are disclosed. Provision of such content is controlled over a data network. Advantageously, a user interface at a conventional computing device may be used to order content and to control... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 identification number, a card private number and deposit balan... | 03/12/1996 |
| 4878245 | Control and metering system for pay television over a cable network An improved control and metering system for pay television distribution over a cable network. A control unit is located near each receiver on a subscribers premises and a secure filter, switching and metering unit is located external to the subscribers ho... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4081832 | Pay television system, method and apparatus An improved pay TV method and apparatus is disclosed, characterized in that the program to be broadcast is encoded to effect electrical inversion of selected groups of lines of the program, thereby to scramble and disguise the video and audio signals. Sim... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4008369 | Telephone interfaced subscription cable television system especially useful in hotels and motels A PABX telephone interfaced cable television system especially useful in hotels and motels for distributing free and premium program channels via a coaxial cable television signal distribution network to one or more subscriber terminals and associated tel... | 02/15/1977 |
