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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5557318 | Method and apparatus for permitting a viewer to scan through a plurality of video signals provided by a transmitter Method and apparatus for providing a receiver a high quality video signal and a plurality of lower quality video signals which can be zapped, i.e., searched through at any given time, via a channel having a limited data capacity. A first set of high quali... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5550863 | Audio and video transmission and receiving system A system of distributing video and/or audio information employs digital signal processing to achieve high rates of data compression. The compressed and encoded audio and/or video information is sent over standard telephone, cable or satellite broadcast ch... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5544313 | Baton passing optimization scheme for load balancing/configuration planning in a video-on-demand computer system A video on demand computer system includes a plurality of storage media each storing a plurality of videos. The storage media are disks attached to a computer system. The computer system plays the videos on demand by reading out the videos from the disks ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5534912 | Extended range video on demand distribution system In a video on demand system utilizing asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) interfaces, a plurality of video channels are arranged at a central office into ADSL format and, together with a provisioning channel, are multiplexed into a composite spectru... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5485197 | Carousel display An interactive home information system is described for providing interactive cable television services to a plurality of subscribers. The system includes a "node" which is in communication with the headend of the system and a group of subscriber home int... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5341258 | Automated cassette library system A system for controlling an automated video cassette library apparatus is provided which is actuated in response to command signals originated by an individual at a location remote from such apparatus to transfer a select video cassette in a horizontal pl... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5341474 | Communications architecture and buffer for distributing information services A store-and-forward architecture which stores and distributes information programs to subscribers includes: information warehouses which archive information programs and dispense information programs in segments to central offices in bursts; central offic... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5313297 | System for providing pictures responding to users' remote control A system for providing pictures responding to users' remote control is an system for providing digital picture signals of respective programs specified by operation signals from external communication lines. The system comprises a line control equipment f... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5262875 | Audio/video file server including decompression/playback means An audio/video file server includes a storage unit for centrally storing compressed digital audio/video program information, a transceiver for receiving compressed digital audio/video program information from an external source over a less-than-real-time ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5229850 | Video monitoring system including a memory for storing and transmitting a video signal immediately following the occurrence of an event A communication path is established, only when monitoring a video signal on an object is required, between a sending station which acquires the video signal and a receiving station which monitors the acquired video signal through a display or the like. Us... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5019900 | Telephone access display system A method using a programmed data processor to operate a cable television system wherein a subscriber can select video information to be displayed on a common channel of the television monitors of all subscribers. The subscriber accesses the data processor... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4995078 | Television broadcast system for selective transmission of viewer-chosen programs at viewer-requested times A television broadcast system using land lines is provided for real-time transmission of a viewer-chosen program at a viewer requested time to the requesting viewer's television receiver. The preferred method includes the steps of providing a collection o... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4890320 | Television broadcast system for selective transmission of viewer-chosen programs at viewer-requested times A televsion broadcast system using land lines is provided for real-time transmission of a viewer-chosen program at a viewer requested time to the requesting viewer's television receiver. The preferred method includes the steps of providing a collection of... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4887152 | Message delivery system operable in an override mode upon reception of a command signal An information transmission system for transmitting signals from a transmitting side through a single transmission line to a plurality of terminal units. When the terminal units are interrupted by a command signal from the transmitting side, transmission ... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4835604 | Aircraft service system with a central control system for attendant call lights and passenger reading lights A system and method for providing service in an aircraft having a plurality of passenger seats. The system of the invention includes a plurality of attendant call lights each serving a different one of the passenger seats, a plurality of reading lights ea... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4521806 | Recorded program communication system A plurality of recorded audio/video signal sources of a program library sequentially transmit segments of a broadcast signal within a time compressed transmission period through a common signal carrier path to a plurality of subscriber stations at which s... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4506387 | Programming-on-demand cable system and method A programming-on-demand cable system is provided which allows any one of a plurality of individual users to request anyone of a plurality of video programs they wish to view from a library of programs, and permits the requested program to be available for... | 03/19/1985 |
