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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860250 | Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances to remote client devices A server in a subscriber television network receives service instances from a headend of the subscriber television network. The server is adapted to encrypt according to an encryption scheme and re-transmit service instances to a client-receiver. The server reformat... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7505592 | Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances to remote client devices A server in a subscriber television network receives service instances from a headend of the subscriber television network. The server is adapted to encrypt according to an encryption scheme and re-transmit service instances to a client-receiver. The server reformat... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7424739 | On-machine communication verification The present invention provides for validating that one or more modules reside on the same machine. When a second module wishes to establish communication with a first module, a shared memory that is accessible by the modules—but inaccessible by modules outside the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400725 | Information recording medium for recording a scrambled part of content information, and method and apparatus for reproducing information recorded therein An information recording medium, such as an optical disk or the like, is provided for recording at least copyrighted content information and cipher key information. A part of the content information is scrambled and recorded in the information recording medium, and ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7380132 | Data recording method and apparatus, data record medium and data reproducing method and apparatus An input is ciphered in at least one of a sector forming circuit 13, a scrambling circuit 14, a header appendage circuit 15, an error correction encoding circuit 16, a modulation circuit 17 and a synchronization appendage circuit | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380137 | Content guard system for copy protection of recordable media A system and method for enabling broadcast programs to be copied once only by consumer recorders includes writing a unique media identification on each blank disk to which content is to copied in a read-only area of the disk before it is initially recorded. Also, a ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372915 | Transmitting method and transmitting device, receiving method and receiving device, and transfer method and transfer system Data broadcast data, which is broadcast in data broadcasts, is constructed by disposing, for example, EMD (Electric Music Distribution) links required to acquire song data as actual broadcast data, which is broadcast in actual broadcasts by a transmitting device, th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370343 | Electronic program guide with blackout features An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for remindin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363511 | Method for processing audiovisual information in an electronic device, a system, and an electronic device A method for processing audiovisual information in an electronic device comprises at least one control block for controlling the operation of the electronic device, and a memory. The audiovisual information is encrypted. The control block is provided with a protecte... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363504 | Method and system for keystroke scan recognition biometrics on a smartcard The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using keystroke scan biometrics in a smartcard-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a keystroke scan sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying bi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336788 | Electronic book secure communication with home subsystem The invention, an electronic book selection and delivery system, is a new way to distribute books and other textual information to bookstores, libraries and consumers. The primary components of the system are a subsystem for placing text in a video signal format and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7310423 | Processing multiple encrypted transport streams A single decryption engine is used for decrypting a plurality of encrypted transport streams. Packets in each of the plurality of encrypted transport streams are tagged with a tag value to indicate their origin stream. The tagged packets from the plurality of encryp... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7305366 | Content revocation and license modification in a digital rights management (DRM) system on a computing device Content revocation is achieved by disabling licenses issued to a computing device for the content. A content revocation is delivered within a license to the computing device. Upon license storage the content revocation is recognized, validated, and stored in a secur... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302578 | Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, program-initiation error processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus has a detection unit to detect a recording medium and initiates a program read from the recording medium detected by the detection unit. In the information processing apparatus, an operation check unit performs an operation check ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299504 | System and method for implementing security management using a database-modeled security policy A database-modeled security policy includes policy statements stored in a database. Each policy statement has associated standards, guidelines, and procedures. Policy statements are grouped together into tag groups, which are in turn grouped together to form metapol... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293279 | Advanced set top terminal having a program pause feature with voice-to-text conversion A system for automatically pausing a video program in response to detection of the occurrence of a audio communications event or triggering event. In response to an incoming phone call, message, web page, or other communications information, the system pauses the vi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7263189 | Data transmission and receiving apparatus for digital broadcast signals which include control information In a transmission apparatus, still picture outputting control information is multiplexed to a transmission signal and in a receiving apparatus, still picture is extracted from moving picture. Still picture data to be outputted can be processed and the charge can be ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260829 | Terminal with multiple audio and video A novel advanced set top terminal capable of digital decompression, displaying picture-on-picture, outputting multiple video channels, outputting multiple audio signals, outputting multiple audio channels corresponding to a single video channel, and other advanced f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254716 | Security supervisor governing allowed transactions on a system bus A circuit generally comprising a plurality of master modules and a supervisor module is disclosed. The supervisor module may be configured to (i) detect a target address and a particular master module of the master modules initiating a transaction on a bus, (ii) ide... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240217 | Reprogrammable subscriber terminal A reprogrammable subscriber terminal of a subscription television service which can have the control program code of its control processor modified by downloading new program code from the headend. The control processor stores a boot program in an internal read only... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239717 | Lossless embedding of data in digital objects Current methods of embedding hidden data in an image inevitably distort the original image by noise. This distortion cannot generally be removed completely because of quantization, bit-replacement, or truncation at the grayscales 0 and 255. The distortion, though of... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229354 | Interactive wagering systems and methods for restricting wagering access Systems and methods are provided for an interactive wagering application that restricts wagering access. The restrictions may be based on user-defined restrictions on the location of the user equipment or any other suitable criterion. The interactive wagering applic... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228413 | Data transmitting/receiving method and its receiver A data transmitting/receiving method for charging the reception of pay data in units of a reception or in units of a group to which receivers belong with a high degree of freedom and its receiver. The transmission side allocates the same group identification number ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7216368 | Information processing apparatus for watermarking digital content This invention relates to an information processing apparatus for managing copyrights under SDMI provisions as well as the copyrights for contents distributed over the Internet. Data Enc(Kc, Content) generated by encrypting a given content using a content key Kc are... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209900 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209893 | Method of and a system for distributing electronic content A terminal device, a memory module and a system for and method of distributing electronic content. A content provider stores a number of multimedia files. A first integrated circuit card interface receives a host integrated circuit card containing first authorizatio... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203336 | Embedding data in material A method of embedding data in material comprises the steps of: embedding data in original material to produce data embedded material; removing the watermark from the data embedded material to produce recovered mate... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187780 | Image processing methods using reversible watermarking The ability to remove a watermark from an encoded image opens the possibility of various novel applications. Several such applications are detailed. One employs a reversible watermark in conjunction with a second (robust) watermark. In this arrangement, the payload ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181010 | Apparatus for entitling remote client devices A server in a subscriber television network receives service instances from a headend of the subscriber television network. The server is adapted to encrypt according to an encryption scheme and re-transmit service instances to a client-receiver. The server reformat... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7158185 | Method and apparatus for tagging media presentations with subscriber identification information A system that inserts subscriber identification information includes, in a preferred embodiment, a system with a memory for storing subscriber identification information and a processor configured to insert the subscriber identification information into a media pres... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149895 | Personal device, terminal, server and methods for establishing a trustworthy connection between a user and a terminal The invention is related to a system which allows a user to authenticate unknown terminals. The invention uses a first authentication step wherein the terminal authenticates itself to a server. Depending on whether the personal device has its own output means, such ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133903 | Event control device and digital broadcasting system To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127733 | System for bi-directional voice and data communications over a video distribution network The present invention relates generally to an apparatus for bi-directional communications of voice, data, and alarms, and simultaneous transmission of video signals over a single cable such as coax. In more particular, it applies to a communications system that util... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120923 | Electronic television program guide data naming system and method Electronic television program guide information is downloaded, stored and searched by a local device. A plurality of linked lists are used to remove redundancy, increase search speed, and allow dynamic categories. When a new category is encountered a new head node f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113926 | Secure media on demand system whereby charge is determined in part from the periodicity of an encryption key An object of the invention is to provide a transmitting system of which data is difficult to be tapped and which is suitable for flexibly determining a watching and listening fee. In order to achieve the object, there is provided a combination of a transmitting meth... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110985 | Content revocation and license modification in a digital rights management (DRM) system on a computing device Content revocation is achieved by disabling licenses issued to a computing device for the content. A content revocation is delivered within a license to the computing device. Upon license storage the content revocation is recognized, validated, and stored in a secur... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7080043 | Content revocation and license modification in a digital rights management (DRM) system on a computing device Content revocation is achieved by disabling licenses issued to a computing device for the content. A content revocation is delivered within a license to the computing device. Upon license storage the content revocation is recognized, validated, and stored in a secur... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079191 | Digital broadcast reception apparatus and picture printing method A frame memory for extending data of an picture demonstrated on an picture display device is effectively utilized to effect the printing of an picture demonstrated on the picture display device inexpensively and appropriately. To this end, there is provided a printi... | 07/18/2006 |
