Dial-up telephone network equipment for requesting an identified selection
March 17, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent References 3484560 3570008 3920908 Data transmission systems (using internal systems equipment, services and procedures of telephone companies) Interoffice callback arrangement Data base communication call processing method Method and apparatus for storing announcements in a communications system Text mailing system using a telephone line Buffer memory dispersion type video/audio transmission system with spatially and timewise divided inter-office junction lines Secured communications system InventorsApplicationNo. 06/840375 filed on 03/17/1986US Classes:725/104, Pay-per-view379/102.07, Having indication379/207.15, Automatic number identification or calling number identification (ANI or CLID)379/246, Of line or trunk379/91.02, At switching station725/1BILLING IN VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMExaminersPrimary: George, Keith E.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesH04M 11/00 (20060101)H04Q 3/00 (20060101) H04M 3/42 (20060101) H04N 7/173 (20060101) AbstractA method and an arrangement are disclosed for providing a nationwide dial-a-view service in which a caller desiring a given viewing selection dials an "800" dial-a-view number for ordering that selection through the telephone networking arrangement. The arrangement includes local and toll switching offices for accessing a centralized database system for providing routing instructions advantageously to network services equipment which acknowledges the request and processes the request to cable television distribution equipment. The dialed "800" number is recognized as a dial-a-view request, and the database system provides the originating toll office with routing instructions for sending the request to the network service equipment. Automatic number identification of the caller is requested from the originating toll office and forwarded along with requested programming to the vendor equipment. The vendor equipment supplies the requested programming to the calling customer via an addressable decoder at the calling customer's television. The vendor equipment also perform customer order entitlement verification prior to supplying the calling customer with the requested programming.Other References
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