H - Electricity – 04 – N
Patent
H - Electricity
04
N
350/22, 354/35,
H04N 7/10 (2006.01) H04N 7/173 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1137215
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A system and method for accessing remote locations and transferring data to and from the accessed location, par- ticularly where the data is control data and billing information regarding programs actually viewed by a subscriber of a sub- scription television system, where access is over non-dedicated telephone lines. In the disclosed system, a scrambled tele- vision program signal containing a block of television program material and a program identification code unique to the block of program material is transmitted in the vertical retrace interval at a predetermined carrier frequency. The transmitted program signal is selectively received at a subscriber station and selectively unscrambled to permit viewing of the block of program material being transmitted in response to subscriber action indicating acceptance for viewing of the block of program material. The program identification code in the program signal received at the subscriber station is detected and stored for subsequent transmission as an electrical signal in response to the subscriber acceptance action. The program identification code stored at the subscriber station is selectively accessed from a remove location over non-dedicated telephone lines on other than a real time basis (e.g., a periodic basis) to thereby pro- vide billing information at the remote location as to programs actually viewed by the subscriber. The subscriber can thus be billed on some desired periodic basis for programs actually viewed. Access is provided by selectively conditioning the remote terminal to generate dialing signals and to thereby provide selective connection of the accumulator to the telephone lines from the remote subscriber station. A preconditioning circuit such as timing means or a broadcast signal decoder at the sub- scriber's station conditions the remote terminal to effect a connection by telephone to the central station during a time of the day when the telephone there is not likely to be used for normal telephone calls.
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Block Robert S.
Martin John R.
Barrigar & Moss
Block Robert S.
Martin John R.
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