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Patent
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H04N 7/173 (2006.01) H04N 5/00 (2006.01) H04N 7/16 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2349401
A system for providing a video-on-demand service comprises a repository of video programmes, an administration facility associated with the repository of video programmes, one or more television broadcast receivers remote from the repository, a satellite communication channel capable of carrying a television broadcast signal between the repository and the television broadcast receivers, and a television broadcast transmitter capable of broadcasting any selected one of the video programmes in the repository along the satellite communication channel to the television broadcast receivers. The administration facility has a register of authorised users of the repository, and each television broadcast receiver has an associated storage means in the form of a hand disk drive. The broadcast selected video programme is stored, at least partially, upon reception thereof, in the associated storage means of the television broadcast receivers. An activation facility responsive to a request by a registered user enables the stored selected video programme for viewing on the television broadcast receiver. A billing facility bills the authorised user as a function of a number of stored video programmes viewed by that user.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Moyses Maria Elizabeth Danetta
LandOfFree
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