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Method for streaming interactive content products

  • US 20010037506A1
  • Filed: 05/24/2001
  • Published: 11/01/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1998
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for delivering an on-demand content product from a head end to a plurality of remote users in which each of the users interactively controls the product from a product record, including the steps of:

  • storing at said head end said product in a random access memory;

    storing in memory an address of each user associatively with an identifier code of said content product and a use limit value;

    addressing said random access memory in a sequence respectively dictated by control signals generated by each of said plurality of users in order to generate a data stream of said product particularized to interactive control signals generated by each of said plurality of users including control signals to stop and start said data stream;

    transmitting said data stream to each of said plurality of users;

    blocking transmission of said data stream to a user when the use limit value stored in said storing step is reached or exceeded.

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