System and data management and on-demand rental and purchase of digital data products
First Claim
1. A digital data delivery system for providing automatic delivery of digital data products from one or more digital data product providers, comprising:
- a remote account transaction server for providing a digital catalog of digital data products for delivery to an end user, for providing the end user access to the digital data products, and for negotiating the acquisition of the digital data products from the digital data product providers; and
a programmable local receiver unit for interfacing the end user with the remote account transaction server to select specific digital data products for delivery, for interfacing with the digital data product providers to receive the specific digital data products, for processing and recording the digital data products according to user-specified programming options, and for playing back the specific digital data products.
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Abstract
A system for handling data and transactions involving data through the use of a virtual transaction zone, which virtual transaction zone removes the dependency of such transaction on the delivery medium of the product. The invention may reside and operate on a variety of electronic devices such as televisions, VCRs, DVDs, personal computers, WebTV, any other known electronic recorder/player, or as a stand alone unit. The transaction zone also provides a mechanism for combining mediums, data feeds, and manipulation of those feeds. The transaction zone also provides a mechanism for controlling the content, delivery, and timing of delivery of the end consumer'"'"'s product.
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112 Claims
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1. A digital data delivery system for providing automatic delivery of digital data products from one or more digital data product providers, comprising:
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a remote account transaction server for providing a digital catalog of digital data products for delivery to an end user, for providing the end user access to the digital data products, and for negotiating the acquisition of the digital data products from the digital data product providers; and
a programmable local receiver unit for interfacing the end user with the remote account transaction server to select specific digital data products for delivery, for interfacing with the digital data product providers to receive the specific digital data products, for processing and recording the digital data products according to user-specified programming options, and for playing back the specific digital data products. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 112)
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20. A system for the processing, recording, playback and display of digital data, comprising:
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a receiver apparatus for receiving the broadcast data from at least one data feed;
memory circuitry comprising a built-in, high capacity, non-movable storage device;
processing circuitry for processing the digital data and for storing the processed data in the storage device;
a user interface operatively connected to the processing circuitry for programming which processing functions are to be applied to the received data by the processing circuitry;
a microprocessor having software programming to control the operation of the processing circuitry and the playback circuitry enabling simultaneous read/write operations, the software programming interacting with the built-in, non-movable storage device and the playback apparatus for recording digital data products on a storage device, the software programming further interacting with the playback circuitry to allow the digital data products to be recorded and played in real time, the playback may be paused wherein a cue point in registered in memory, and later played back from the cue point while the digital data products delivered from a digital data product provider are being continuously recorded without interruption by the either the pause or the playback; and
playback circuitry, which reads the data from the non-movable storage device and which converts the data to electronic signals for driving a playback apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 84)
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62. A recorder, comprising:
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a receiver apparatus for receiving broadcast data from at least one data feed;
a non-movable storage device which is built into the recorder;
processing circuitry for processing the broadcast data and for storing the processed data in the storage device;
a user interface operatively connected to the processing circuitry for programming which processing functions are to be applied to the received data by the processing circuitry;
playback circuitry which reads the data from the storage device and which converts that data to electronic signals for driving playback apparatus; and
a microprocessor having software programming to control the operation of the processing circuitry and the playback circuitry enabling simultaneous read/write operations, the software programming interacting with the built-in, non-movable storage device and the playback apparatus for recording digital data products on a storage device, the software programming further interacting with the playback circuitry to allow the digital data products to be recorded and played in real time, the playback may be paused wherein a cue point in registered in memory, and later played back from the cue point while the digital data products delivered from a digital data product provider are being continuously recorded without interruption by the either the pause or the playback; and
an output channel to send the digital data to an audio/video display. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100)
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101. A system for the processing, recording, playback and display of broadcast audio data, comprising:
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receiver apparatus for receiving the broadcast data from at least one data feed;
a built-in, high capacity, non-movable storage device;
processing circuitry for processing the broadcast data and for storing the processed data in the storage device;
a user interface operatively connected to the processing circuitry for programming which processing functions are to be applied to the received data by the processing circuitry;
playback circuitry, which reads the data from the non-movable storage device and which, converts that data to electronic signals for driving a display;
a microprocessor having software programming to control the operation of the processing circuitry and the playback circuitry enabling simultaneous read/write operations, the software programming interacting with the built-in, non-movable storage device and the playback apparatus for recording digital data products on a storage device, the software programming further interacting with the playback circuitry to allow the digital data products to be recorded and played in real time, the playback may be paused wherein a cue point in registered in memory, and later played back from the cue point while the digital data products delivered from a digital data product provider are being continuously recorded without interruption by the either the pause or the playback; and
an audio playback apparatus which is driven by the playback circuitry. - View Dependent Claims (102, 103, 104, 105)
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106. A system for the processing, recording, playback and display of from a local source of data, comprising:
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receiver apparatus for receiving the data from at least one data feed;
a non-movable storage device;
processing circuitry for processing the data and for storing the processed data in the storage device;
a user interface operatively connected to the processing circuitry for programming which processing functions are to be applied to the received data by the processing circuitry;
playback circuitry, which reads the data from the non-movable storage device and which, converts that data to electronic signals for driving a display;
a microprocessor having software programming to control the operation of the processing circuitry and the playback circuitry enabling simultaneous read/write operations, the software programming interacting with the built-in, non-movable storage device and the playback apparatus for recording digital data products on a storage device, the software programming further interacting with the playback circuitry to allow the digital data products to be recorded and played in real time, the playback may be paused wherein a cue point in registered in memory, and later played back from the cue point while the digital data products delivered from a digital data product provider are being continuously recorded without interruption by the either the pause or the playback; and
a playback apparatus which is driven by the playback circuitry. - View Dependent Claims (107, 108, 109, 110, 111)
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