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Device for the intelligible consultation of data relating to the fees programs of a subscription television and/or radio service

  • US 5,235,415 A
  • Filed: 12/19/1990
  • Issued: 08/10/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a subscription television and/or radio system in which a subscriber can purchase selected items of at least one television and/or radio program broadcast by said system, each subscriber owning a security processor in which pieces of data relative to said selected items are written in a coded form, a device for the intelligible consultation of said data relative to said selected items written in said security processor, said device including:

  • means for expressing by said subscriber a request for an intelligible message concerning at least one of said selected items;

    means for receiving at least one correspondence table, said at least one correspondence table being multiplexed with said at least one television and/or radio program and being regularly transmitted, said at least one correspondence table associating to each piece of data susceptible to be written in said security processor a corresponding intelligible piece of message;

    means for processing said request of the subscriber, transcribing pieces of data written in a coded form in said security processor and corresponding to said request in an intelligible message, using said at least one correspondence table; and

    means for supplying said intelligible message to said subscriber, so as to make it known by said subscriber.

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