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Video communication method

  • US 5,905,940 A
  • Filed: 02/04/1997
  • Issued: 05/18/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/04/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for transmitting videos by means of both up-stream and down-stream segments of television subscription service providers (TSSP) from one video recorder to another, comprising the steps of:

  • a. loading a video recording on which a destination subscriber'"'"'s video communication number has been pre-inscribed;

    b. seizing an idle up-stream channel;

    c. retrieving a pre-inscribed destination number;

    d. sending a call signal to a TSSP;

    e. extending the call signal via the digital broadband network if a destination is hooked up to a TSSP different from a sender'"'"'s;

    f. selecting a down-stream channel at a destination;

    g. tuning-in the selected down-stream channel at a destination;

    h. turning on a video recorder for recording at a destination;

    i. triggering a play back mode at a sender'"'"'s video recorder to start a transmission;

    j. triggering a call billing signal at the TSSP;

    k. digitizing, encoding, and encrypting the transmission at a sender'"'"'s;

    l. de-digitizing, de-encoding, and de-encrypting the transmission at a destination;

    m. initiating at the sender'"'"'s of a call clearing signal at the end of a transmission;

    n. triggering a call billing end signal at the TSSP; and

    o. initiating a clear confirmation signal from the destination;

    wherein a video recording is transferred from a sender to a destination via the TSSP.

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