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Broadcasting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and medium

  • US 7,310,810 B1
  • Filed: 05/18/2000
  • Issued: 12/18/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Broadcasting equipment for multiplexing downloadable content data together with program information onto a main broadcast signal of a broadcast program into a transport stream, comprising:

  • generating means for generating the program information, the program information including a purchase limit time;

    multiplexing means for repeatedly multiplexing the downloadable content data and the program information a plurality of times onto the main broadcast signal thereby generating the transport stream, the transport stream including a plurality of data segments, each data segment being representative of the downloadable content data; and

    purchase limit time setting means for setting the purchase limit time based on the time it takes to download a data segment representative of the downloadable content data.

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