Nds Corporation

Yonatan Silver

Yossef Tsuria

Shlomo Kipnis

Shabtai Atlow

Carmi Bogot

Reuven Wachtfogel

David Richardson

Jonathan Maissel

A digital television recording method comprising: broadcasting a television program associated with a broadcaster set of parameters enabling access to a first set of predetermined portions of the program; operating an agent for determining whether to record the program and for associating with the program, upon recording of the program, an agent set of parameters enabling access to a second set of predetermined portions of the program; storing the program together with the broadcaster set of parameters and the agent set of parameters to generate an addressable program; retrieving at least a portion of the addressable program; displaying the at least a portion of the addressable program to a user; receiving from the user a user set of parameters enabling access to a third set of predetermined portions of the addressable program; editing the addressable program to include the user set of parameters enabling access to the third set of predetermined portions of the addressable program thereby generating an edited addressable program; and storing the edited addressable program.

Advanced television system

An interactive multi-channel game method is described. The method includes providing a first representation of a game element associated with a first channel of a multi-channel system, replacing the first representation with a second representation of the game element associated with a second channel of the multi-channel system, providing a clue associated with the second channel, and receiving a user input representing a user's response to the clue. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Interactive inter-channel game

An access control method for use with a broadcast communication network is described. The access control method includes the steps of receiving an encoded program at a subscriber unit via the broadcast communication network, and preventing decoding of the encoded program at the subscriber unit for at least one preselected time period, preselected in accordance with a preference of a user of the subscriber unit. Alternatively, the encoded program received at the subscriber unit may be decoded for at least one preselected time period, preselected in accordance with a preference of the user of the subscriber unit. Related methods and apparatus are also described.

Time-dependent authorization

A portable transaction device including transaction apparatus operative to participate in a monetary transaction, authorization apparatus operative to authorize the transaction apparatus to operate based on stored authorization parameters, and control apparatus operative to store the stored authorization parameters based on user input. The stored authorization parameters include at least one of the following: an identity of a user, a time period, and a distance. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.

Portable transaction device

A subscriber unit in a television system including an integrated receiver and decoder (IRD) including a first smart card reader which is operative to accept a first smart card, and a remote control including a second smart card reader which is operative to accept a second smart card. The first smart card and the second smart card, when inserted in the corresponding first and second smart card readers respectively, are operative to communicate with each other in wireless communication over a wireless communication link to control access to services.

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Jerusalem, Israel

Yonatan Silver