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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas A Bush, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340825350 ; 380 10 ; 358 86 ; 340825030 ; 340825250 ;
Abstract
In a pay per view entertainment system, prerecorded entertainment such as musical works are distributed to subscribers over a cable network. The subscribers are able to listen to edited versions or previews of the complete musical works and to select desired musical works for recording. Before the musical work is recorded on a special receiver, the subscriber is billed for the service.