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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1992
Melvin J Teare, Framingham, MA (US);
Stephen S Walker, Marlborough, MA (US);
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A communication system includes a remote mobile node which acquires time-correlated data of its actual position from a global positional system (GPS), and securely transmits the information as a position history to a central facility. The mobile node includes encrypted programming material such as copyrighted video. At the central facility, a comparison is made between the received position history and predetermined signature data representing acceptable time-position histories. If a positive match is detected, a decryption key associated with the matched history is forwarded to the mobile node for decoding of the encrypted programming material.