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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Douglas M. Dillon, Gaithersburg, MD (US);

Robert D. Cassagnol, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Assignee:

Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus for an adapter card, for use in a computer, to provide conditional access by the computer to incoming data streams while maintaining the security of information by maintaining a listing of addresses corresponding to data streams which the computer is authorized to receive, receiving and determining the address of a frame, determining whether the frame address matches an address maintained in an Access Table, and processing and transmitting only those frames of data streams which the computer is authorized to receive.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Dillon, Douglas. (2001). Adapter for connecting computer to satellite antenna (U.S. Patent No. 6215873). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6215873

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