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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adrian Charles Paskins, Basingstoke, GB;
Assignee:
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 ; H04J 1/304 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 ; H04J 1/304 ;
Abstract
A digital video receiver, a conditional access module and method of transmitting data therebetween, the digital video receiver having a multi line socket for connection to the conditional access module, the socket having a pre-determined plurality of lines for transmitting and receiving transport stream data and a pre-determined plurality of lines for transmitting and receiving control data and resource/application data, the method comprising selectively transmitting resource/application data over the plurality of transport stream lines.