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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:
Sep. 13, 2005

Filed:

Mar. 24, 1999
Applicants:

Robert G. Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Boon-lock Yeo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Minerva Ming-yee Yeung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dmitriy Tesler, Foster City, CA (US);

Subrahmanyam Ramachandran, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert G. Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Boon-Lock Yeo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Minerva Ming-Yee Yeung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dmitriy Tesler, Foster City, CA (US);

Subrahmanyam Ramachandran, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N007/167 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In some embodiments, the invention includes a method to bit scramble a digital video signal. The method includes receiving blocks of the digital video signal and scrambling the blocks of the digital video signal responsive to a remote computer number. The remote computer number may be a processor number of a remote computer that may descramble the bit scrambled video signal. In other embodiments, the invention includes a method to descramble a bit scrambled video signal in a computer. The method includes receiving blocks of the bit scrambled video signal and descrambling the blocks of the bit scrambled video signal responsive to a remote computer number of the computer in which the descrambling is occurring. Additional embodiments are described and claimed.


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