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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2009
Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, TX (US);
David Kent Mathews, Carrollton, TX (US);
Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, TX (US);
David Kent Mathews, Carrollton, TX (US);
RPX LV-Acquisition LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository () is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and times. An at-home subscriber, capable of receiving with a receiver () the one or more select channels, switches to the one or more channels carrying the software distribution with a channel selector (). The subscriber, having programmed a controller () with a programmer () for the date, time, software ID, and channel of the software broadcast, then downloads the software package to a storage device () for ultimate transfer to a PC (). A validation and accounting system () then records the software download transaction and transmits this information over a PSTN () to a provider accounting system () such that the subscriber is billed for the software package which was downloaded.