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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:
Aug. 23, 2011

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2004
Applicants:

Giovanni Martini, Turin, IT;

Laura Contin, Turin, IT;

Inventors:

Giovanni Martini, Turin, IT;

Laura Contin, Turin, IT;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04N 9/00 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for enabling use of contents by a user of at least one set top box adapted to receive broadcast TV signals, includes: establishing an association between at least one identifier of the user in a communications network, and at least one identifier of the at least one user's set top box; notifying the user via the communications network of the availability of the contents, wherein the notifying includes exploiting the at least one identifier of the user in the communications network; upon receiving a confirmation by the user, delivering the contents to the user's set top box, wherein the delivering includes identifying the at least one user's set top box exploiting the at least one identifier thereof.


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