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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2002
Nobukazu Kurauchi, Nagoya, JP;
Nobukazu Kurauchi, Nagoya, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A pay-program transmission/reception system provides a pay program at low viewing fee by inserting CMs. A viewer who wants a program without CMs does not newly receive a CM-deleted program. A CM data management apparatus transmits, to a pay-program reception terminal, (a) a CM-inserted program constituted from video/audio and CM data, and (b) a CM-inserted program schedule showing reproduction orders thereof, when receiving a program request by a program name designated in the pay-program reception terminal. The pay-program reception terminal, when its input reception unit receives the CM deletion request from the viewer after its video/audio processing unit reproduces the CM-inserted program, passes the request to the CM data management apparatus, obtains a CM-deleted program schedule, and reproduces the pay program without CMs.