Interactive video distribution systems – Access control or blocking – Of specific program
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-02
2011-08-02
Vu, Ngoc (Department: 2421)
Interactive video distribution systems
Access control or blocking
Of specific program
C725S027000, C725S038000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07992164
ABSTRACT:
A microcomputer18obtains a variable RRT from a broadcast signal and stores, in a recording medium, the variable RRT in association with a physical channel; sets a viewing restriction flag for an item in the variable RRT based on an operation input from a user; applies viewing restriction to the broadcast signal when rating information indicates the level at which the viewing restriction flag has been set in the variable RRT; and, when a logical channel is not associated with the selected physical channel, tunes, as an alternative channel, a physical channel with which a logical channel has been associated in the channel map of the other tuner, and associates a variable RRT associated with the alternative channel, with the selected physical channel.
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Funai Electric Co. Ltd.
Vu Ngoc
Yokoi Toshiyuki
Yokoi & Co. U.S.A., Inc.
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