H04N 7/162
Authorising the user terminal
Official title: {Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing}
H04N7/162 (Authorising the user terminal) appears on 4,696 US grants and 5,831 published applications in this corpus.
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- System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles1,609US 5,758,257 A1998
- Programmable remote control device for interacting with a plurality of remotely controlled devices1,549US 5,410,326 A1995