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To: pipick who wrote (3319)	7/8/1998 9:31:00 AM
From: edsam	Read Replies (1) of 5743

> Soundview's approach was the first novel idea patented which the United States FCC adopted. Not quite. FCC mandated the transmission TV program rating information on line 21. Furthermore, a gadget to block signals is to be added to TV's when the incoming ratings exceed the preset acceptable threshold on TV. That's it. No more and no less. Just the bare minimum requirement. You can get more details at www.fcc.gov. Soundview's patent is a electro-mechanical device which blocks signals based on incoming TV rating signals extracted by the closed captioning chip. CC is not part of Elam patent. The Elam patent does not set any convention, protocol or standard. I'll post Elam design document if you are interested. Just barely sufficient to meet the minimum FCC requirement. In fact all four are very similar. They are different in scopes, blocking methods and approaches. Yes, Sony will be much closer to TVL. But so is PG to Elam. PG and Elam share the same blocking technology but have different scopes. They have their own patents. Sony and TVL share the same blocking technology. But TVL can be dynamically configured. Sony does not have this capability (according to the patent design). So I believe Sony and TVL should have different scopes. Using the previous "same-blocking-but-different-scopes" logic, TVL should get its patent. Here's some elementary math: If T > S > P > E then T not= S and T not= E > It appears that V-gis can't be shipped because their are licensing requirements which must be addressed first. That's speculation but I would love to find out more. So who's holding them up? FB26 ... did you get your box yet?

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