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To: Allen R. Page Jr. who wrote (3310)	7/7/1998 7:50:00 PM
From: fewbucks26	Respond to of 5743

Allen, I thought the 220,000,000 number that Grunberg mentioned was C$ sales, not unit sales, for the next fiscal year, correct? I assume you meant to say that Ingram will not ship until TVL obtains a license from ACRI for Elam technology, not a patent, correct?

To: Allen R. Page Jr. who wrote (3310)	7/7/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: edsam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5743

P98: You are once again making unsupported claims. I have posted the following on Yahoo before but you avoided it. Maybe you would like to respond now? And what critical proprietary technology does Elam have? Since you have yet to respond to the above. Let's examine the 3 main components in the Elam patent. 1) ASCII detector This device is used to detect what ASCII character has been extracted by closed captioning chip (do I need to repeat the bit about CC?). ASCII is industry standard to transmit readable characters. A number is sent to represent a character. The letter 'A' has ASCII value of 65. 'a' is 97. You can check this at a DOS window. Alt-65 will give you capital 'A'. Of course, the number is sent in its binary presentation. 65 is translated into 1000001. Remember the 7 bit + parity encoding method? An eighth bit is added to 1000001 for integrity check. Every PC and Unix boxes in the world use this convention. Does Elam have a lock on ASCII detection? Sorry, the answer is no. 2) Rating decoding gates The Elam patent uses a series of hardwired "AND" and "OR" gates to determine whether to cut off signals. A gate takes in two input signals and output one. It uses the most basic principle in symbolic logic. TRUE "AND" TRUE is TRUE. TRUE "AND" FALSE is FALSE. TRUE "OR" FALSE is TRUE. FALSE "OR" FALSE is FALSE. TRUE is usually represented by 1. 0 is false. A series of these gates can be put together to do simple comparison. But hardwired gates are not compatible with a software solution a la Sony and TVL. Therefore, no license is needed. It must also be noted that PG uses the approach. Yet PG was awarded its own patent. 3) Lamp interface A series of lightbulbs are used to display the rating in effect. Lightbulbs?!? Do you know how ridiculous that would look on my 32" surround sound TV? Lightbulbs are better suited for illumination and X'mas decoration. Will others want to license Elam because of this? I doubt it.