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To: killybegs who wrote (8968)	6/2/1999 10:54:00 PM
From: DrD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Thanks Jubimer for that website. It was very helpful, in that it allowed me to expand my search and responds quickly to inquiries pertaining specific aspects of the invention. The other website I was using was slow and torturous in its response to those same questions. Also as you pointed out, quite few hits surfaced indicating Ampex patents. Also, I used your recommended website to look in more detail at the patent #5887243. I am even more convinced that Personalized Media (in conjunction with Ampex) is a possibly a good candidate for the streaming commercials. Of course, I could be way off base. Also, my thanks to Thure for supplying the website to Personalized Media. That site seems to supply additional evidence of this grand possiblity, as witness by this excerpt from their webpage. ..Automated Transmission and Insertion of Programming and Advertising Using control signals to automate the transmission, reception and insertion of any type of programming and/or advertising content to computer network servers, local cable systems, broadcast affiliates or other such intermediate stations. For example, in order to avoid lengthy delays in accessing Web sites, popular sites are "broadcast" or "streamed" to multiple intermediate servers. The broadcast stream includes instructions to the servers to receive and store specific Web sites for local user access. In a cable environment, satellites transmit spot commercials to a cable system's headend. The cable system automatically selects its commercials, maintains them in inventory, sets them up on video tape players or servers and inserts them into network transmissions on a scheduled basis. The system also automates the administrative aspects of the local operations...... Thanks again to all. We shall see, what we shall see. DrD