how-to block ads
|
|
Uniqs:
112 |
Share Topic
 |
 |
|
|
| They patented TCP/IP!!! From the patent abstract:
A method for providing integrated voice, video, and data content in an integrated service offering to one or more customer premises includes receiving television programming from a programming source, receiving data from a data network, and receiving telephone communications from a telephone network. The method further includes placing the television programming, data, and telephone communications in a common format for integrated communication over a single network infrastructure using a common communication protocol. In addition, the method includes communicating the integrated television programming, data, and telephone communications in the common format over the single network infrastructure using the common communication protocol to one or more customer premises to provide the integrated service offering. *Emphasis mine*
So... if someone uses TCP/IP to distribute video, voice, and data over the same network, they have violated the patent?
What an absolute load of absolute crap. | |
| Forget the abstract, it is the claim which says what is patented, in this case:
"...assigning customer premises to multicast domains to support conditional access of the customer premises to content that is selected . . . , wherein the conditional access is implemented using interdiction."
I don't know what they mean by interdiction, so maybe someone here can explain it? | | |
|
| SD6 one good turn deserves another...
quote:
...assigning customer premises to multicast domains to support conditional access of the customer premises to content that is selected . . . ,
Multicast domains are a method of assiging client's to subnetworks (which can be widely distribuited) and then broadcasting to the network address for each subnetwork that which you wish to distribute to all members of the subnetwork.
quote:
wherein the conditional access is implemented using interdiction."
Interdiction is inserting something between a source and a destination which controls what is visible at the destination. In the military world, or law enforcement world, interdiction is akin to intercepting. One performs interdiction if they intercept a smuggler crossing a border and stop him.
In this case they must mean that there is some means in a router they produce which can turn on or off a data stream to a client inside that router.
 | |
|
