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- From: alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov (Bill Alexander)
- Subject: VIScorp Patents in your library?(long)
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- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:58:47 GMT
-
- Well I have high hopes for the Amiga again under VIScorp but got tired of
- waiting for any real info. It has been easy skipping reading through all of
- the speculative postings during the past week. After reading on VIScorp's
- web pages that they have received some patents on their set-top device (ED)
- I searched recent patents (US) with their description of ED.
- Shadow Patent Office:
- http://www.spo.eds.com/spo/open/home.html
- Results:
- Your request was:
-
- Product Code:
- E081
- Keyword list:
- set-top device
- Report name:
- viscorp
- Text:
- set-top device, ED, integrates the television and telephone,
- providing a gateway for every household to enter into the age of on-line
- interactive services at an affordable price and in a user
- friendly
- environment
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- E081 SUBJECT SEARCH LIST REPORT - 1993 to PRESENT
- DATA
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- Top 3 Classes:
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- Class: 379/96 Frequency: 5
- Class: 379/67 Frequency: 4
- Class: 379/58 Frequency: 2
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- Top closest patents:
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- Ref Patent Id Issue/File Class Title
- ---- --------- ----------- ------------ -----------------------------------
- 1 5,461,666 Oct 24 1995 379/67 System and method for configuring a
- Aug 11 1994 telephone
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- 2 5,402,477 Mar 28 1995 379/201 System and method for configuring a
- Jul 31 1992 telephone
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- 3 5,481,542 Jan 2 1996 370/94.2 Interactive information services
- Nov 10 1993 control system
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- 4 5,396,547 Mar 7 1995 379/96 Arrangement for entering
- Apr 13 1993 information into a directory on a
- telephone terminal
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- 5 5,236,199 Aug 17 1993 273/439 Interactive media system and
- Jun 13 1991 telecomputing method using
- telephone keypad signalling
- Status: certificate of correction has been issued
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- 6 5,483,586 Jan 9 1996 379/201 Electronic on-line subscriber
- Jul 18 1994 telephone directory
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- 7 Re. 34,340 Aug 10 1993 348/12 Closed circuit television system
- Apr 16 1992 having seamless interactive
- television programming and
- expandable user participation
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- 8 5,404,393 Apr 4 1995 379/96 Method and apparatus for
- Sep 28 1992 interactive television through use
- of menu windows
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- 9 5,237,605 Aug 17 1993 379/399 Adjunct interface apparatus for a
- Dec 24 1990 telephone set
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- 10 5,309,509 May 3 1994 379/165 Graphical user interface
- Jul 27 1992 workstation
- Status: certificate of correction has been issued
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- 11 5,504,519 Apr 2 1996 348/7 Method and apparatus for printing
- Jul 2 1993 coupons and the like
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- 12 5,329,577 Jul 12 1994 379/58 Telephone having touch sensor for
- Dec 29 1992 responding to a call
- Status: certificate of correction has been issued
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- 13 5,450,475 Sep 12 1995 379/67 Method for controlling electronic
- Mar 17 1994 telephone switches
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- 14 5,396,546 Mar 7 1995 379/96 Apparatus and method for automatic
- Oct 3 1991 and user configurable information
- appliance
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- 15 5,355,480 Oct 11 1994 395/600 Storage control method and
- Oct 13 1992 apparatus for an interactive
- television terminal
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- 16 5,253,067 Oct 12 1993 348/570 Channel labeling apparatus for a
- Dec 16 1991 television receiver wherein
- graphics and text labels may be
- selected from a preprogrammed list
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- 17 5,345,226 Sep 6 1994 340/825.19 Environmental control system for
- Jun 20 1990 the handicapped
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- 18 5,461,667 Oct 24 1995 379/96 Apparatus and method for electronic
- Aug 1 1994 device for information services
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- 19 5,386,460 Jan 31 1995 379/96 Feature configurable telephone
- Jan 4 1993 terminal
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- 20 5,457,735 Oct 10 1995 379/58 Method and apparatus for queuing
- Feb 1 1994 radio telephone service requests
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- 21 5,394,466 Feb 28 1995 379/399 Combination telephone network
- Feb 16 1993 interface and cable television
- apparatus and cable television
- module
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- 22 5,410,367 Apr 25 1995 348/725 Television program scheduler for
- Feb 23 1994 providing an indication to a user
- that a television program is about
- to start
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- 23 5,325,422 Jun 28 1994 379/67 PBX telephone call control system
- Nov 10 1993
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- 24 5,353,335 Oct 4 1994 379/67 Multilingual prepaid telephone
- Aug 3 1992 system
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- 25 5,420,640 May 30 1995 348/525 Memory efficient method and
- Dec 3 1993 apparatus for sync detection
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- Maybe number 3 is the ED? Who can help out here? The real search to do is
- to search using the inventors name: Roger Remillard or the assignee:
- VIScorp. Can anyone do these searches from their computer(I can't do this
- from here :-(. I would love to see the full patents on-line. You could
- also take the list above to a library that carries US Patents and look up a
- few of the above patents. I know The University of Maryland (College Park,
- Maryland, USA) carries them all and the US Patent Office in Crystal City,
- Virginia also has free access. Libraries around the world also carry all
- patents with free access. Other pay-per-search companies (Derwent World
- Patents and others) would allow you to run the proper searches.
-
- Thanks to all who gave me pointers to upgrading my A2000 for the WWW.
- Regards,
-
- Bill Alexander
- alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov
-
- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
-