Appeal 2007-1712
Application 10/696,395
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of
the evidence.
The Invention
1. Appellants invented a video distribution system that receives a
multiplexed signal representing several different video information streams,
decodes a desired stream or streams, and modulates them onto radio
frequency bands associated with particular individual users (Specification
4:2-12, 5:23-6:18).
2. One of the purposes of Appellants’ invention is to obviate the
need for a set top box located at each television in the user’s house
(Specification 2:14-21).
3. Each individual user selects the television programming that is
to be modulated to the channel associated with that user (for example,
“Dad’s channel” is channel 7, and “Mom’s channel” is channel 8). The user
may then view “his” programming on any television in the house, simply by
tuning to “his” channel (Specification 7:19-28).
4. Appellants’ invention provides the ability to send and display
messages addressed to an individual user (Specification 8:1-5).
5. Appellants’ invention provides the ability to authenticate the
identity of a user desiring to watch a particular channel, such that only the
authorized user may view the television content being modulated to that
channel (Specification 11:13-22).
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