Patent · US Expired

Interactive television security through transaction time stamping

US5764275A · kind A · utility

270Cited by
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14Claims
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Filing dateJun 7, 1995
Grant dateJun 9, 1998
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04H60/33
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for providing security on an interactive television system. Two sets of interactive data, with time stamps, are separately sent to a remote location. At the remote location, the time stamps are checked against a remote clock, a time difference being noted for both sets of data. The two time differences are compared to determine if one set of data has been delayed as compared to the other. Non-delayed data can be used to update a game score for an interactive game. After the game is completed, the remote clock is compared to a central clock. the difference between the two clocks are compared to the time difference for non-delayed data to determine whether the entire aggregate of interactive data was delayed.

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