Patent ID: 6126546
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A home subscriber data bank and retrieval apparatus, comprising:(a) circuitry for enabling a subscriber to select specific computer data which is broadcast over a public broadcast medium, said subscriber having a host computer;(b) a data receiver for receiving said selected computer data from said public broadcast medium;(c) data selection circuitry for accepting selected computer data and distinguishing and rejecting other computer data received by said data receiver and currently being broadcast over said public broadcast medium;(d) said home rental data bank and retrieval apparatus being physically located at the location of subscriber's host computer;(e) circuitry independent of said host computer for preventing unauthorized access to said broadcast computer data;(f) a storage medium;(g) circuitry for routing said selected computer data to said storage medium; and(h) an interface allowing passage of said computer data between from data receiver to said subscriber's host computer.