Security Considerations for Impulse Pay-Per-View Systems (1987)
By Vito Brugliera, Richard Citta, Zenith Electronics Corp.
Renewed interest in Pay-per-View applications has produced a variety of technologies for implementing Impulse Pay-per-View. Among these technologies is use of store and forward methods with addressable home terminals. There are obvious advantages to store and forward because it allows instant self-authorization of the PPV subscriber addressable home terminal, while permitting slow data communication and retrieval of the PPV buy data, thus avoiding some transaction handling problems with conventional system controllers and billing systems.
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