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A system for controlling access to, service transmission from, and use of an information transmission network which provides an end-user with at will access to the broadband/narrowband service networks deployed in the cable television industry, telephone industry, the multi-media information/service

A system for controlling access to, service transmission from, and use of an information transmission network which provides an end-user with at will access to the broadband/narrowband service networks deployed in the cable television industry, telephone industry, the multi-media information/services network technology, and the video dial tone industry. Allows the end-user to control the type of services to which such end-user has access to. Network service providers have the ability to provide targeted commercials. Independent interfaced subsystems are combined to yield the network services access system.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A broadband communications network services access platform host that receives, transmits, processes, and stores information signals at the headend of a transmission network having elements including down-line network service access platforms, the transmission network carrying broad

[ I claim:] [1.] A broadband communications network services access platform host that receives, transmits, processes, and stores information signals at the headend of a transmission network having elements including down-line network service access platforms, the transmission network carrying broadband optical and/or electrical signals which include control signals, and which represent voice information, digital and analog data information including customer billing information, and imagery information including video, the broadband communications network services access platform host comprising:a. a means for storing information, such information including a host operating system;b. a central processing unit-based broadband information network access controller, responsive to the operating system stored within the means for storing information, for controlling the transmission and receipt of digital information and control signals;c. a receiving means, responsive to the network access controller, for receiving customer billing information from the network services access platforms; andd. a communication means, responsive to the network access controller, for communicating with at least one network services access platform in the transmission network, the communication means output to the network services access platform including operating and application program data for the network services access platforms.