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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 service access platform that receives, transmits and processes service information signals between the head-end and back-end of a transmission network, and functions as the primary interface between the end user at the back-end, and the network com

[ I claim:] [1.] A broadband communications network service access platform that receives, transmits and processes service information signals between the head-end and back-end of a transmission network, and functions as the primary interface between the end user at the back-end, and the network comprising:a. a means for storing information, such information including an operating system;b. a central processing unit, responsive to said operating system;c. a network interface means interfacing to both the network and the remainder of the network service access platform;d. a signal processing means, responsive to said central processing unit, for processing signals in both directions along the network, including a means for encoding and decoding signals, and a means for accepting commands from an end-user at the network back-end, such commands enabling signal processing for connection to network service;e. a communication means, responsive to said central processing unit, for transmitting and receiving information, the transmission including receipt of customer-specific information internal to the network service access platform and translation of such information into a network signal format, and the reception including receipt of addressed information and translation of such information from network signal format into the format used in the network service access platform; andf. a customer interface means interfacing to both the customer premises and the remainder of the network service access platform.