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Method and apparatus for variable playback speed of multimedia data interchange within a data processing system

EP 0508928 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed February 26, 1992 and granted October 31, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 26, 2012.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by August 26, 2017.
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FiledFebruary 26, 1992
PublishedOctober 14, 1992
GrantedOctober 31, 2001
Term endedFebruary 26, 2012
Application numberEP 92480028
Classification (CPC)H04L9/40

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