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Scheduling policies with grouping for providing VCR control functions in a video server

EP 0673159 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed March 13, 1995 and granted September 9, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 2015.
  • 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 September 13, 2020.
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FiledMarch 13, 1995
PublishedSeptember 20, 1995
GrantedSeptember 9, 1998
Term endedMarch 13, 2015
Application numberEP 95103584
Classification (CPC)H04N7/17318 +2 more

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1996199820002002200420062008201020122014Application filedMarch 13, 1995PublishedSep 20, 1995Patent grantedSep 9, 1998Term endedMarch 13, 2015

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