A SET-TOP BOX WITH AN INTERNET BIOS FOR INTERNET ACCESS

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EP 0 877 980 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	18.11.1998 Bulletin 1998/47

(21)	Application number: 97904131.0

(22)	Date of filing: 31.01.1997

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

G06F 15/ 00^{( . )}
G06F 13/ 00^{( . )}
H04N 5/ 00^{( . )}
H04N 5/ 445^{( . )}
H04N 7/ 16^{( . )}

G06F 9/ 445^{( . )}
H04L 29/ 06^{( . )}
H04N 5/ 44^{( . )}
H04N 5/ 765^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US1997/001554

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1997/028499 (07.08.1997 Gazette 1997/34)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB

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Priority:

02.02.1996 US 19960594638

(71)	Applicant: AWARD SOFTWARE INT., INC.
	Mountain View, CA 94043-4023 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	BIZZARRI, Maurice, W. Palo Alto, CA 94036 (US)

(74)	Representative: Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
	Reginald W. Barker & Co., Chancery House, 53-64, Chancery Lane London, WC2A 1QU London, WC2A 1QU (GB)

(54)	A SET-TOP BOX WITH AN INTERNET BIOS FOR INTERNET ACCESS