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Article: COMPTON'S NEWMEDIA RECEIVES PATENT FOR MULTIMEDIA INVENTION; LAUNCH TIERED LICENSING PROGRAM BASED ON TECHNOLOGY, DISTRIBUTION
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- PR Newswire
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- November 15, 1993
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Compton's NewMedia, a leading publisher, developer and distributor of multimedia titles, today announced that they were granted United States Patent Number 5,241,671. The patent identifies Compton's NewMedia as the owner of the:
"Multimedia search system using a plurality of entry path means which indicate interrelatedness of information."
An abstract in the patent document further describes the invention as:
"A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user-friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is ...