Interactive system for processing viewer responses to television

Details Interactive system for processing viewer responses to television Interactive system for processing viewer responses to television

1993-04-16

1995-08-01

Groody, James J.

Television

Special applications

Manufacturing

348 13, 455 2, 455 51, H04N 7173

Patent

active

054383552

ABSTRACT:
An interactive television system includes a central exchange and a plurality of consoles variously located at residences of viewers of TV programming. Each console includes a code reader capable of reading program codes, which are broadcasted with the TV signals of programs as unique identifiers thereof. A viewer, upon seeing a TV program of interest, actuates a button, and the console transmits to the central exchange an uniquely identifying console code together with the program code currently being read by the code reader. The central exchange then initiates a facsimile transmission or a datafile transmission of program data, retrieved from a database and associated with the received program code, to the console identified by the received console code.

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