Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Remote data accessing – Accessing a remote server
Patent
1997-05-07
1999-12-14
Meky, Moustafa M.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Remote data accessing
Accessing a remote server
709246, G06F 1300
Patent
active
060030739
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a method and a system for initiating an action controlled by a prestored programme in one or more computer installations by communication of control information message from a control information generator in a server installation remote from said one or more computer installations.
From television entertainment it is known to provide for interactive viewer participation in performance of a video game forming part of a broadcast television programme. One example is a video game in which an animated cartoon figure is guided through a labyrinth by instructions from a viewer using his standard push button telephone set, whereby operations of specific digit keys of the telephone set keyboard causes the cartoon figure to move in specific predetermined ways through the labyrinth such as moving forwards, to the right or left or circumventing obstructions.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,189,630 discloses a method for encoding and broadcasting information about live events using computer pattern matching techniques, by which a live event may be broadcast with a combination signal including a computer coded description of subevents constituting the event and an audio or video signal. In a viewer's computer an indication is thereby provided to the viewer of the occurrence of subevents of interest and the viewer of the event is allowed to search for such subevents in a recording of the event. In a specific embodiment of this method the encoded description of the event may include status information in its representation of subevents and be combined with other signals such as an audio signal or a video signal to produce a combined signal which is transmitted to a viewer with a computer.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
As will appear from the following description the method and system according to the invention have numerous applications, but in broad terms it is a main object of the invention to enable control of one or more computer installations by transmission of a control information signal sequence of a relatively short duration as part of an audio and/or video information carrying signal to initiate certain actions controlled by one or more prestored programmes in such computer installations.
By an audio and/or video information carrying signal is in this context understood an analog audio and/or video signal generated and transmitted by conventional means as well as audio and/or video information converted into and transmitted as digital signals.
In accordance with the above main object the invention provides in its broadest aspect a method for initiating an action controlled by a prestored programme in one or more computer installations by communication of a control information message from a control information generator in a server installation remote from said one or more computer installations, comprising the steps of generator as a message of alpha-numeric information, duration, beginning an end of said signal sequence, signals into an overall audio or video information carrying signal comprising signal parts from other signal sources than said control information generator, installations, computer installations, information, and installations, said action being of a duration substantially longer than said relatively short duration.
In a relatively simple preferred embodiment the control information signal sequence may comprise a series of audio signals representing individual characters (letters, digits) of said message of alpha-numeric information, and said start and end indicator signals are audio signal distinct from said character representing signals.
The overall audio or video signal into which the audio signal containing the control information is incorporated may typically form part of a broadcast radio or television signal. The control information communicated in this way may be used by any member of the listening or viewing public having access to a personal computer equipped with means to retrieve and use the control information, including a computer progra
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