Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1997-09-24
2000-10-17
Stamber, Eric W.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705 1, G06F 1900
Patent
active
061345318
ABSTRACT:
A computerized method enables an audience to synchronously interact with a broadcast program in realtime. A broadcast clock of a broadcast system is synchronized to a standard time. A server clock of a server computer is synchronized to the standard time using a network timing protocol. A client computer clock of a client computer is synchronized to the server clock. The program is broadcast synchronously to the broadcast clock. Web pages are provided by the server computer to the client computer. Responses generated by the client computer are time-stamped according to the synchronized time of the client computer so that the responses can be time-correlated to segments of the program.
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Gould Edward M.
Jefferson David R.
Stata Raymond Paul
Trewitt Glenn
Caudle Penny
Digital Equipment Corporation
Stamber Eric W.
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