Television event marking system

Details Television event marking system Television event marking system

1996-10-16

1999-05-25

Grant, Chris

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Display driving control circuitry

Controlling the condition of display elements

348 10, 348734, 455 62, H04N 716

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059073225

ABSTRACT:
A system for bookmarking viewer selected TV broadcast events and displaying a set of associated internet locations or website hotlinks, comprising the selection of a set of broadcast events using a remote control, and storing a set of event-identifier data associated with the set of selected broadcast events in an activity table, and then generating a set of associated internet locations or website hotlinks by comparing the set of event identifiers with a database of TV schedules, events and company information. The generated set of associated internet locations or website hotlinks can then be used by viewer for access to and display of the selected internet locations associated with the set of selected broadcast events.

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"Joining Television and the Internet Using Java", Internet Week, pp. 1-2, Apr. 1, 1996.

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