Virtual personal channel in a television system

Details Virtual personal channel in a television system Virtual personal channel in a television system

1994-11-02

1996-07-09

Kostak, Victor R.

Television

Special applications

Manufacturing

348 2, 348 6, 348 10, H04N 703

Patent

active

055349110

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for providing a customer of a television system with virtual personal channel which being selected delivers a television program of the most personal interest no matter on which channel and at what time the program is physically transmitted. Descriptive and time/channel data of scheduled TV programs are broadcasted through a communication medium from the system headend to customer terminal prior to transmission of programs themselves. In customer terminal all scheduled TV programs are evaluated by a computer that stores customer profile data and controls customer video receiver and video recorder. Whenever customer selects personal channel the computer switches the video receiver to a physical channel on which a program having the best evaluation is transmitted. The best program of the day or the week is recorded and can also be presented as current program of personal channel.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5047867 (1991-09-01), Strubbe
patent: 5075771 (1991-12-01), Hashimoto
patent: 5223924 (1993-06-01), Strubbe
patent: 5410344 (1995-04-01), Graves et al.
patent: 5444499 (1995-08-01), Saitoh

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