Wireless information transfer and interactive television system

    公开(公告)号:GB2342819A

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-19

    申请号:GB9918812

    申请日:1999-08-11

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: An interactive television system both sends and receives data via a wireless communication link between first and second communication units. The first communication unit, which may take the form of a set top box, receives and generates signals including, messages, e-mail, graphics, video and audio for display on a television set. A keyboard may be associated with the first communication unit to allow information to be entered and modified. A second communication unit transmits data stored on an associated server in response to requests received from the first communication unit. The wireless communication link may be via a satellite.

    Wireless information transfer and interactive television system

    公开(公告)号:GB2342819B

    公开(公告)日:2003-07-16

    申请号:GB9918812

    申请日:1999-08-11

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A system and method for controlling an interactive media system includes generating, by a first communication system, an information signal and a display signal for display by an electronic medium, transferring the information signal by a wireless signal transfer network, receiving and processing the information signal by a server, providing, by the server, data included in the information signal to a functional network, wherein the server retrieves return data from the functional network and provides the return data to a second communication system, generating, by the second communication system, a return information signal and providing the return information signal to the wireless signal transfer network, and transferring, by the wireless signal transfer network, the return information signal to the first communication system, which generates the display signal for display on the electronic medium.

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