Thomson Licensing S.a.

Thomson Licensing

Bernard Agasse

Thierry Furet

Christophe Declerck

Hongtao Liao

Claire Frezal-Hugonet

Rui Liang Yang

Jacques Moly

Liang Rui Yang

Christy R Martin

In a digital television system, a receiver/decoder (or 'set-top-box') can download one or more of several applications which can be run by the receiver/decoder to provide interactivity with the user. The applications include: an Internet browser application which uses a PSTN connection to make Internet requests and the television signal path to receive Internet responses; a shopping application operable in an 'impulse' mode and a &#x201c;catalogue&#x201d; mode; a banking application; a quiz application which runs in synchronization with a quiz television programme; a magazine browser application; and a weather or traffic application.

Transmission and reception of television programmes and other data

The present invention provides a digital television system where access rights to a programme or channel are received analyzed by the decoder in determining whether to permit or prohibit full audio and visual access by the user to that programme or channel when displayed in respective windows of a mosaic formation.

Navigation system for a multichannel digital television system

A portal for a communications system that includes a remote terminal connected via a communications network to a broadcast center. The portal includes a display connected to the remote terminal for displaying an arrangement of cells, each cell including a visual object and an underlying application. A user input device enables user inputs to select one of the cells. The portal provides simple and intuitive access to the wide variety of services currently offered, and to be offered in the future, in communications systems.

Portal for a communications system

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Eragny/Oise, France

Bernard Agasse