U.S. Philips Corporation

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Martin Elixmann

Karin Klabunde

Heribert Baldus

Andras Montvay

Josef Wasel

Steffen Hauptmann

Stephan Abramowski

Ralf Gunther

Ursula Konrads

Axel Kehne

Holger Gappisch

Javier Espina

Karl R Nelleben

Rainer Gallersdorfer

Jochen Fischer

An interactive television application with watch lists is provided. The user may add programs such as television programs, Internet web pages, e-commerce applications, e-mail applications, and music channels, to a watch list. The user may also select a program from the watch list to watch it or to perform some other function related to that program. The interactive television application may display, under user control, watch lists that are overlaid over television programming, scaled so as not to obscure television programming, or on touch-screen remote controls. Programs may be added by the user to the watch lists at any time, or may be automatically added or removed by the interactive television application based on user preference profiles and reminder lists.

Method of controlling the program selection at the receiver of a broadcast medium

A wireless network for monitoring a patient () comprises at least one wearable monitor () including a physiological condition sensor () coupled to the patient () to sense and communicate data related to one physiological function of the patient (). A first body communication unit () interfaces with the at least one wearable monitor () to communicate over the patient () utilizing a near field capacitive body coupled protocol. A relay system () includes a second body communication unit () that receives data from the at least one wearable monitor () and communicates with the first body communication unit () utilizing the near field capacitive body coupled protocol. An external communication unit () communicates the data to a remote medical monitoring station via a cell phone network or the internet.

Wireless network having body coupled communication for mobile patient monitoring

A communication system with a control circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes an operating system for exchanging messages and user software, and a device for exchanging software. For a software component to be exchanged in a few milliseconds, a newly loaded software component, corresponding to a successor component, obtains states and messages from a service port of a stopped software component that is to be replaced, corresponding to a predecessor component. The successor component is restarted with the transferred states and messages.

Communication system capable of exchanging software and restarting with

A communication system comprises a communications network coupled at least to a terminal unit. The communications network is coupled to a service device which comprises a switching center, a controller, and a data bank. The data bank contains at least a service logical program. A terminal unit generates a first parameter and a second parameter for sending as a single transmission to the service device. The controller extracts a service logical program from the data bank in response to the first parameter. The controller further controls the switching center in response to the second parameter based on the extracted service logical program.

Communication system

A communication system having a plurality of service control points which can be mutually coupled and are assigned to at least one service switching point for executing services, a database system, and a service management system for managing the services. To enhance the availability of the database system, this database system comprises distributed databases which have each a database control point. At least several databases are provided for storing copies of logically coherent partitions of the total database. To execute a database operation, a copy of a partition and the database control point that manages that partition are located by reading a Table.

Communication system comprising a distributed database system

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Aachen, Germany

Martin Elixmann