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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
May. 12, 1994
Bernardus H Vaske, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Transmitter station for transmitting a plurality of television programs, and receiver for receiving the programs. Transmitter station for transmitting, and receiver for receiving a plurality of television programs via respective transmission channels. A teletext page with tuning data which are representative of the transmission channels used by the transmitter station is transmitted by means of one of the programs, for example a local television program. An installation procedure of downloading the tuning data comprises the search of the local television program. In order to accelerate the procedure, the page header of its teletext pages includes a code (.about.) indicating that the tuning data are incorporated in said television program.