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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas A Muckle, Fremont, CA (US);
Gregory D Gudorf, Pleasanton, CA (US);
John O Bumgarner, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chaparral Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ; H04H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455-32 ; 455-63 ; 455 121 ; 455 70 ;
Abstract
A satellite broadcast system using an airwave message signal to remotely control a signal receiver. The system includes a system manager to issue a message, a message service to broadcast the message in the airwave message signal, and a signal receiver to select a satellite and a channel of a downlink signal from the satellite carrying a desired program. The program may include audio/video, text, pictures, software, or data. In the preferred embodiment, the message service is a pager service.