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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1994
Leon P Stoel, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
David M Bankers, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Vernon E Hills, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Prentice J Plucker, Chanceller, SD (US);
Christopher A Cinco, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Abstract
A hotel room entertainment system enables video games to be played in each room of a hotel without providing a video game generator in each room. The entertainment system includes at a head end system portion in which the video game audio and video signals are generated and a plurality of guest terminals. Game interrogations are provided to each guest terminal in an active game-playing mode, each game interrogation having a plurality of response positions for guest terminal responses to the interrogation. The game interrogations are interleaved with a series of system interrogations generated at the head end system, enabling the entertainment system to provide video game signals along with other entertainment and services to the guest terminals using a single distribution system.