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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
May. 11, 2000
Applicant:
Richard Andrew Kydd, Middlesex, GB;
Inventor:
Richard Andrew Kydd, Middlesex, GB;
Assignee:
Two Way Media Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An interactive television broadcast system comprises a source for broadcasting a plurality of television channels and data. A plurality of remote receiving units, each include a tuner to enable the unit to be tuned to receive a selected TV channel broadcast by the source, a processor responsive to data received from the source to determine the channel to which the unit is tuned, and a transmitter for sending information relating to the channel to which the unit is tuned to a common data collector.