Aggregate information production and display system

• US 20020194364A1
• Filed: 08/12/2002
• Published: 12/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Inventors: Chase, Timothy, Gobin, Don
• Application Number:
  US10/217,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20020194364A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/236
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18578 Satellite systems for providing broadband data service to individual earth stations for selecting H04W; provisions for broadband connection, H04Q11/0478
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/90 specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/95 for local area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A production system for packaging aggregates of mixed media information (e.g. text, images, audio, and video) into addressable packets which are transmitted to receivers over a satellite network, with the information aggregates (IA'"'"'s) displayed and arranged for use via an associated Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file, or other such displays language file and associated interpreter. The HTML file, when interpreted and displayed, would provide an organized and easy to access presentation of the mixed-media files transmitted over the satellite network, whereby textual and graphic descriptions could be used to describe the file contends and HTML buttons would allow playback and/or viewing of the linked file information. The HTML file might also include a link to communications software for enabling data dialog with a site external to the receiving station. One example link would include software for a telephone connection. This connection could direct the transmission source station to send more information, as needed. Still other links would allow software stored locally at the receiving station to be accessed and used. A link might also be provided via the internet to external URL addresses. The IA groups and packets would also be useful for distributed, distant teaching systems, with feedback from the receiving sites provided through the communications link to the source station.

Claims

1. A media distribution network comprising:

a producer station for transmitting an envelope of data, the envelope of data including a plurality of media files selected from the group consisting of an audio file, a text file, and a video file, the envelope of data further including a mark-up language document having a plurality of tags each respectively associated with at least one of the plurality of media files;

a satellite for broadcasting the envelope;

a plurality of receiving stations receiving the envelope from the satellite, each of the receiving stations locally storing the data of the envelope in a respective local storage medium, each of the plurality of receiving stations including means for accessing the mark-up language document, the mark-up language document providing means for accessing selective ones of the plurality of media files via the plurality of tags.

2. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one audio file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one audio file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the audio file.

3. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one video file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one video file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the video file.

4. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mark-up language document is formatted as an HTML document.

5. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for accessing a telephone link.

6. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 5 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for requesting a further mark-up language document over the telephone link.

7. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to indicia describing content of the one or more media files.

8. A media distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to a company logo.

9. A transmitter for use in transmitting an envelope of data to a receiving station for local storage by the receiving station, the transmitter comprising:

a computer system storing the envelope of data, the envelope of data including a plurality of media files selected from the group consisting of an audio file, a text file, and a video file, the envelope of data further including a mark-up language document having a plurality of tags each respectively associated with at least one of the plurality of media files;

an RF transmitter for modulating the envelope of data for RF transmission.

10. A transmitter as claimed in claim 9 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one audio file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one audio file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the audio file.

11. A transmitter as claimed in claim 9 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one video file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one video file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the video file.

12. A transmitter as claimed in claim 9 wherein the mark-up language document is formatted as an HTML document.

13. A transmitter as claimed in claim 9 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for accessing a telephone link.

14. A transmitter as claimed in claim 13 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for requesting a further mark-up language document over the telephone link.

15. A transmitter as claimed in claim 9 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to indicia describing content of the one or more media files.

16. A transmitter as claimed in claim 9 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to a company logo.

18. A receiver as claimed in claim 17 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one audio file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one audio file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the audio file.

19. A receiver as claimed in claim 17 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one video file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one video file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the video file.

20. A receiver as claimed in claim 17 wherein the mark-up language document is formatted as an HTML document.

21. A receiver as claimed in claim 17 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for accessing a telephone link.

22. A receiver as claimed in claim 21 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for requesting a further mark-up language document over the telephone link.

23. A receiver as claimed in claim 21 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to indicia describing content of the one or more media files.

24. A receiver as claimed in claim 21 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to a company logo.

26. A data transmission as claimed in claim 25 wherein the mark-up language document is formatted as an HTML document.

27. A data transmission as claimed in claim 26 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for accessing a telephone link.

28. A data transmission as claimed in claim 27 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for requesting a further mark-up language document over the telephone link.

29. A data transmission as claimed in claim 25 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to indicia describing content of the one or more media files.

30. A data transmission as claimed in claim 25 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to a company logo.

17. A receiver for receiving an envelope of data that has been modulated to RF, the receiver comprising:

a demodulator for demodulating the envelope of data;

a computer system locally storing the envelope of data, the envelope of data including a plurality of media files selected from the group consisting of an audio file, a text file, and a video file, the envelope of data further including a mark-up language document having a plurality of tags each respectively associated with at least one of the plurality of media files, the computer system being operable to access the plurality of media files via the plurality of tags of the mark-up language document.

25. A data transmission comprising:

a plurality of RF modulated data elements, the plurality of RF modulated data elements including

a plurality of media files selected from the group consisting of an audio file, a text file, and a video file, and

a mark-up language document having a plurality of tags each respectively associated with at least one of the plurality of media files.

31. A media distribution system comprising:

a producer station for transmitting an envelope of data, the envelope of data including a plurality of media files selected from the group consisting of an audio file, a text file, and a video file, the envelope of data further including a mark-up language document having a plurality of tags each respectively associated with at least one of the plurality of media files;

a receiving station receiving the envelope, the receiving station locally storing the data of the envelope in a respective local storage medium, the receiving station including means for accessing the mark-up language document, the mark-up language document providing means for accessing selective ones of the plurality of media files via the plurality of tags.

32. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 31 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one audio file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one audio file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the audio file.

33. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 31 wherein the plurality of media files comprises at least one video file and the plurality of tags comprises at least one tag associated with the at least one video file, activation of the tag resulting in audio play of the video file.

34. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 31 wherein the mark-up language document is formatted as an HTML document.

35. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 31 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for accessing a telephone link.

36. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 35 wherein the mark-up language document further comprises a tag for requesting a further mark-up language document over the telephone link.

37. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 31 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to indicia describing content of the one or more media files.

38. A media distribution system as claimed in claim 31 wherein the mark-up language document itself includes or includes a tag to a company logo.