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Method and device for distributing video information

  • US 20060212912A1
  • Filed: 01/21/2004
  • Published: 09/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. Method for distribution of video information over single or multiple distribution networks, in particular TV-networks, where secondary programs of commercial character are sent parallel to, or in between, a series of main programs, where each program is supplied with a program code (PID-code) at a central location, said code contains information about the identity or character of the program, as the basis for a selection of programs that will be presented to a recipient, characterized in that in each receiver, one or more criteria for the selection of secondary programs are stored, as the selection criteria, or selection codes, are generated as a result of the viewer'"'"'s reaction to a corresponding number of questions, which are presented on the viewer'"'"'s screen on the basis of a program that is sent out from a central control unit (24), so that the selection criteria are stored in a separate receiver, and there only, as the questions regard demographic circumstances and/or interests of the TV-viewer.

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