CELL PHONE MUTLIMEDIA BROADCAST SOFTWARE, METHODS AND RECEIVING EQUIPMENT
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Abstract
Preferred embodiments enable cell phone users to plug in a novel SIM card and receive a multimedia broadcast of their choice, television, celebrity broadcast calls, newspapers, games, video and the like, without initializing with a service provider. Adapters can provide additional cell phone communication channels enabling a user to talk on the phone while receiving a broadcast into storage or to quickly receive a broadcast over multiple channels. Cell phone TV flicker can be inhibited by receiving over multiple channels. Each channel can be controlled or activated by its own SIM card. Novel product-specific SIM cards are provided to enable reception of specific broadcasts.
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- 45. A computer-readable medium encoded with control software for controlling the receiving and storing of broadcast information broadcast from a cell phone transmitter to the memory of a user receiving device capable of receiving the broadcast wherein the user receiving device comprises a cell phone, a receiver-enabled personal computer or a cell phone card-enabled personal computer and the broadcast information is selected from the group consisting of news, newspaper data, entertainment data, magazine data, video, sound, music, computer games, computer software, multimedia information, television, books, cartoon animations and a broadcastable digital data information service.
- 80. A method of broadcasting information selected from the group consisting of news, newspaper data, entertainment data, magazine data, video, sound, music, computer games, computer software, multimedia information, television, books, cartoon animations and a broadcastable digital data information service comprising broadcasting the information from a cell phone transmitter to the memory of a user receiving device capable of receiving the broadcast wherein the user receiving device comprises a cell phone, a receiver-enabled personal computer or a cell phone-card-enabled personal computer.
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90. A computer provided with a radio receiver to enable the reception of multimedia digital data broadcast received from a cell phone transmitter network and output of received multimedia data via the computer to a user, the radio receiver optionally being a non-transmitting receiving module for receiving broadcasts from a cell phone transmitter.
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91. A television receiver connected with a radio receiver, the radio receiver enabling the reception of multimedia digital data broadcast transmitted from a cell phone network transmitter wherein the multimedia broadcast can be output to a user via the television receiver.
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92. A television receiver according to claim 92 characterized in that the radio receiver is a cell phone broadcast receiver comprises a non-transmitting broadcast receiving module built into or plugged into the television receiver and, optionally, the broadcast receiving module can be plugged into the antenna input of the television receiver and has a pass-through connection permitting a conventional terrestrial, satellite or cable TV signal to be viewed.
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93. A method of broadcasting a television channel comprising broadcasting the television channel from a cell phone transmitter for viewing on a television receiver employing a cell phone broadcast receiver.
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94. A method of broadcasting television or multimedia data comprising transmitting the multimedia data on a digital radiowave, optionally at FM, Digital Audio Broadcast or television wavelengths, to users equipped with receivers capable of receiving, viewing and playing the multimedia data.
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95. A method of broadcasting multimedia data to cell phone and cell-phone receiver-enabled computer users the method comprising including advertising content in the broadcast multimedia data and providing a free multimedia data broadcast service paid for by the advertising content delivered within the broadcast.
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