Quinews-electronic replacement for the newspaper
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1. A system for distributing news, said system including a transmitter and a set of receivers;
- said transmitter constituting means for transmitting a signal on which encoded pages of news are modulated;
each of said encoded-pages comprising a sequence of encoded-rows, each of said encoded rows comprising a sequence of encoded-characters, and each of said encoded pages bearing a respective set of encoded characters constituting a page-address, said page address specifying where in receiver memory said encoded page is to be stored;
each of said receivers including a signal-receptor, a receiver-processor, a receiver-memory, a receiver-programmer modified in accordance with a receiver-program, a user-input-device, and a receiver-display;
said signal receptor constituting means for receiving said modulated-signal, extracting said encoded-pages therefrom, and delivering said encoded-pages to said receiver-processor;
said receiver-program including a receiver-routine for causing said receiver-processor to obtain from each of said encoded-pages the respective page-address of said encoded page and store said encoded-page at that location in said receiver-memory specified by said respective page-address;
said user-input-device constituting means for transmitting commands from a user to said receiver-processor, a set of said commands being page-select commands, each of said page-select commands specifying a selected encoded-page in said receiver-memory;
said receiver-program including a video routine for causing said receiver-processor in response to each of said page-select commands to move said selected encoded page from said receiver-memory to said receiver-display; and
said receiver-display constituting means for displaying in readable form a display-page containing the information of said selected encoded page.
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Abstract
A system for replacing the newspaper. A radio transmitter transmits the news as "pages" of code. The transmission is received in the home and the encoded pages stored in computer memory. The user selects pages from this memory for viewing on a monitor. That which is new is the storage of the entire news of a moment in mass memory in the home, permitting the user to select directly from this memory the material which he desires to read.
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1. A system for distributing news, said system including a transmitter and a set of receivers;
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said transmitter constituting means for transmitting a signal on which encoded pages of news are modulated; each of said encoded-pages comprising a sequence of encoded-rows, each of said encoded rows comprising a sequence of encoded-characters, and each of said encoded pages bearing a respective set of encoded characters constituting a page-address, said page address specifying where in receiver memory said encoded page is to be stored; each of said receivers including a signal-receptor, a receiver-processor, a receiver-memory, a receiver-programmer modified in accordance with a receiver-program, a user-input-device, and a receiver-display; said signal receptor constituting means for receiving said modulated-signal, extracting said encoded-pages therefrom, and delivering said encoded-pages to said receiver-processor; said receiver-program including a receiver-routine for causing said receiver-processor to obtain from each of said encoded-pages the respective page-address of said encoded page and store said encoded-page at that location in said receiver-memory specified by said respective page-address; said user-input-device constituting means for transmitting commands from a user to said receiver-processor, a set of said commands being page-select commands, each of said page-select commands specifying a selected encoded-page in said receiver-memory; said receiver-program including a video routine for causing said receiver-processor in response to each of said page-select commands to move said selected encoded page from said receiver-memory to said receiver-display; and said receiver-display constituting means for displaying in readable form a display-page containing the information of said selected encoded page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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