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Quinews-electronic replacement for the newspaper

  • US 4,740,912 A
  • Filed: 11/28/1986
  • Issued: 04/26/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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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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