Presentation system for messages that provide information on demand and transmitter station and receiver station for use in such presentation system

• US 5,524,271 A
• Filed: 03/07/1995
• Issued: 06/04/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Holzscherer, Constantijn D., Hollmann, Hendrik D. L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H.
• Application Number:
  US08/400,404
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.1, 455/6.1, 455/6.2, 455/185.1, 455/186.1, 348/6, 348/7, 348/17, 370/94.1, 370/94.2
• US Class Current: 725/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0882 for the transmission of character code signals, e.g. for teletext circuits for the digital non-picture data signal H04N7/035

Abstract

In a presentation system a transmitter station transmits messages that provide information on demand. Such message is divided into parts. An earlier part of the message is presented more often than at least one later part of the messages. In particular, the presentation pattern is such that upon accessing the message'"'"'s firts parts all other parts can be contiguously accessed according to a standard presentation velocity as from a time instant that is within a prespecified distance in time from the start of accessing said first part. In particular, the distance may be zero.

Claims

1. A method of displaying data on a receiver, said method comprising the steps of:

dividing the data into a plurality of parts, each part having a sequence identification; and

recurrently transmitting the plurality of parts to the receiver for display, wherein the average recurrency is substantially a monotonously non-increasing function of the sequence identification of the plurality of the parts.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of recurrently transmitting includes transmitting more than one part of the data sequence during a single period.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of recurrently transmitting includes transmitting three parts of the data sequence during a single period.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes audio information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes video information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes computer data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is transmitted to the receiver in one of time-division multiplex organization and frequency-division multiplex organization.

2. A method of displaying data on a receiver, said method comprising:

dividing the data into a plurality of parts, each part having a sequence identification; and

recurrently transmitting the plurality of parts to the receiver for display, wherein the average recurrency is substantially a monotonously non-increasing function of the sequence identification of the plurality of the parts and wherein at least one part having a predetermined sequence identification number greater than a predetermined value is transmitted in a non-periodic manner and wherein at all parts of the data having sequence identification numbers less than the predetermined value are transmitted in a periodic manner.