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Automated consumer response to publicly broadcast information

  • US 5,991,737 A
  • Filed: 03/11/1996
  • Issued: 11/23/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for transmitting an order to an order processor of an automated system, which independently identifies a content of a publicly broadcast information by performing a pattern recognition search, at the initiatives of a consumer upon receipt by said consumer of publicly broadcast information of interest to said consumer, comprising:

  • providing a consumer transmitter unit which interacts with the automated system, the unit comprising a tuning mechanism and a transmitting and receiving mechanism operatively connected to the tuning mechanism;

    selecting a source of publicly broadcast information, on a waveband of sources of publicly broadcast information, that is being received by said consumer through the tuning mechanism;

    transmitting to said order processor data specifying said source of said publicly broadcast information selected by said tuning mechanism; and

    receiving signals from said order processor in response to receipt by said order processor of said data through the consumer transmitter unit.

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