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Aggregate information production and display system

  • US 6,094,671 A
  • Filed: 10/09/1997
  • Issued: 07/25/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A media distribution network system comprising:

  • a producer station maintaining and transmitting to one or more remote receiving stations an envelope of aggregate data, the envelope of aggregate data including a plurality of media files selected from the group consisting of at least two or more among an audio file, a text or graphic file, and a video file, the envelope of aggregate data further including a mark-up language document having a plurality of tags each respectively associated with at least one of the media files;

    a transmission system connected to the producer station and the remote receiving stations, the transmission system broadcasting the envelope of aggregate data from the producer station to one or more remote receiver stations;

    a plurality of remote receiving stations then receiving the envelope of aggregate data from the producer station and transmission system and locally store the envelope of aggregate data in a respective local storage medium associated with each such receiving station, each of the plurality of receiving stations including means for accessing the mark-up language document, the mark-up language document providing means for accessing selective ones of the plurality of media files via a plurality of tags, so that at least one of such receiving stations receives the envelope of data and accesses or plays selective media files by opening the envelope and activating one or more of its associated tags.

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