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Communicating scripts in a data service channel of a video signal

  • US 6,938,270 B2
  • Filed: 04/07/1999
  • Issued: 08/30/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of enhancing an information resource comprising a Web page used to enhance a video broadcast signal with Internet content, wherein the information resource simultaneously resides in memory on a number of remote receivers, the method comprising:

  • a. storing, in one or more receivers, an information resource identified by a first resource identifier, the information resource including one or more scripts;

    b. monitoring at the one or more receivers a data service channel of a broadcast signal for a script trigger, wherein the script trigger includes a second resource identifier and a script which contains executable code that passes a value to the one or more scripts of the information resource; and

    c. thereafter, running the executable code of the script on the one or more receivers, upon receipt of the script trigger, if the second resource identifier matches the first resource identifier of the stored information resource.

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