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Multi-media coordinated information system with multiple user devices and multiple interconnection networks

  • US 7,086,080 B2
  • Filed: 11/08/2001
  • Issued: 08/01/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for enabling coordinated sessions of a television program and a synchronized presentation from a network server, said method comprising:

  • providing a synchronized data stream for being selectively transmitted by said network server, said synchronized data stream being selectively transmitted over a first interconnection network;

    providing said television program for being selectively transmitted over a second interconnection network; and

    coordinating said synchronized data stream with said television program such that at any given time, content from said synchronized data stream corresponds to content presented in said television program, said synchronized data stream being transmitted over said first interconnection network to a control device, said control device including a predetermined number of receptacles for receiving corresponding control units, said receptacles being positioned in an array from a front portion to a back portion of said control device, said front portion being arranged for viewing by a user whereby only a display means of a front-most control unit is viewable by said user.

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