Method for finding an Internet or E-mail address
First Claim
1. Method for accessing a network resource comprising the steps of:
- receiving textual information as part of a television based signal, wherein said textual information is at least one of closed captioning information, teletext information, and text based auxiliary information,displaying the received textual information;
analyzing the received textual information for a fraction of a network address wherein said fraction corresponds to an incomplete network resource address and is not designated as a network address;
generating a valid network resource address from said received textual information by adding at least one text string to the fraction, wherein said valid network resource address is capable of being used to access a resource via a network;
accessing a resource corresponding to said valid network resource by using said valid network resource address.
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Abstract
The invention is based on a method for finding an Internet or E-mail address.
Internet or E-mail addresses are noted in the content of many teletext pages regardless of whether they contain advertising or information. The addresses are currently transmitted within the visible area of a teletext page so that the user must normally copy them and enter them into an Internet browser.
The invention is based on the object of creating a simplified method for finding an Internet or E-mail address.
The method according to the invention for finding an Internet or E-mail address which is reproduced in a teletext system, comprising visible areas and non-visible areas of the teletext system, a selection unit, a control unit and a link unit, is distinguished by the fact that the address in the visible area is selected by the selection unit, the control unit recognizes the selected address, the control unit accepts and/or modifies the address format and the address is selected via the link unit.
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17 Claims
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1. Method for accessing a network resource comprising the steps of:
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receiving textual information as part of a television based signal, wherein said textual information is at least one of closed captioning information, teletext information, and text based auxiliary information, displaying the received textual information; analyzing the received textual information for a fraction of a network address wherein said fraction corresponds to an incomplete network resource address and is not designated as a network address; generating a valid network resource address from said received textual information by adding at least one text string to the fraction, wherein said valid network resource address is capable of being used to access a resource via a network; accessing a resource corresponding to said valid network resource by using said valid network resource address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. Apparatus for accessing resources resident at a network node be designated by a given network address comprising:
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means for receiving textual information as part of a television based signal comprised in at least one of;
a satellite, cable, and terrestrial signal, wherein said textual information is at least one of closed captioning information, teletext information, and text based auxiliary information;means for providing the received textual information to a display; means for determining a fraction of a network address information as being part of said textual information, wherein said fraction corresponds to an incomplete network resource address and said fraction is not designated as a network address; and means for remotely accessing a network resource corresponding to the generated network resource designator by using said fraction of a network address to form a network address corresponding to said network resource.
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17. Method for accessing a network comprising the steps of:
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receiving textual information as part of a video based signal, wherein said textual information is at least one of closed captioning information, teletext information, and text based auxiliary information, displaying the received textual information; generating a valid network resource address from said received textual information by adding at least one string to said received textual information when said textual information lacks a designator that is used to form an address for accessing a resource via a network, wherein said valid network resource address when generated is capable of being used to access a resource via a network; accessing a resource corresponding to said valid network resource by using said valid network resource address.
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