Internet browsing from a television
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1. A system, comprising:
- a television remote which has a first communication part, operating to communicate wirelessly to a television that is controlled by said television remote, said television remote having first buttons controlling at least a plurality of functions on the controlled television, and wherein the controlled television is separate from said television remote, said television remote mounted in a housing, which housing is totally separate from the television being communicated with and controlled by the remote, and said television remote also having a command which accesses information from a supplemental signal that represents a link to additional information, which link can be selected by actuation of said remote to find said additional information from a database that is separate from said remote, and where said additional information provides additional information about a television program which represents program content that has been received over a program content receiving channel and is being currently displayed on a display of the television,wherein said television remote also includes a second communication part, that operates to communicate wirelessly with a separate computer, to send said additional information to said separate computer indicative of said link having been selected and to cause display of said information from said supplemental signal on a display of the separate computer, and where said display of said separate computer is totally separate from the display of the television.
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Abstract
A system for automatically using internet information which is contained within a commercial on an entertainment medium e.g. television. The system determines information indicative of the web address. This can be done automatically by optical character recognition or by storing information indicative of the web address in an interval of the television signal. Once obtained, the information is sent, either to a user'"'"'s computer, or to a central office which sends an e-mail to the user. In this way, the information can be used to automatically jump to a web site of the advertiser.
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1. A system, comprising:
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a television remote which has a first communication part, operating to communicate wirelessly to a television that is controlled by said television remote, said television remote having first buttons controlling at least a plurality of functions on the controlled television, and wherein the controlled television is separate from said television remote, said television remote mounted in a housing, which housing is totally separate from the television being communicated with and controlled by the remote, and said television remote also having a command which accesses information from a supplemental signal that represents a link to additional information, which link can be selected by actuation of said remote to find said additional information from a database that is separate from said remote, and where said additional information provides additional information about a television program which represents program content that has been received over a program content receiving channel and is being currently displayed on a display of the television, wherein said television remote also includes a second communication part, that operates to communicate wirelessly with a separate computer, to send said additional information to said separate computer indicative of said link having been selected and to cause display of said information from said supplemental signal on a display of the separate computer, and where said display of said separate computer is totally separate from the display of the television. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method, comprising:
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using a remote control device for an entertainment media at a first time to produce a wireless signal that is used to control television-displayed programming content that is being delivered by said entertainment media, said remote mounted in a housing, which housing is totally separate from a housing of the entertainment media being controlled by the remote control device; and using said remote control device at a second time, to indicate that access is desired to information associated with a supplemental signal that is associated with a television program which represents program content that is received over a program content receiving channel, that is being currently displayed on the entertainment media, responsive to said remote control device being used to indicate that access is desired to contents associated with said supplemental signal, wirelessly sending information indicative of the supplemental signal to a separate computer, which separate computer has a separate display from said television. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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