Simulcast web page delivery
First Claim
1. A system for providing future programming information comprising:
- a scanning module; and
a database, remote from a broadband receiver of a set-top box, configured to receive future programming information from one or more content sources,wherein the database is repeatedly scanned by the scanning module to identify one or more future programming information items stored therein,wherein the identified future programming information items are broadcast in a displayable single data stream to the broadband receiver, andwherein the identified one or more future programming information items comprise at least one web page accessible to devices other than set-top boxes from a first content source of the one or more content sources.
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Abstract
A multimedia broadcast system provides program schedule information simulcast as a Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) data stream including commands and displayable, selectable indicia associated with the commands, along with programs for display. A set top box is adapted to separate the HTML data stream and to store that data in a cache as WEB pages retrievable by a WEB browser in the set top box, whereupon the program schedule information is displayed including the displayable, selectable indicia. Selecting the indicia directs the set top box via the associated command to tune to a program associated with the displayable indicia. The indicia may be any text, icon, dynamic figurine, and the like. In a preferred embodiment program schedule WEB pages, including the commands and displayable indicia, are stored especially marked on a WEB server coupled to the Internet and to a scanner adapted to scan the WEB server for marked pages, and to upload the marked pages to a satellite broadcast system.
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22 Claims
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1. A system for providing future programming information comprising:
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a scanning module; and a database, remote from a broadband receiver of a set-top box, configured to receive future programming information from one or more content sources, wherein the database is repeatedly scanned by the scanning module to identify one or more future programming information items stored therein, wherein the identified future programming information items are broadcast in a displayable single data stream to the broadband receiver, and wherein the identified one or more future programming information items comprise at least one web page accessible to devices other than set-top boxes from a first content source of the one or more content sources. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for commanding a set-top box, comprising:
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receiving, at a broadband receiver in the set-top box, a displayable single data stream comprising future programming information having displayable indicia associated with one or more commands, wherein the display single data stream is received from a repeatedly scanned remote database and wherein the future programming information includes at least one active page accessible over a network to one or more devices other than set-top boxes from a content source providing the at least one page to the remote database; and storing said future programming information. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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