System for electronically controllably viewing on a television updateable television programming information

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4751578
SERIAL NO

06738283

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The electronically controllable system of the invention for viewing on a television, updateable television programming information comprises a microcontroller which is partially controllable by remote control system and is updateable via telephone link, magnetic cards or floppy disks, or television or radio subcarrier, the microcontroller including input/output interfaces, a microprocessor and a RAM; a mixer for mixing a regularly received television signal with the signal generated by the microcontroller; an RF converter for receiving the radio frequency information from the mixer, microcontroller, and television antennae and properly converting the information into information which may be sent to the television; and a remote control system for permitting the viewer to direct the microcontroller to perform searches on information contained in the RAM so as to provide on the television screen in a chosen format, subsets of information desired by the viewer. The system preferably also includes a ROM for directing the microcontroller to access the information link should the RAM lose information due to power failure.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • GORDON, DAVID P., 65 WOODS END RD., STAMFORD, CT 06905;SUPER GUIDE CORPORATION, A CORP. OF NC;THE SUPERGUIDE CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Reiter, Eli Dix Hills, NY 4 921
Shannon, Frank Lindenhurst, NY 3 924
Zemering, Michael H Plainview, NY 1 900

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