Method and apparatus for the distribution of multi-media documents

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5790937
SERIAL NO

08495547

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Multi-media documents, in the form of digital signals, are fed into a multiplexer/coder by several sub-channels, which are time multiplexed. A control signal is added and the combined signal is modulated into a transmission signal at the transmitter side. At the receiver side, the transmission signal is processed up to the output of a tuner like a normal signal for television. After the tuner, the signal is demodulated, digitized, demultiplexed, and the control information of the control signal is extracted from the bit stream so that by monitoring said control information signal provided with the transmission, a transmission channel decoder enables a multi-media player to read a distributed document according to the program of the user. Alternately, the signal is directly stored by a multi-media player and the stored signal is demodulated, digitized, demultiplexed and the control information of the control signal is extracted from the bit stream so that by monitoring the control information signal provided with the transmission, a transmission channel decoder controls a reproduction device for reproducing a distributed document according to the programming of the user.

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  • THOMSON MULTIMEDIA S.A.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gutle, Hubert Durbach, DE 1 46

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