Entertainment system for collecting user inputs by periodically interleaving game collection interrogations into series of system interrogations during interruption of system interrogations

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PATENT NO 5907715
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08881213

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A hotel room entertainment system enables video games to be played in each room of a hotel without providing a video game generator in each room. The entertainment system includes at a head end system portion in which the video game audio and video signals are generated and a plurality of guest terminals. Game interrogations are provided to each guest terminal in an active game-playing mode, each game interrogation having a plurality of response positions for guest terminal responses to the interrogation. The game interrogations are interleaved with a series of system interrogations generated at the head end system, enabling the entertainment system to provide video game signals along with other entertainment and services to the guest terminals using a single distribution system.

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SONIFI SOLUTIONS INC3900 WEST INNOVATION STREET SIOUX FALLS SD 57107-7002

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bankers, David M Sioux Falls, SD 10 627
Cinco, Christopher A Sioux Falls, SD 4 500
Hills, Vernon E Sioux Falls, SD 6 789
Plucker, Prentice J Chanceller, SD 4 309
Stoel, Leon P Sioux Falls, SD 12 796

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