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Patent Inventor Names
Shigeharu Kondo0
Tsutomu Akiyama0
Tadamasa Kitsukawa0
Date of Patent
August 22, 2006
0Patent Application Number
098394820
Date Filed
April 21, 2001
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A system and method for interactive television (ITV) includes presenting both TV channels and “virtual channels” on an ITV. A virtual channel can be a Web page stored in memory of the ITV (or remote therefrom) and accessed by a microprocessor in the ITV when a user selects the virtual channel number using a conventional TV remote control. The particular Web page can be established based on consumer data, such as demographic data supplied by the consumer or consumer responses to prompts displayed along with a channel. The Web page associated with the virtual channel can be updated or changed by sending data to the ITV through the VBI of a TV signal or via the Internet, through a modem on the ITV.
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