System and method for enhancing broadcast or recorded programs with information on the world wide web

Abstract

The present invention aims to provide a system, method or computer program for enabling a broadcast listener or television viewer (100) to access and receive a program (102) in real time (or previously played and recorded on an audio or video player / recording) (101) related supplementary information (101). The preferred embodiment of the present invention relates to a system and method for enabling a person (100) receiving a broadcast program (102) (or listening to or viewing a recorded program) to choose from a number of options to draw his or her attention (101, 100). 103) and access more information related to those themes or sequences from the World Wide Web immediately or later. The system is based on the synchronization of the local time of the receiver (or recorder) and the transmitter according to the same universal time (201, 202), so that the transmitted and received (or recorded) information flow is always synchronized with the receiver (or recorder) transmitter) is independent of the relative position of the transmitter. Synchronization is performed with reference to a universal time such as Global Positioning System Time (GPS Time), Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) time, or other suitable universal time based on a satellite system. GPS or GLONASS receivers connected to or integrated into the broadcast station. On the receiver side, a GPS or GLONASS receiver can be integrated or connected to user equipment - for example, a personal computer, portable computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), smartphone or single-board mobile computer - (or audio or video recorder), user equipment Can be stand-alone or separate from the radio or television receiver. The system is also based on a number of hyperlinks defined for a given time interval during the production of the broadcast program. These time intervals are synchronized with universal time. Hyperlinks are associated with transmitted (and recorded) information. Hyperlinks can be retrieved, selected, and activated by radio listeners or television viewers during the time interval in which the hyperlinks are defined during the broadcast of the program (or during its playback).

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to techniques for integrating broadcast and computer systems and, more particularly, to a system for enhancing radio or television programming (broadcast and recorded programming more broadly) with information on the World Wide Web and methods. Background technique [0002] play [0003] Media consumers demand more services. When people watch live or recorded television, they also want to access relevant supplemental data, such as stock and product prices, traffic and weather conditions, sports records from the Olympics or updated football scores. Supplementary information associated with an on-line or recorded broadcast may include biographies of players at a football game, historical background to events cited in a news program, or recipes for apple pie in a cooking show. [0004] On the consumer side, people are looking to find more information or data about what they hear or see in the media or from what t...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] A problem with conventional television or broadcast systems to provide these services is that information is continuously broadcast in the same direction from the transmitter to multiple receivers, from the provider to multiple consumers

[0048] As the previous discussion illustrates, although over the past few years, many systems have been developed to increase the level of user interaction, and thus, to provide more information and opportunities for learning and entertainment, there are currently huge Information sources that remain inaccessible with traditional broadcast media (i.e., using conventional, one-way, television and radio broadcast systems, passive TV and radio receivers, conventional audio and VCR recording and playback equipment)

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