Integrated Receiver System for Personalized Broadcast Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the capability to integrate broadcast communications with computer processing for user-specific information dissemination, failing to efficiently combine and control receiver systems, manage complex information demands, ensure secure usage of pay-per-view programming, and provide comprehensive audit trails for advertisers and copyright holders.
Innovation Solution
An integrated system that enables simultaneous generation of user-specific information across multiple receiver stations through embedded signals, allowing for the automation of intermediate and ultimate receiver stations, secure decryption, and comprehensive monitoring and recording of programming usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If broadcast communications media are used to convey general information to large audiences, then the capacity to reach mass audiences is improved, but the capacity to convey user-specific information simultaneously to each user is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The broadcast signal is segmented into multiple components: a common signal containing general information accessible to all users, and individualized signals containing user-specific information tailored to each receiver. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously serve mass audiences while delivering personalized content to each user.
Solution Approach 2:
The broadcast communication system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as both a mass media channel for general information dissemination and as an individualized information delivery system. The receiver apparatus is also multi-functional, capable of receiving and processing both common broadcast signals and user-specific signals.
2Adaptability or versatility
If computer processing is used to generate and display user-specific information, then the capacity for processing and displaying user-specific information is improved, but ease of use and mass media capability are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The receiver apparatus automatically performs computer processing functions to generate and display user-specific information without requiring user intervention. The system self-services by receiving program instructions from the broadcast signal, executing them locally, and displaying results, thereby maintaining ease of use while providing sophisticated information processing capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges broadcast communication capabilities with computer processing capabilities into a unified system. The receiver apparatus combines the simplicity of broadcast reception with the power of local computation, creating a hybrid system that enjoys both the ease of mass media consumption and the versatility of computer processing.
3Extent of automation
If separate receiver systems for broadcast media and computers are used, then each system can operate independently, but the capacity to combine and control receiver systems for integrated functionality is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges previously separate broadcast receiver and computer systems into a single integrated receiver apparatus. This unified system can independently perform broadcast reception functions while simultaneously executing computer processing functions, and can also coordinate both functions together to achieve integrated capabilities such as automatic program execution based on broadcast signals.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated receiver apparatus is designed as a universal device capable of performing multiple functions: receiving broadcast signals, decrypting them, executing program instructions, generating user-specific information, and displaying results. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate systems while maintaining the ability to operate in different modes independently or in combination.
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AI summary
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.