USER PREFERENCES IN INTERACTIVE PERSONAL TELEVISION

摘要

A method and apparatus for providing an Interactive Television service. The method comprises storing user preferences relating to the service and, at one of a Personal Interaction Profile function and a Group Interaction Profile function, receiving from a broadcast server information identifying an event relating to the interactive service. The received information is compared with the user preferences to determine whether a notification should be sent to the user and, if it is determined that the notification should be sent to the user, the notification is sent to a user device.