BROADCASTING SYSTEM

摘要

A broadcasting system provides a telephone number as identity information during a registration process of a user equipment intended to be used as a user broadcasting equipment. The telephone number is one of many telephone numbers associated with the broadcasting system. During the registration process in which the user equipment is identified as a user broadcasting equipment, various information associated with the user equipment are obtained and stored. The identity information, i.e., the telephone number, maps to the stored information such that when the user equipment is used to dial the provided telephone number, the broadcasting system automatically recognizes the user equipment is making a dial to broadcast request. Upon checking the stored information associated with the user equipment, the broadcasting system allows the user equipment to broadcast to one or more other user equipment registered as listeners to a scheduled broadcast.

主权项

1. A broadcasting system comprising:
an input/output (I/O) interface; a signal processing module coupled to the I/O interface; a broadcast module coupled to the I/O interface; and a management module coupled to the broadcast module, the I/O interface and the signal processing module, where the I/O interface extracts identity information from a received signal, transfers the extracted identity information to the management module and transfers the received signals to the signal processing module for generating a processed signal, such that when the management module determines that the extracted identity information matches stored information previously generated by the management module during a broadcaster registration process, the management module transfers the processed signal to the broadcast module for broadcasting; and when the management module determines that the extracted identity information matches stored information previously generated by the management module during a listener registration process, the management module broadcasts to a user equipment whose information was stored during the listener registration process.