发明名称 |
Telephone access video game distribution center |
摘要 |
A digital, interactive communication system designed to provide a plurality of remote subscribers with any one of a plurality of stored video games or like software packages through the use of a home computing assembly maintained within the subscriber's home and structured to display video as well as generating audio on a standard television receiver and further incorporating the ability to utilize contemporary video gaming control devices for subscriber program interaction. A bi-directional communication link is established over the telephone lines between the home computing assembly and the central remote game storage center wherein the software programs are transmitted as a modulated carrier to the subscriber. Program selection is controlled by a remote game storage center executive software program. Automatic billing is performed by computing equipment maintained in the remote game storage center and transmitted to a headquarters which also receives diagnostic messages associated with the remote game center and/or the associated plurality of home computing elements.
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申请公布号 |
US5051822(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1991.09.24 |
申请号 |
US19890423946 |
申请日期 |
1989.10.19 |
申请人 |
INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEMS, INC. |
发明人 |
RHOADES, DONALD E. |
分类号 |
H04H1/02;A63F13/12;G06F13/00;G07F17/32;H04N7/16;H04N7/173 |
主分类号 |
H04H1/02 |
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