Systems and methods for high-bandwidth delivery of customer-specific information

摘要

Customer-specific information such as billing information, a listing of available services or the like can be provided to multiple receivers via a satellite or other high-bandwidth connection. The customers to receive customer-specific information are selected, and a broadcast message is created that includes the customer-specific information, as well as an identifier for each receiver associated with the selected customers. The broadcast message is transmitted on the high-bandwidth connection to thereby allow each of the receivers associated with the selected customers to extract the customer-specific information based upon the identifier and to display the customer-specific information to the customer.

主权项

1. A method of providing customer-specific information to each of a plurality of customers via a high-bandwidth connection, wherein each of the plurality of customers is associated with one of a plurality of receivers each having an identifier, the method comprising:
automatically selecting a subset of the plurality of customers based upon the customer-specific information associated with each of the plurality of customers in the subset of the plurality of customers; creating a broadcast message, wherein the broadcast message comprises the customer-specific information for each of the plurality of customers in the subset of the plurality of customers and the identifier of the receiver associated with each of the plurality of customers in the subset of the plurality of customers; converting the customer-specific information for each of the plurality of customers into a at least one code corresponding to the customer specific information; and transmitting the broadcast message on the high-bandwidth connection to thereby allow each of the receivers associated with the plurality of customers in the subset of the plurality of customers to extract the at least one code for the customer based upon the identifier and, to convert the code into the customer-specific information utilizing a look-up table, the look-up table storing at least one of a text string, a descriptor or other information to be presented to the user not directly included in the code, and to display the customer-specific information to the customer, wherein the customer specific information includes information relating to the services purchased by each of the plurality of customers.