摘要 |
A system and method for providing service of sending real time electronic information to selected individual viewers of transmitted video or computerized signals. The system of individual features five main areas of components: (1) viewer, (2) viewer display device such as a television, including an electronic device featuring signal recognition and signal decoding capabilities critical to implementation of the system, (3) service center, (4) providers of video or computerized signals, and (5) sender. The method for implementing the system of the invention features five principle steps: (1) initialization of system, (2) activation of system by sender of electronic information, (3) viewer reception, recognition and decoding of a transmitted compound video or computerized signal, featuring (i) the regularly transmitted video or computerized signal, (ii) subset viewer attribute information, (iii) encoded sender requested electronic information, and (iv) formatting of sender requested electronic information, (4) display of sender requested electronic information, formatted in a subwindow of display device of viewer television and (5) viewer response, in real time, back to provider, according to a fully interactive information system. This invention gives providers or senders of electronic information to effectively target, monitor, record, and service selected individual viewers of video or computerized signals, during real time, whereby such a system and method are based on obtaining results with high accuracy, and which are cost effective to implement. |