| 摘要 |
PURPOSE: An interactive communication method and a client system are provided to initialize easily with simple operation, and to share information of the interactive television with a user and familiar user groups without reading the main text. CONSTITUTION: An interactive television system is composed of a plurality of client systems(1,2,3,4) connected to a server through a network(6). The client systems display broadcast contents based on received broadcast data. Icon buttons are displayed and superimposed on the displayed broadcast contents. Each icon button represents a different icon. When one of the displayed icon buttons is selected at one of the client systems, the request is transmitted from the client system to the server for asking to execute an icon represented by the selected icon button at another client system. When the server receives the request over the network, the server sends icon identification data corresponding to the icon over the network to the other client system. The other client system executes the icon based on the received icon identification data. |
