METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

摘要

A system for the dissemination of information comprises a user access facility, a processing facility and a billing facility. The user access facility enables a user of the system to submit information for dissemination, while the processing facility converts the submitted information into a number of separate digital data pages. The system includes compilation means for compilling a selection of the digital data pages according to a predetermined selection criteria, and conversion means operable to create a transmittable video output signal containing a number of still video frames which are uninterpretable by a viewer when viewed at a standard broadcast frame rate. Each still video frame of the video output signal corresponds to one of the digital data pages in the compiled selection. The billing facility bills the user of the system as a function of the number of still video frames included in the video output signal.