PROVIDING INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAMMING WHICH

Brand Owner Address Description
ZINGEXTRA Zing Systems, L.P. 3070 Congress Street Fairfield CT 06430 providing interactive television programming which allows a participant to register a response to a prompt;computer hardware and computer software for providing access to on-line databases and to serve as a gateway to other on-line systems; electronic apparatus for use with a television for receiving information and sending information in response to the received information, namely remote controllers, hand held controllers, television decoders, television set top converters, modems, printers, facsimile machines, electronic devices capable of sending and/or receiving an infrared signal for communicating data, and related software and manuals distributed therewith; electronic program authoring system, namely software which facilitates the development of interactive programming whereby viewers respond to questions relating to television programming and manuals distributed therewith; electronic data insertion systems, namely electronic hardware for synchronizing and inserting interactive data into a television signal, and related software and manuals distributed therewith;ZING EXTRA;
 

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Technical Examples
  1. An interactive television system displays a television program having an associated channel. The system also displays an interactive television mode indicator if the displayed television program supports an interactive television mode. The interactive television mode is activated in response to a request from a viewer of the television program to activate the interactive television mode. The system updates a channel status list to indicate that the television program is being viewed in the interactive television mode. The system is also able to handle requests for activating an online television mode. When changing channels, the channel status list is used to restore a previously activated interactive television mode or online television mode for a particular television channel. Two different indicators may be displayed to indicate whether the television program supports an interactive television mode and/or an online television mode.