Patent ID: 6172673
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
Equipment for selective reception of multimedia transmissions from a telecommunications system and for the presentation of multimedia information in said multimedia transmission to a user, comprising:a first apparatus havingmeans for receiving from said telecommunications system audiovisual high-capacity unidirectional multimedia transmissions containing multimedia information, andmeans for presenting said multimedia information to a user, anda second apparatus having a bidirectional communications terminal comprising a wireless communication device for delivering information related to the use of said multimedia information to said telecommunications system, said bidirectional communications terminal transmitting said information related to the use of said multimedia information at a slower transmission rate than the rate of said unidirectional multimedia transmissions,and wherein said first apparatus and said second apparatus are linked by a local wireless communication link and said first apparatus further comprises:storage means for the temporary storage of received multimedia information to be presented to a user, andan agent for controlling dynamic reception and storage of received multimedia information and for controlling the delivering of said information related to the use of multimedia information to said telecommunications system via said second apparatus.