Patent ID: 6021432
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: G06F,H04H

Abstract:
A method for processing broadcast information, comprising the steps of:(a) receiving, by an information processing device, a broadcast stream comprising a human-perceptible broadcast program embedded with a plurality of human-imperceptible sets of information, each set of information corresponding to one of a plurality of available types of information, wherein:the human-perceptible broadcast program can be directly perceived by a person; andthe information in the human-imperceptible sets of information cannot be directly conveyed to a person without first being processed by an information processing device;(b) automatically analyzing, by the information processing device, the broadcast stream to identify a subset of information in the broadcast stream corresponding to one or more preselected types of information identified in a personal profile stored in the information processing device; and(c) processing, by the information processing device, the subset of information to present the subset of information in a human-perceptible form to a user.