Patent ID: 7194758
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital broadcast system, comprising: a receiving device, one or more communication devices, and a broadcast station device, wherein control instructing information is multiplexed with a program, (i) the receiving device includes: receiving means for receiving a digital broadcast of a program together with the multiplexed control instructing information; presenting means for presenting the program received by the receiving means to a viewer; and program ID information sending means for sending program ID (identification) information that specifies either the presented program or a program related to the presented program to each of the communication devices when having detected the control instructing information, the program ID information sending means sends the program ID information by transmitting either an IR (infrared) signal or a radio wave whose output is 1.0 mW or lower, wherein the receiving means includes a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the multiplexed control instruction information, and sends the demultiplexed control instructing information to the program ID information sending means, (ii) each of the communication devices receives the sent program ID information and sends device ID information that specifies the communication device to the broadcast station device together with the received program ID information, (iii) the broadcast station device includes: service processing means for receiving the program ID information and the device ID information from each of the communication devices, and sending service information, which is for the viewer of the presented program and is information related to the program specified by the program ID information, to each of the communication devices specified by the device ID information, (iv) each of the communication devices further includes: service information receiving means for receiving the service information, (v) each of the communication devices is a portable phone and includes: program ID information receiving means for receiving the sent program ID information; target phone number storage means for storing a phone number of the broadcast station device; own phone number storage means for storing a phone number of the communication device as the device ID information; and transmission means for telephoning the phone number stored by the target phone number storage means and sending the program ID information and the phone number stored by the own phone number storage means to the broadcast station device via a telephone line, (vi) the service information receiving means also informs the viewer about the received service information, and (vii) the service processing means telephones the sent phone number of each of the communication devices and sends a message for informing the viewer as the service information via a telephone line.