Patent ID: 7120921
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A system of providing broadcast informations, comprising: a receiving processing unit constructed so as to receive both program and advertisement broadcast information, the receiving processing unit producing a combined output that contains both the program and advertisement information, as well as an ad-only output that contains only the advertisement information; an accumulating unit that receives and accumulates the ad-only output from the receiving processing unit; a control unit that is operable by an operator and connected to the accumulating unit, the control unit being responsive to operator input to fetch operator-selected said advertisement information from the accumulating unit and generate the operator-selected advertisement information as an output, the control unit also generating as an output reproducing instructions based on the operator input; and a reproducing unit that receives as inputs the combined output from the receiving processing unit and the operator-selected advertisement information and reproducing instructions from the control unit; wherein the reproducing unit produces at a single output for the operator either the combined output or the operator-selected advertisement information in accordance with the operator input.