Patent ID: 6762733
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: A63F,H04N

Abstract:
A guest room communications system for generating interactive, in-room videographic display sessions in a plurality of guest rooms, comprising:a display associated with each of the plurality of guest rooms; videographic processing systems associated with ones of the guest rooms, each videographic processing system including: a memory system including at least one program memory configured to store one or more videographics programs, and a videographics program executing processor, coupled to the memory system, configured to receive information generated during an in-room interactive videographics display session and to execute a selected one of the videographics programs to produce images on an associated display, said videographics program executing processor having a predetermined address space for executing the selected videographics program, wherein said memory system further includes: a plurality of address mapping registers, the contents of which determine a configuration of the memory system depending on which of a plurality of different programs is to be executed by the videographics program executing processor, and memory control circuitry coupled to said plurality of address mapping registers configuring the memory system including controlling the location of said program memory in the address space of said videographics program executing processor depending on the contents of said plurality of address mapping registers.