Patent ID: 6147663
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: A63F,H04N

Abstract:
A guest room communications system for generating interactive, in-room videographic display sessions in a plurality of guest rooms, comprising:an in-room display located in each of the plurality of guest rooms;an array of videographic processing systems assignable to ones of the guest rooms, each videographic processing system including:a memory system that stores the videographics program, anda videographics program executing processor, coupled to the memory system and receiving information generated during an in-room interactive videographics display session, that executes the videographics program; anda halt controller that halts the videographics program being executed in one of the videographics processors at a first point in the videographics program where a first command is received, and in response thereafter to a second command, resuming execution of the videographics program at the first point.