Patent ID: 8819739

Claim:
An interactive multimedia service system comprising: a mobile terminal for creating multimedia contents, encoding said multimedia contents in real time and transmitting said multimedia contents through a wireless network; a broadcasting station server for receiving said multimedia contents, converting said multimedia contents into broadcasting signals, synthesizing said broadcasting signals with an on-the-air broadcast program, and broadcasting said synthesized broadcast program through a broadcasting media; an interactive server functioning as either a service provision server, a gatekeeper or gateway with the gatekeeper or gateway being located in said broadcasting station server or in the service provision server for connecting said wireless network to said broadcasting station server and for converting the multimedia contents into a suitable content for broadcasting signals such that said synthesized broadcast program can be transmitted from said broadcasting station server back to said mobile terminal so that said mobile terminal displays said synthesized broadcast program in real time; wherein the synthesized broadcast program is decoded by said server according to a predetermined protocol with said protocol being selected from the group consisting of H.323 and at least one of RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol)/RTCP (Real time Control Protocol/RTSP (Real-time Streaming Protocol), and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and wherein said gatekeeper or gateway sets up a call with the mobile terminal and said mobile terminal includes a video codec for performing a real-time encoding of said multimedia contents via the video codec upon initiation of the call set up by the gatekeeper to the mobile terminal and for streaming the encoded multi-media contents to the gatekeeper in real time via said protocol with said mobile terminal participating in said real time broadcast program such that the user of the mobile terminal receives interactive TV broadcast content in real time.