Patent ID: 8667523

Claim:
A method for soliciting feedback from an audience comprising: receiving an augmented signal from a content distributor to be processed, the augmented signal having a program content and a feedback form relating to the program content; demodulating the augmented signal to generate a base-band signal; extracting the program content from the base-band signal for rendering on a television screen of a television set; forwarding the base-band signal to a remote controller; using the base-band signal forwarded to the remote controller to extract the feedback form for delivery to one or more electronic devices, external to the television set, in response to a command of a user of the television screen; and forwarding, to the content distributor, the feedback form from the one or more electronic devices after the feedback form has been provided with feedback information by the user, via a communication infrastructure comprising at least one of a cellular network, an Internet connection, and a fax line.