Patent ID: 8046791

Claim:
A method of controlling a remote station based on a television broadcast or cablecast transmission, said method comprising the steps of: programming a computer at said remote station to generate an instruction module comprising executable code in response to a control signal, said generated instruction module to be transferred to a memory at a remote receiver station and executed at said remote receiver station upon command to enable said remote receiver station to receive or present programming; receiving said control signal from a transmitter station at said remote station; passing said control signal to said computer at said remote station; computing, with said computer, a variable value in response to said control signal; generating, with said computer, based on said computed variable value, said instruction module; embedding, at said remote station, said generated instruction module into an information transmission including video to be broadcast or cablecast; and transmitting said information transmission from said remote station to said remote receiver station in said television broadcast or cablecast transmission.