Patent ID: 7228560

Claim:
A system for remotely preparing enhanced programming content in accordance with selections of a viewer and providing an enhanced programming experience to the viewer of an entertainment module without the entertainment module having to retrieve, interpret or render the enhanced programming content before displaying the same to the viewer, the system comprising: (a) an entertainment module configured to display video programming and enhanced programming content to a viewer; and (b) an enhancement module for receiving a plurality of broadcast channels of video programming to be delivered to the entertainment module and at least one of creating and retrieving enhanced programming content associated with the video programming provided over the plurality of broadcast channels, the enhancement module comprising: (i) a multiplexing module configured to deliver video programming and enhanced programming content to the entertainment module, the programming comprising at least one enhanced programming control signal; and (ii) an access channel module, remote from the entertainment module, configured to identify the at least one enhanced programming control signal and render the enhanced programming content into captured images based upon the at least one enhanced programming control signal, the captured images of the enhanced programming being deliverable to the entertainment module, wherein the access channel module comprises plurality of server modules, wherein each of the plurality of server modules is dedicated a particular one of the plurality of broadcast channels of video programming received by the enhancement module, and wherein each of the plurality of server modules is configured to render the enhanced programming content into the captured images of a format that can be displayed by the entertainment module without additional interpretation or rendering.