Patent ID: 7617310

Claim:
A system for remotely controlling and monitoring a radio broadcast transmitter of a radio-transmitting station according to the DIN IEC 864 standard, said system comprising a remote-control device through which operating functions of the broadcast transmitter of the radio-transmitting station according to the DIN IEC 864 standard are continuously monitored and remote-controlled from a center located remote from the broadcast transmitter, the radio broadcast transmitter of the radio-transmitting station according to the DIN IEC 864 standard broadcasts a radio signal as a primary mode of communication, the center including an Internet browser and being connected to the broadcast transmitter through a public or private network different than the primary mode of communication by: (a) a first connection comprising the Internet browser of the center communicating through the network to an Internet server connected to the remote control device of the broadcast transmitter, such that the operating functions of the broadcast transmitter are interrogated and remote controlled according to HTTP protocol; and (b) a second checkback connection comprising: one of (i) an SNMP manager in the center communicating through the network to an SNMP agent connected to the remote-control device of the broadcast transmitter, and (ii) an Internet server in the center communicating through the network by HTTP to an Internet client assigned to the remote-control device of the broadcast transmitter, wherein the operating functions of the broadcast transmitter are transmitted automatically from the broadcast transmitter to the center via the second checkback connection without prompting from the center, the operating functions of the broadcast transmitter are transmitted via the second checkback connection to the center only in the event of interfering deviations in the operating functions, and the Internet server is embedded with the remote-control device of the broadcast transmitter to form a unit.