Patent ID: 7861278

Claim:
A method of controlling an intermediate transmitter station in a network with a plurality of intermediate transmitter stations, the method including: receiving mass medium programming and a control signal at said intermediate transmitter station from an origination station; generating information to be associated with said mass medium programming at said transmitter station, said information being related to said mass medium programming and said transmitter station in said network and said information being different from information generated at other of said plurality of intermediate transmitter stations; receiving, at said intermediate transmitter station from said origination station, a schedule that designates said mass medium programming and includes at least: (a) a time to transmit said mass medium programming to a remote receiver station; and (b) a channel on which to transmit said mass medium programming to said remote receiver station; selecting said information to be associated with said mass medium programming based on said schedule, said selected information including software; detecting the presence of said control signal at said intermediate transmitter station and passing said control signal to said computer, said control signal designating at least one of said mass medium programming and said information to be associated with said mass medium programming; selecting at least one of code and data, said selected at least one of code and data being effective to perform one of: (a) control said remote receiver station, (b) serve as a source of receiver specific data to supplement said mass medium programming, and (c) serve as a source of receiver specific data to complete said mass medium programming; controlling a selective transmission device to communicate said information to be associated with said mass medium programming to one of a selected signal generator and a signal generator at a selected time; generating a signal containing said mass medium programming, said selected at least one of code and data and said information to be associated with said mass medium programming; and transmitting said signal to a remote receiver station.