Patent ID: 7360232

Claim:
An interactive video casting system, comprising: a headend having a multiplexer to multiplex a plurality of input television signals for a corresponding plurality of television channels, wherein at least some of the television signals are accompanied by supplemental content including trigger information associated with programming on respective television channels; a trigger processor coupled to the multiplexer to obtain the trigger information from at least some of the television channels; a remote control device configured and arranged for providing user input to the system, the remote control device comprising a storage unit on the remote control device; and a storage unit coupled to the headend to store the trigger information obtained by the trigger processor from the television channels, wherein the interactive video casting system is configured and arranged to allow the user to individually identify as a user preference one or more television channels, from the plurality of television channels, for which trigger information will be provided to the remote control device for storage in the storage unit on the remote control device for later retrieval from the storage unit on the remote control device.