Patent ID: 7181758

Claim:
An information distribution system for distributing information to users in separate locations, said system being associated with at least one receiving station and a plurality of receiving devices each located in one of said separate locations, each of said receiving devices connecting to a display device that can display said information, said system comprising: a remote site containing a first set of digital data; and a sender sending, at a time determined by said sender, a second set of digital data to said at least one receiving station for transmission to at least one of said plurality of receiving devices, said second set of digital data comprising a first set of displayable data, a second set of displayable data, another set of data designating a presence of said second set of displayable data, and a first linkage reference associated with said second set of displayable data and with said first set of digital data; wherein said at least one of said receiving devices causes said display device to display said first set of displayable data in a first way and said second set of displayable data in a second way, extracts at least a portion of said first linkage reference in response to a selection of said second set of displayable data by a user, and sends said at least a portion of said first linkage reference to said remote site.