Patent ID: 7346164

Claim:
A communication installation, comprising: an input interface suitable for receiving at least one first signal emanating from a first information source, as well as at least first software applications, at least one receiver/decoder device, available to an individual user, devised so as to use the first software applications to undertake the conversion of the first signal with a view to direct use by the user, and a local server, linked, on the one hand, to the input interface and, on the other hand, to the receiver/decoder device, and capable of transmitting the first software applications to the receiver/decoder device of the user so as to undertake the conversion of the first signal, wherein the input interface is able moreover to receive at least one second signal emanating from a second information source, as well as second software applications, in that the receiver/decoder device is devised moreover to use the second software applications to undertake the conversion of the second signal with a view to direct use of said second signal, and in that the local server comprises a dialogue module for talking to the receiver/decoder device so as to transmit, selectively as a function of a request from a user, the first or the second software applications to the receiver/decoder device of the user, so as to undertake the conversion of the first signal or of the second signal in accordance with the request from the user, wherein the local server comprises a harmonizer module linked to the input interface and able to put the first and second signals into a common form, while the receiver/decoder device is devised so as to undertake the conversion of a harmonized signal which exhibits said common form, and wherein the harmonizer module is devised so as to remodulate the first and second signals according to one and the same type of modulation, while the receiver/decoder device comprises a demultiplexer module devised so as to operate on signals exhibiting this type of modulation.