Patent ID: 7185282

Claim:
For a home health system having a patient station equipped with a television set and a remotely located provider station for serving a patient located at said patient station, a device for interfacing said television set at said patient station with said home health system, comprising: an audio/video manager for handling bi-directional exchanges of audio and video data between a patient station and a remotely located provider station; and a RF modulator having a first input coupled to a television signal source and a second input coupled to said audio/video manager, said RF modulator normally passing a first television broadcast signal, received from said television signal source, to a television set; said audio/video manager transferring audio and video data, received from said remotely located provider station, to said RF modulator; upon receipt of said audio and video data from said audio/video manager, said RF modulator passing, in place of said first television broadcast signal received from said television source, said audio and video data received from said audio/video manager to said television set; and wherein said RF modulator constructs a second television broadcast signal from said audio and video received from audio/video manager and wherein said RF modulator passes said second television broadcast signal in place of said first television broadcast signal.