Patent ID: 7743096

Claim:
A chat manager system for administrating an event-related chat room, the chat manager comprising: a chat room creation device which communicates with a chat server to perform creating, cancelling and joining a chat room, and a trigger device which is programmed to activate itself at the occurrence of an event and automatically sends a request for creation of a chat room to the chat room creation device, wherein a subscriber associated with a decoder configured to receive and display chat messages is one of a passive and an active subscriber to the chat room with functionality to switch between the passive and the active subscriber, wherein the passive subscriber is not connected to the chat room using a return link and visualizes chat room discussions on the decoder, wherein visualizing comprises: buffering the chat room discussions in a buffer for delayed broadcast, formatting the chat room discussions for broadcast, when the buffer becomes full, inserting the chat room discussions into a table for broadcast to the decoder, and broadcasting the chat room discussions to the decoder as part of a digital bundle comprising a service related to the chat room, wherein the active subscriber is directly connected to the chat room via a return link.