Patent ID: 7849493

Claim:
A method of processing signals at a receiver station based upon receiving at least one of a broadcast and a cablecast transmission, said receiver station including a computer, said method comprising: receiving in said at least one of a broadcast and a cablecast transmission information content and at least one control signal with respect to budgeting at said receiver station, said information content including a first projected datum, said first projected datum designating a product or service and projecting a price or quantity; storing said first projected datum in said computer; storing subscriber resource data at said receiver station, said resource data including at least two of: (1) an equipment or real estate datum; (2) a labor datum; and (3) a financial datum; generating budget data using said computer by processing data stored in said computer in response to said at least one control signal, said data stored in said computer including said first projected datum and said subscriber resource data, said budget data including at least two of: (1) an income datum; (2) an expense datum; and (3) a profit datum; and outputting to a subscriber at least a portion of said information content and at least one of said budget data, wherein said information content explains at least a portion of a subscriber specific budget including said budget data.