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US 2003/0217072 A1Published application
Information retrieval method and information registration method
OwnerKazuhiro Tsumurainventor
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Abstract
Retrieval information is input from a terminal device to the server of a broadcasting station via the Internet. The broadcasting station's server converts the retrieval information into text information and broadcasts it. The broadcasted text information is received by a terminal device equipped with a teletext broadcasting receiving function. Then, the requested information is searched for out of pre-registered provided information, and thus searched information is transmitted via the Internet to the terminal device that made the request.
Claims9
An information retrieval method comprising:
- a first step of receiving retrieval information for retrieving information requested by a terminal device via the Internet;
- a second step of converting the retrieval information into text information and broadcasting it;
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- a third step of making a terminal device equipped with a teletext broadcasting receiving function for receiving broadcasted text information, search information requested by the text information out of provided information registered in advance, and transmit the searched information to the terminal device requesting the search via the Internet.
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An information registration method comprising:
- a first step of accessing a broadcasting station server by a terminal device via the Internet, and downloading application software used to register information to be provided;
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- a second step of inputting information to be provided from the terminal device and registering the information at a predetermined memory site based on an instruction made by the application software downloaded in the first step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.