Method of transferring messages
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsStefan Wahl, Volker Laible, Klaus Satzke
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a server and a method for transferring a message originating in a telecommunication network to an addressed subscriber. A telecommunication terminal sends a message to a server. The server inserts an address allocated to a TV set of the address subscriber to the message or encrypts the message by means of an encryption key allocated to a TV set of the address subscriber. In the following, a headend node of a TV broadcast network inserts the message into a TV signal and broadcasts the TV signal via a TV broadcast channel. A receiver unit assigned to the TV set of the addressed subscriber filters out the message and outputs the message on the TV set.
Claims10
A method of transferring a message originating in a telecommunication network (1) to an addressed subscriber, the method comprising the steps of:
- transmitting the message from a telecommunication terminal of the telecommunication network to a server;
- adding an address allocated to a TV set of the addressed subscriber or encrypting the message by means of an encryption key allocated to a TV set of the addressed subscriber and inserting the message into a TV signal;
- broadcasting the TV signal via a TV broadcast channel;
- filtering out the message at a receiver unit assigned to the TV set of the addressed subscriber;
- and outputting the message on the TV set.
Server for controlling the transfer of messages originating in a telecommunication network to addressed subscribers, the server comprising a control unit adapted to receive a message from a telecommunication terminal of the telecommunication network, to determine an address allocated to an TV set of the addressed subscriber or an encryption key allocated to the TV set of the addressed subscriber, to transfer the message to an headend node of a TV broadcasting network and to cause the headend node to insert the message together with the address or insert the message encrypted by means of the encryption key into a TV signal and to broadcast the TV signal via a TV broadcast channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.