Interactive Multi-User Tv Method and System and a Tv Receiver for Using Such a Method

Interactive TV system in which a television program (23) and at least one related interactive program (22) are broadcast to a TV reception device (3), characterized in that it comprises:

• the TV receiver device (3) forming the server station;
• at least one terminal (4) connected to a mobile telephony network forming a client station;
• parts of the related interactive program, programmed in the form of applets, being downloaded into a terminal (4) from the TV reception device (3) and run by the operating system of the terminal (4), the terminal being related to the TV reception device (3) through a communication channel (5).

TV reception device, characterized in that it is equipped with a functional unit (1) comprising:

• a decoding module to extract an interactive software program (22) linked to a TV program (23), from a broadcast flow (10);
• a loading module (7) storing the interactive program (22) and transferring interactive program parts programmed in the form of applets to terminals (4) connected to a mobile telephony network, the program parts being intended to be executed by the terminals (4);
• a communication module (8) controlling the two-directional data flows between a terminal (4) and the functional unit (1).

Mobile telephony terminal, characterized in that it comprises at least:

• a module (13) for detection of a TV reception device (3) by a wireless communication channel (5);
• an operating system to run at least one interactive software program part downloaded through the communication channel (5) by the TV reception device (3), the interactive program part programmed in the form of applets being linked to a TV program broadcast on the TV reception device.