Television Viewers Interaction and Voting Method
OwnerMichael Findlayinventor
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A method of providing audience feedback for a program includes a communication forming tag patterns embedded in an audio or video format. The communication is formed by software on a viewer device that encodes a message signal. When a link to the program is activated by the software viewers may send messages by embedding into the program. The messages any take the form of audio, video or text, and can be viewed using the same software on devices of other users. The software may be an app, embedded in a web site, or may be incorporated into a stand-alone box or in a computer chip to be place in any device to perform the same task. A person controlling the program may employ a camera overlay program box and re-air the communications of viewers while the program is aired and placed these comments directly on-screen.
A method for audience interaction and voting, including a member providing audience feedback, comprising the steps of:
The method of claim 10, wherein a group of the preset words, special characters and other symbols can also be assigned with multiple digit codes.
The method of claim 12, wherein all possible messages are assigned specific points and voting comprises a member selecting a program contestant via the Internet, forming the message concerning the performance of the contestant, and allotting the points of the message to the contestant.
The method of claim 13, wherein a plurality of members participate in voting, and the points of the messages allocated by the members are added to determine the total number of votes for a contestant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.