Interactive services
AssigneeSky CP Limited
InventorsAnthony Davies, Edward Snodgrass, William Howe
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Abstract
A media receiving device receives media programmes with associated interactive services, a selected one of which can be triggered by a user pressing a selected one of a plurality of interactive buttons. The media receiving device is provided with a remote control having fewer than said plurality of interactive buttons, and preferably only one such interactive button. The media receiving device maps the interactive button pressed on the remote control to a selected virtual button, based for example on contextual information available to the device.
Claims15
A media receiver for receiving and outputting media content and providing a plurality of different interactive services associated with the output media content, the media receiver being controllable by a user by means of a remote control arranged to transmit to the media receiver one or more interactive service selection signals, each of which is transmitted in response to a corresponding predetermined user action, wherein the number of different interactive service selection signals is fewer than the number of different interactive services, the media receiver including a mapping function for mapping a received interactive service selection signal to a selected one of the different interactive services, such that a corresponding available one of the interactive services is activated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.