REMOTE MANUAL TELEVISION CONTROLLERS

Brand Owner Address Description
PORTAL TV ANSWER, INC. 1941 ROLAND CLARKE PLACE RESTON VA 22091 remote manual television controllers; interactive controllers for television sets at subscriber locations; directional antennas; digital radio transmitters and transceivers, television studio equipment, namely controllers and switches for television video signals, radio signal relays and microwave antennas; satellite transceivers; satellite based video signal switches; television broadcasting transmitters and antennas; TV transmitters and transceivers; mobile TV transmitters, receivers and controllers; computers for control of television systems; television control software; microwave digital transmitters for transmission of television control signals; subscriber signal encoders and decoders; radio and TV message encryption apparatus; facsimile receivers and transmitters; graphic pattern and telegram display and printing apparatus; and delectronic computer controlled billing, pricing and accounting apparatus for subscriber, vendor and network locations;
 

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Technical Examples
  1. An improved remote control that includes a manual alert mechanism for alerting and providing channel information to television viewer when a regularly viewed television program is about to begin. The improved remote control preferably includes an alerting mechanism having an automatic alert mode whereby, in addition to providing the audible and visual alerting alarms and the channel information of the manual alert mechanism, the automatic alert mode causes the remote control to turn on the television if it is not currently on and to tune the television to the channel of the desired program. In addition, if desired, the improved remote control includes a microprocessor circuit that includes a manual programming mode for entering time, day and channel information to receive an alert for a desired program, and an automatic program mode that compares the viewing habits of the remote control users to one or more predetermined viewing patterns that are stored in the microprocessor circuit and that automatically programs a time, day and channel alerting event when the user's viewing habits match with one of the predetermined viewing patterns.