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Information acquisition system

US5363433A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 27, 1992
Grant dateNov 8, 1994
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Expiry dateApr 27, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M11/00
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An information acquisition system for acquiring information which includes responses in answer to questions which participants have been asked by a radio or television broadcast program includes terminal equipment for inputting a response from a participant, an ATM network for transmitting, to a broadcasting station, information which includes the response inputted from the terminal equipment, network terminating equipment provided in the broadcasting station and connected to a predetermined ATM exchange in the ATM network, and an information acquisition unit, which is connected to the network terminating equipment, for receiving, collecting and totalizing the information, which includes the response inputted from the terminal equipment, via the ATM network and the network terminating equipment.

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