Patents Assigned to David P. Gordon
  • Patent number: 4751578
    Abstract: The electronically controllable system of the invention for viewing on a television, updateable television programming information comprises a microcontroller which is partially controllable by remote control system and is updateable via telephone link, magnetic cards or floppy disks, or television or radio subcarrier, the microcontroller including input/output interfaces, a microprocessor and a RAM; a mixer for mixing a regularly received television signal with the signal generated by the microcontroller; an RF converter for receiving the radio frequency information from the mixer, microcontroller, and television antennae and properly converting the information into information which may be sent to the television; and a remote control system for permitting the viewer to direct the microcontroller to perform searches on information contained in the RAM so as to provide on the television screen in a chosen format, subsets of information desired by the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: David P. Gordon
    Inventors: Eli Reiter, Michael H. Zemering, Frank Shannon