Patents Assigned to Response Reward Systems, L.C.
  • Evaluation of responses of participatory broadcast audience with prediction of winning contestants; monitoring, checking and controlling of wagering, and automatic crediting and couponing
    Patent number: 6443840
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, include an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, simulcast, or time-multiplexed with a television. At each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a situation presented in the television program by entering a response on a keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Response Reward Systems, L.C.
    Inventor: Henry Von Kohorn
  • System and method of playing games and rewarding successful players
    Patent number: 5916024
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, or time-multiplexed with television signals. At each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a task or situation presented in the television program by entering a response vocally or on a keyboard. The system may include a video game machine suitable for playing commercially available games such as an NINTENDO game or a SEGA game, and wherein such game may be played back from a recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Response Reward Systems, L.C.
    Inventor: Henry Von Kohorn
  • Central and remote evaluation of responses of participatory broadcast audience with automatic crediting and couponing
    Patent number: 5759101
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, simulcast, or time-multiplexed with a television. At each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a situation presented in the television program by entering a response on a keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Response Reward Systems L.C.
    Inventor: Henry Von Kohorn
  • System and method of communication with authenticated wagering participation
    Patent number: 5713795
    Abstract: A system and method for wagering and for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, or time-multiplexed with a television. At each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a situation presented in the television program by entering a response on a keyboard. The system includes, at each remote receiving station, a memory responsive to the instructional signal for storing acceptable responses, a comparison circuit for comparing responses entered at the keyboard with those stored in the memory, circuitry for scoring responses in accordance with commands from the instructional signal, and a recording device for providing a permanent record of the audience score at the remote station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Response Reward Systems L.C.
    Inventor: Henry Von Kohorn
  • System and method for playing games and rewarding successful players
    Patent number: 5697844
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, or time-multiplexed with television signals. At each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a task or situation presented in the television program by entering a response vocally or on a keyboard. The system may include a video game machine suitable for playing commercially available games such as an NINTENDO game or a SEGA game, and wherein such game may be played back from a recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Response Reward Systems, L.C.
    Inventor: Henry Von Kohorn
  • Generation of enlarged participatory broadcast audience
    Patent number: 5508731
    Abstract: A system and method for wagering and for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an instructional signal modulated onto a signal transmitted concurrently with the television program, or time-multiplexed with a television. At each of a plurality of remote receiving stations, one or more members of a remote audience has the opportunity to respond to a situation presented in the television program by entering a response on a keyboard. The system includes, at each remote receiving station, a response unit having a memory responsive to the instructional signal for storing acceptable responses, a comparison circuit for comparing responses entered at the keyboard with those stored in the memory, circuitry for scoring responses in accordance with commands from the instructional signal, and a recording device for providing a permanent record of the audience score at the remote station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Response Reward Systems L.C.
    Inventor: Henry V. Kohorn