Abstract: An information management device that is capable of efficiently using the different components that are required to perform information detection, recording and transmission that are necessary for a user with the efficient use of the limited memory resources available. Management of the memory resources permits a user to hold the information that he or she deems important for a predetermined amount of time. Preprogrammed profiles include one or more queries of different scope that are constantly compared to the information being received. If there are matches, predetermined blocks of information are transferred from a buffered section of the memory to a temporary section for additional processing, such as indexing. The device also includes a circuit for storing audio, receiving commercial broadcast signals, input devices such as a keyboard, an acoustic telephone dialer, an LCD display and alarms to alert the user that predetermined conditions are met.

Abstract: A digital, interactive communication system designed to provide a plurality of remote subscribers with any one of a variety of stored information service software packages through the use of a home computing assembly maintained within the subscriber's home and structured to display video as well as generating audio on a standard television receiver. A bi-directional communication link is established over telephone lines between the home computing assembly and a central remote information storage center wherein a selected one of the variety of information services is transmitted as a modulated carrier to the subscriber. Information service selection is controlled by a remote information storage center executive software program. Automatic billing is performed by computing equipment maintained in the remote information storage center and transmitted to a headquarters which also receives diagnostic messages associated with the remote information center and/or the associated plurality of home computing elements.

Abstract: A digital, interactive communication system designed to provide a plurality of remote subscribers with any one of a plurality of stored video games or like software packages through the use of a home computing assembly maintained within the subscriber's home and structured to display video as well as generating audio on a standard television receiver and further incorporating the ability to utilize contemporary video gaming control devices for subscriber program interaction. A bi-directional communication link is established over the telephone lines between the home computing assembly and the central remote game storage center wherein the software programs are transmitted as a modulated carrier to the subscriber. Program selection is controlled by a remote game storage center executive software program.