Response capacity management in interactive broadcast systems by periodic reconfiguration of response priorities

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A system and method allow for the periodic re-configuring of broadcast receivers to control their storage of responses to interactive applications during a, polling period. A broadcast server maintains a database of interactive applications, each preferably associated with a program that will be broadcast. When the program, is broadcast, an interactive application is inserted into the broadcast feed and, delivered to a broadcast receiver such as a television set-top box. The broadcast, receiver includes a processor memory, and other hardware necessary to execute the, interactive application. When executed the interactive application generates a, response which is transmitted to a …