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Interactive communication system for communicating video game and karaoke software
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Inventors: Okamoto, Takeya;
Assignee: ADC Technology Inc. (Nagoya, JP)
Primary Examiner: Cheng; Joe H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Davis & Bujold, PLLC
A communication system is proposed for transmitting at least one of the data, the program, and a combination of them from a host facility to a communicator such as a communication terminal device. In this communication system, the data or the program becomes unable to be used when a predetermined time has elapsed after it is transmitted from the host facility to the communicator. This communication system is provided with the function of giving a warning before the use of the transmission becomes unable and the function of resuming the use in accordance with the user's instruction even after the use becomes unable. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Wherefore, an object of this invention is to provide an interactive communication system in which video game and karaoke software is transmitted via communication lines from a host facility to a calling communication terminal device at each individual home.
In order to attain the stated object, a communication terminal device according to the present invention includes communication means, connected to communication lines, for sending out or receiving data, and a computer for outputting control instructions to the communication means, and outputting or inputting data to or from the communication lines via the communication means.
The communication terminal device further includes temporary storage means for temporarily storing the data inputted from the communication lines if the data inputted is game data including video information or video plus audio information, and game data outputting means included in the computer, for outputting, if the data stored in the temporary storage means is game data, the game data to integral or external display means, and, if the game data also includes audio information, to integral or external sound generating means.
In this way, the computer controls the communication means by supplying control instructions thereto.
Data is thus sent out, under the control by the computer, via the communication means and the communication lines, or received via the communication lines and the communication means.
From another aspect of the invention, the computer may also include a printer, provided on the computer or provided externally, whereby, the data stored in the computer can be printed.
For example, when the player wishes to quit game play, the current status of the game progress, e.
g.
which player corresponds to which character in the game, or the top scorer at the time, can be stored.
When resuming the game, the player can refer to the printed data.
From still another aspect of the invention, a communication system according to the present invention includes the above described communication terminal device and a host facility intercommunicably connected to the communication terminal device
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