The use of the magazine method in interactive videotex through intelligent videotex decoders*

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sebestyén, István

Affiliations: Institute for Information Processing, Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Note: [*] Version of a paper to be presented at Comnet '85, Budapest, 4–7 October 1985. ISU gratefully acknowledges the agreement of the International Federation for Information Processing to the publication of the text which appears here.

Abstract: This paper is based on development work at the Technical University of Graz implemented for the CEPT videotex environment. The work was supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research. A so-called ‘magazine method’ is used to download a prepared magazine of some ten to one hundred single information frames from a central videotex system into the MUPID II intelligent videotex decoder for subsequent offline information retrieval. The method leads to substantial savings in telecommunication costs, improves the speed of data transmission over the videotex network, and potentially enables the use of more sophisticated data-base search methods than used in classical videotex systems.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1985-5602

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 291-303, 1985