Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Remote data accessing – Accessing a remote server
Patent
1996-12-23
1999-08-03
Asta, Frank J.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Remote data accessing
Accessing a remote server
709201, 709202, 709203, 709204, 709206, 709218, 709217, 707104, 707 10, 348 13, 348 12, 348 7, 348 8, 348 10, 455 51, 455 41, 455 42, 455 62, 455 63, G06F 1730
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ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for linking real-time data with audiovisual content to enable a user to make selections, manipulate data, and to execute functions interactively through an audiovisual display unit based upon audiovisual content being displayed at the time. Audiovisual content is synchronized with the available interactive functions so that the user has the ability to interact with and perform functions related to the audiovisual content being shown at the time. In a preferred embodiment, actionable events in audiovisual programs are synchronized with associated overlay functions and interface data. A method is provided to make overlay functions available to the user through an audiovisual display during the actionable events that occur in a program being viewed by the user. A user interface for each overlay function that may be performed, which user interface may or may not be visible to the user, is overlaid on and synchronized with the program being shown. Interaction with selections may be made using any of several known methods such as a screen menu or a cursor controlled by a remote control device.
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Gerba George
Lambert Robert E.
Meiseles Howard
Nichols Mike
Asta Frank J.
The Walt Disney Corporation
Thomson William D.
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