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OwnerCraig Ullman, Jack D. Hidary +1inventors
InventorsCraig Ullman, Jack D. Hidary, Nova T. Spivack
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A system for integrating video programming with the vast information resources of the Internet. A computer-based system receives a video program with embedded uniform resource locators (URLs). The URLs, the effective addresses of locations or Web sites on the Internet, are interpreted by the system and direct the system to the Web site locations to retrieve related Web pages. Upon receipt of the Web pages by the system, the Web pages are synchronized to the video content for display. The video program signal can be displayed on a video window on a conventional personal computer screen. The actual retrieved Web pages are time stamped to also be displayed, on another portion of the display screen, when predetermined related video content is displayed in the video window. As an alternative, the computer-based system receives the URLs directly through an Internet connection, at times specified by TV broadcasters in advance. The system interprets the URLs and retrieves the appropriate Web pages. The Web pages are synchronized to the video content for display in conjunction with a television program being broadcast to the user at that time. This alternative system allows the URLs to be entered for live transmission to the user.
A method for determining whether an address, identifying a source of an online information segment, has been previously received, the method comprising the steps of:
A system for extracting an address embedded in a programming signal, the address identifying a source of an online information segment which relates to the programming signal, the system comprising:
A system as described in claim I1, wherein the address is embedded within a vertical blanking interval of the video signal.
A method, of decoding a programming signal containing an embedded address, the address identifying a source of an online information segment related to the programming signal, the method comprising the steps of:
A computer readable medium containing instructions for extracting an address embedded within a programming signal, the address identifying a source of an online information signal containing an online information segment related to the programming signal, by:
A machine-readable storage medium containing a stored signal carrying video programming and at least one address in respective specified timing relationship with the video programming, wherein the stored signal is useable for presentation of the video programming carried thereon, and the at least one address carried by the signal being useable for retrieving on-line information segments over a network from at least one server on the network, the information segments having content related to the video programming and being displayable in respective predetermined timing relationship with the presentation of the video programming.
A system for reading a storage medium containing a stored signal carrying video programming and at least one address in respective specified timing relationship with the video programming, the at least one address being useable for retrieval of on-line information segments over a network from at least one server on the network, the on-line information segments having content related to the video programming, the system comprising:
A device coupled to a network for receiving a signal carrying video programming and on-line information segments having content related to the video programming, the device comprising:
A device as described in claim 141, wherein the network is the Internet;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.