Dynamic modification of multimedia content

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for modifying objects associated with the content of a multimedia stream, the computer readable program code means in said computer program product comprising:
• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to effect, receiving a content request, by a remotely located server, including a content specification from at least one of a user and a proxy, wherein the content request includes a multidimensional content specification;
• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to effect, requesting, from the remotely located server, a control specification from a control specification provider based on a comparison of the content request and the content of the multimedia stream;
• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to effect, dynamically modifying at the proxy one or more objects on one or more dimensions of the multimedia stream based on the content specification and the control specification, said dynamically modifying further comprising the step of dynamically modifying a frame of a video according to multiple control specifications and the multidimensional content specification;
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• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to effect, transmitting the modified multimedia stream from the proxy to the user.

In a multimedia network including a multimedia stream, a method of modifying objects associated with content of the multimedia stream, comprising the steps of:

• (a) transmitting a content request including a content specification from at least one of a user and a proxy to a remotely located server, wherein the content request includes a multidimensional content specification;
• (b) determining, in the remotely located server, whether the content of the multimedia stream satisfies the content specification;
• (c) requesting, from the remotely located server, a control specification from a control specification provider based on the result of step (b);
• (d) transmitting the control specification to the proxy responsive to the request of step (c);
• (e) transmitting the multimedia stream to the proxy;
• (f) modifying, in the proxy, one or more objects on one or more dimensions of the multimedia stream based on the content specification and the control specification, said modifying further comprising the step of dynamically modifying a frame of a video according to multiple control specifications and the multidimensional content specification;
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• (g) transmitting the modified multimedia stream to a further proxy.

In a multimedia network including a multimedia stream, a method of modifying objects associated with content of the multimedia stream, comprising the steps of:

• (a) transmitting a content request including a content specification from at least one of a user and a proxy to a remotely located server, wherein the content request includes a multidimensional content specification;
• (b) determining, in the remotely located server, whether the content of the multimedia stream satisfies the content specification;
• (c) requesting, from the remotely located server, a control specification from a control specification provider based on the result of step (b);
• (d) transmitting the control specification from the control specification provider to the user responsive to the request of step (c);
• (e) transmitting the multimedia stream from the server to the user;
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• (f) modifying, in the user, one or more objects on one or more dimensions of the multimedia stream based on the content specification and the control specification, said modifying further comprising the step of dynamically modifying a frame of a video according to multiple control specifications and the multidimensional content specification.