Patent ID: 9258512
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for displaying a secondary media stream within an opening in a display of a primary media stream, the method comprising the steps of: a computer receiving selections by a user of a primary media stream and a secondary media stream for concurrent display on a screen; the computer extracting, and presenting to the user, a plurality of inset definitions from metadata associated with the secondary media stream, the plurality of inset definitions specifying a respective plurality of different manners of displaying a perimeter region of the secondary media stream; the computer receiving a selection by a user of one of the presented inset definitions to display the secondary media stream; the computer receiving a request by a user to insert the secondary media stream in the primary media stream, and in response, the computer displaying the secondary media stream, displayed according to the one inset definition, within the opening in the display of the primary media stream, a size of the opening in the display of the primary media stream being substantially the same as a size of the secondary media stream, displayed according to the one inset definition.