Patent ID: 6295057
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A system for selectively displaying Internet content and television programming on a display, comprising:a client, including a display, and channels separately representing individual Internet content and individual television content;a selector for enabling selecting between the channels, wherein when an individual television content channel or an individual Internet content channel is selected the client presents the content associated with the selected channel on the display;a plurality of templates in the individual Internet content channels;an identifying-filtering element for identifying attributes of the contents of a web page comprising aspects of the subject matter of the web page, and for filtering the attributes for each template into a set of topics, links associated with each topic, and objects associated with each link;a presenting element for presenting on the display a dynamic Internet gateway interface which enables selective scrolling through the Internet content channels, the templates, and the topics, links, and objects, comprising a dynamic interface; anda server, including a connecting-downloading element for establishing a data connection with the client and downloading data along the data connection to the client.