Patent ID: 7089579
Filing Date: 2006-08-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. In a broadcast communication network including a broadcasting station for transmitting on a broadcast medium, and a set-top decoder coupled to said broadcast medium, said broadcasting station including an Internet access server for retrieving World Wide Web pages, wherein at least a given World Wide Web page contains a given URL corresponding to streaming video in a first data format, said broadcast communications network further including a multi-channel digital television signal, each program channel of said multi-channel digital television signal being identified by a respective program ID, a method for displaying said given World Wide Web page containing said streaming video at said set-top decoder, said method comprising: receiving digital data in a standard Internet Protocol over the Internet, said digital data being derived from said given World Wide Web page associated with said streaming video; dividing said digital data in said standard Internet Protocol into a plurality of digital data packets while preserving said standard Internet Protocol; mapping said plurality of digital data packets to the MPEG data packets of an MPEG data stream; storing said streaming video in said first data format corresponding to said given URL at said broadcasting station; transcoding said streaming video from said first data format into an MPEG digital video format at said broadcasting station to form MPEG streaming video; transmitting said MPEG data packets in said MPEG data stream over said broadcast communication network; transmitting said MPEG streaming video in said MPEG digital video format in a given program ID of said multi-channel digital television signal over said broadcast communication network; and at said set-top decoder, receiving said multi-channel digital television signal; receiving said MPEG data stream containing said MPEG data packets and said plurality of digital data packets at said set-top decoder to recover said digital data in standard Internet Protocol; displaying said digital data in standard Internet Protocol at said set-top decoder, said digital data corresponding to said given World Wide Web page containing said given URL; selecting said given URL; selecting, responsive to selection of said given URL, said given program ID corresponding to said MPEG streaming video; and displaying said MPEG streaming video corresponding to said given program ID, whereby said digital data corresponding to said given World Wide Web page is broadcast in said standard Internet Protocol format, and said streaming video portion corresponding to said given World Wide Web page is broadcast in said MPEG digital video format.