Patent ID: 7389035
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A stream processing system comprising: a contents storage device operable to store a plurality of video contents; a contents production device including a user interface to: a contents server connected to said contents storage device and operable to provide a real video stream by reading said composite content from said contents storage device, parsing said composite content, reading the partial video streams from said contents storage device based on the respective virtual video streams of said composite content as parsed, and sequentially and continuously outputting the partial video streams as said real video stream together with said meta information items based on the respective virtual video streams of said composite content as parsed; and a client machine connected to said contents server and operable to receive said real video stream from said contents server and play back said real video stream to a user of said client machine; wherein each of said meta information items contains a title, a text, keywords, and link information, said text describing a content of the partial video stream corresponding to said each of said meta information items, wherein said client machine is operable to sequentially play back the partial video stream of each of said video contents and then play back the partial video stream of a next one of said video contents continuously from the end time of said each of said video contents, to the user of said client machine, such that said composite content is played back in the same manner as an individual video content, and wherein said client machine is operable to display, when one of the partial video streams is displayed during playing back said real video stream, one of said meta information items corresponding to said one of the partial video streams such that, while viewing the partial video stream, the user of said client machine can read said text as a reference text of said one of the partial video streams and select said link information to view another content connected by said link as reference information of said one of the partial video streams.