Patent ID: 6785902
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A method for displaying a television broadcast containing video images as part of a markup-language document, the method comprising:receiving markup-language data defining the markup-language document; parsing the markup-language data to recover markup-language tags and markup-language attributes that together determine the format and content of the markup-language document, the markup-language document including an object tag in markup language that identifies a URI of a television resource, the television resource identifying the television broadcast source; wherein one or more of the markup-language tags include a z attribute specifying a z position for the corresponding one or more markup-language tags, and wherein at least one of the one or more markup-language tags specifies the z position of the broadcast video images with respect to other parts of the markup-language document; and displaying the video images of the television broadcast in accordance with the relative z position specified in the z attribute of the at least one of the one or more markup-language tags.