Patent ID: 7149755
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: accessing a video file, media objects, and links, wherein the video file contains a sequence of full-motion video frames, each of the media objects comprises respective content corresponding to at least one of visual content and audio content, and each of the links connects a respective index value associated with a respective one of the video frames with an address of a corresponding one of the media objects; rendering the video frames of the video file in sequence in a region of a display; and during the rendering of each of the video frames connected to a corresponding one of the media objects by a respective one of the links, automatically rendering the respective content of the corresponding media object contemporaneously with the rendering of the connected video frame, wherein the automatically rendering comprises rendering the visual content of respective ones of the corresponding media objects in regions of the display outside the region of the display where the video frames are being rendered.