Patent ID: 7734997
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A computerized method comprising: accessing a content description of a media content, the content description containing a plurality of descriptor values, each descriptor value describing a timed event in the media content; and generating, by a computer, for transmission to a media presentation device, a set of sync events from the content description, wherein the set of sync events is used by the media presentation device to synchronize transmission of the descriptor values with presentation of the timed events by the media presentation device, each sync event logically relating a timed event and a temporal interval that defines an occurrence of the timed event in the media content, wherein the set of sync events is subsequently transmitted as a table to the media presentation device for access by a user to control the presentation of the timed events and the transmission of the descriptor values, the table ordered according to fields in the sync events.