Patent ID: 7559073
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving and storing a plurality of icons on a receiver, each icon indicative of a particular type of content that may be included in ancillary information associated with video data; before receiving the ancillary information, determining which icons in the plurality of icons have been pre-selected by a user, the pre-selected icons identifying content of the ancillary information that the user is interested in knowing about; receiving, on the receiver, video data and the ancillary information associated with said video data, the ancillary in formation including a local identifier that points to a location storing one of the icons in the plurality of icons; and if the icon in the plurality of icons pointed to by the local identifier corresponds to a pre-selected icon, displaying the pre-selected icon that is pointed to by the local identifier indicative of at least a part of the content included in said ancillary information, otherwise if the icon in the plurality of icons pointed to by the local identifier corresponds to an icon that was not pre-selected, not displaying the icon of the plurality of icons that was not preselected.