Patent ID: 6785905
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A television receiver comprising:a receiving means for receiving a television broadcast signal including television program signals and multimedia data files including hyper text data, the multimedia data files relating to a television program guide, said hyper text data including address information which designates a linked multimedia data file; an extraction means for extracting said multimedia data files from the received television broadcast signal; a connect means for connecting to a network in order to get control signals for controlling an execution of a process; a storage means for storing the extracted multimedia data files and said linked multimedia data file; a processing means for retrieving at least one of the stored multimedia data files from said storage means, and for interpreting the retrieved at least one of said multimedia data files and generating a display signal including said television program guide and link portions based on said hyper text data; and a user interface means for pointing to the displayed link portions, wherein said processing means recognizes said address information of each pointed to link portion, retrieves said linked multimedia data file corresponding to the recognized address information from said storage means, and interprets the retrieved linked multimedia data file and generates said display signal.