Patent ID: 6356921
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of providing media presentations from a server to a user's terminal over a network comprising:maintaining in a single file a presentation containing data for presenting multiple media descriptions of an object contained in a plurality of data frames interspersed with software segments for use in the server and the user's terminal to render the presentation; accessing the file at a request from a user's terminal separating the software segments from the data frames; transmitting to the user's terminal at least two data frames, one being a file header frame identifying the presentation and another being one containing one of the media descriptions of the object; providing certain of the software segments to the user's terminal for interpreting the file header frame and rendering the one media description; using meta data frames to establish a semantic relationship that allows dynamic delivery of semantically related data segments; and retaining other data frames and related software segments of the presentation at the server until requested by the user's terminal.