Patent ID: 6788709
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A method for information transmission and display, the display being formed by an information display apparatus which display a television program display area and an icon display area on a display device in a first mode and displays the television program display area, the icon display area and an HTML content display area on the display device in a second mode, the method comprising the steps of:transmitting a broadcast signal of a television broadcast program that contains, together with said television broadcast program, HTML content information, time information indicative of time at which said HTML content information is supplied to said display device, and icon information related to said HTML content information and said time information; receiving said broadcast signal; extracting said content information, said time information, and said icon information from said broadcast signal; storing said content information and said icon information thus extracted in a caching hard disk device; based on said time information thus extracted, automatically retrieving content information and said icon information from said caching hard disk device, even without replay request operation at a receiving site; displaying, in both of said first mode and said second mode, a picture of said television broadcast program in said television program display area and said icon information in said icon display area; displaying, is said second mode, at least a part of said HTML content information retrieved from said caching hard disk device in said HTML content display area; and, moving from said first mode to said second mode in response to clicking on an icon in the icon display area, to open the HTML content display area and displaying an HTML content corresponding to said icon that was clicked.