Patent ID: 6263344
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: G11B,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for decoding codes in a data file representative of a screen of information and hypertext selections, the codes being in a simplified intermediate object-specification language generated from codes originally described in Hyper Text Mark-up Language, said simplified intermediate object-specification language being conducive for processing on a minimal featured hardware platform having a removable media player and one or more processors for processing codes in said simplified intermediate object-specification language, comprising the steps of:a. retrieving a predesignated data file on a removable media containing codes describing objects in an intermediate language format, wherein said intermediate language format provides for description of objects by specifying object type, object size, and object information;b. retrieving an object from said file;c. identifying the object type of said retrieved object;d. processing said object in accordance with the object type of said object; ande. repeating steps b through d until all objects in said file are processed.