Patent ID: 8350961
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for downloading and customizing Internet content to one or more display image areas of a display device, while simultaneously displaying television content comprising a customized computer program that performs the steps of: enabling access to one or more content servers, wherein the one or more content servers includes a plurality of Internet content, the plurality of Internet content comprising Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, documents in formats including HyperText Markup Language (HTML), images in formats including Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), JPEG2000, Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG), and videos in formats including Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); validating information of a user to permit a request to access the plurality of Internet content; receiving a selection of one or more Internet content chosen from the plurality of the Internet content to obtain selected Internet content; downloading the selected Internet content from the one or more content servers over an Internet connection; customizing the selected Internet content by recreating the selected Internet content specific to the user to obtain customized Internet content, the customized Internet content including text, files, movies, graphics, clip art, photos, videos, sounds, advertisements, pictures, images, podcasts, way files, hyperlinks, code, animations, instant messaging, real-time informational ticker, and gaming; blending the selected Internet content with television content into a video signal; assembling the video signal into a frame buffer; reading the frame buffer; formatting the video signal into a high resolution video signal; sending the high resolution video signal over an interface; and illustrating the high resolution video signal on a display device, wherein the high resolution video signal includes the simultaneous display of the customized Internet content and the television content each presented on the display device in image areas separate and apart from one another.