Patent ID: 7421513

Claim:
A uniform resource identifier (URI) pointer method for the referencing of Motion Picture Coding Expert Group 4 (MPEG-4) data resources carried in an American advanced television systems committee (ATSC) Motion Picture Coding Expert Group 2 (MPEG-2) transport stream file system (TSFS), the method comprising: receiving an MPEG-2 TS, with a packetized ATSC TSFS organized in a hierarchical structure; locating a local identifier (lid) URI, embedded in an Initial Object Descriptor (IOD) of the Transport Stream (TS) and providing a binding name and access scheme to the objects in the ATSC TSFS to locate resources in the TSFS selected from a group including a Binary Format For Scenes (BIFS) scene description stream and an object descriptor stream; in response to the URI, accessing an address; in response to accessing the address, retrieving MPEG-4 resources from the ATSC TSFS; and, decoding the MPEG-4 resources.