Patent ID: 8345050

Claim:
A method, performed by at least one machine, for rendering temporal sequence presentation data in a machine-implemented rendering system, the temporal sequence presentation data being tangibly stored in a first computer-readable medium, the method comprising steps of: (A) maintaining a value of a presentation time parameter tangibly stored in a second computer-readable medium and representing an amount of time elapsed during rendering of a portion of the temporal sequence presentation data; (B) providing the value of the presentation time parameter to a first component of the rendering system; (C) maintaining a value of a data time parameter tangibly stored in a third computer-readable medium and representing an amount of time required by the rendering system to render the portion of the temporal sequence presentation data at a default presentation rate; (D) providing the value of the data time parameter to a second component of the rendering system; wherein the value of the presentation time parameter is not equal to the value of the data time parameter; and (E) rendering at least a part of the temporal sequence presentation data using time-scale modification (TSM).