Patent ID: 7734804

Claim:
A method for obtaining streaming content from a processing device network, comprising the steps of: requesting an interface program from a first processing device in the processing device network; downloading the interface program to a second processing device in the processing device network; displaying a user interface on a display of the second processing device; requesting by the interface program a streaming media file from a third processing device on the processing device network; downloading the streaming media file to the second processing device, wherein the streaming media file includes an embedded metadata time code; detecting the embedded metadata time code; spawning a Common Gateway Interface process by the interface program responsive to the embedded metadata time code; parsing the embedded metadata time code into a plurality of code segments by the Common Gateway Interface process; querying a memory location in a data store responsive to a code segment in the plurality of code segments; responding to rules in the memory location; and modifying the displayed user interface without requiring re-encoding and/or reindexing the streaming media file.