Patent ID: 8556712

Claim:
An interactive system, comprising: a presentation device for presenting interactive content, an input device for controlling a presentation parameter of a content object of the interactive content in accordance with a known behavior description of said content object, at least one token representing a content object, the at least one token storing one of an identification and a full description of the content object in a digital memory of the token, said full description comprising at least one of visual and audio appearance of said content object and a behavior of said content object responsive to events associated with said content object, association means for associating said token with said input device, and means for selecting the content object represented by the token as the content object to be controlled by the input device in response to said association and transferring said full description of said content object to said presentation device, which is adapted to generate a presentation of said content object in one of a plurality of layers, wherein content objects in a same one of said plurality of layers interact with each other and content objects in different layers overlap, wherein the presentation of said content object is based on whether said content object is compatible with a current presentation, and wherein when said content object is not compatible with the current presentation, the presentation device changes the current presentation to a presentation with which said content object is compatible.