Patent ID: 7716715

Claim:
An interactive media system includes means for receiving or downloading a web page, which includes one or more hypertext links, from a host center through a wired or wireless connection, or Internet; means for displaying the web page; a remote controller for allowing users to control the system remotely; wherein the said device further includes: means for scanning the received web page contents and reading the hypertext links and the screen positions for the links in the page; means for generating and assigning an order number or letter to each of the read links in the page; means for storing the read links, the corresponding assigned numbers or letters, and the corresponding screen position of the assigned numbers or letters for the links; means for processing to display or to hide the order numbers or letters near the corresponding links when web page is displayed; wherein said remote controller further includes one or more number or letter keys for allowing users to select the order numbers or letters to switch the current web page to the next page pointed by the corresponding link, and a switch button for controlling to hide or to display said order numbers or letters for said hypertext links on the displaying means; and said system further includes means for controlling said processing means to hide or display the order numbers or letters based on user's control through said switch button in the remote controller; and means for, in respond to the order number or letter selected users through the remote controller, to find the corresponding hypertext link and switch the current display web page to the hypertext link pointed web page.