Patent ID: 7979886

Claim:
A method performed at a multimedia presentation manager for transmitting a self-contained multimedia presentation as one unit, said multimedia presentation comprising a plurality of media objects, said method comprising: organizing said plurality of media objects in a multimedia container, said media objects comprising one or a combination of dynamic media objects in tracks and static media files, wherein said step of organizing the media objects comprises said communication system organizing the media objects as interleaved continuous fragments of data in the multimedia container; organizing, in said multimedia container, identifiers referring to each of said plurality of media objects; providing, in said multimedia container, an identifiable scene description file as a starting file for coordinating the plurality of media objects based on said identifiers, to enable identification of a start of said multimedia presentation and dependencies between said plurality of media objects of said multimedia presentation; and transmitting said multimedia container and the incorporated multimedia presentation, wherein said step of organizing, in said multimedia container, identifiers referring to each of said plurality of media objects comprises: organizing and locating said identifiers referring to said dynamic media objects in a first section of said multimedia container; and organizing and locating said identifiers referring to said static media files in a second section of said multimedia container different from said first section, wherein said step of organizing said plurality of media objects in said multimedia container comprises organizing and locating said interleaved media objects in a third section of said multimedia container different from said first and second sections, and wherein said step of providing said scene description file comprises treating said scene description file as a static file and including said scene description file in said second section of said multimedia container.