Patent ID: 7075557

Claim:
A method of transmitting on-screen-display graphics data from a source device to a display device comprising: a. generating on-screen-display graphics to be displayed on the display device; b. combining the on-screen-display graphics into a stream of isochronous data packets, each including an address value corresponding to a memory location within the display device; c. transmitting the isochronous data packets from the source device to the display device over an isochronous channel; d. receiving the isochronous data packets at the display device; e. storing data included within each of the isochronous data packets at the memory location specified by the address value included within the isochronous data packet; f. compressing the on-screen-display graphics before the isochronous data packets are formed; and g. decompressing the data at the display device before the storing is completed.