Patent ID: 7958264

Claim:
A uniform resource identifier (URI) pointer method for broadcasting pointers to Motion Picture Experts Group 4 (MPEG-4) data in an American advanced television systems committee (ATSC) Motion Picture Experts Group 2 (MPEG-2) transport stream file system (TSFS), the method comprising: embedding hierarchical structure MPEG-4 resources in an ATSC TSFS; packetizing the ATSC TSFS in an MPEG-2 TS; generating a local identifier (lid) URI for accessing MPEG-4 resources located at an address in the ATSC TSFS, embedded in an Initial Object Descriptor (IOD) and providing a binding name and access scheme to objects in the ATSC TSFS to locate resources in the TSFS selected from a group consisting of Binary Format For Scenes (BIFS) description stream and an object descriptor stream; embedding the URI in an MPEG-2 TS; and, broadcasting the MPEG-2 TS, with the packetized ATSC TSFS.