Patent ID: 8202167

Claim:
A method for use by a video player using a medium including a video having a plurality of segments in a sequential playback order, the video player having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode, the method comprising: activating the non-interactive mode for playing the video in the sequential playback order by: receiving the plurality of segments of the video in the sequential playback order by a media interface of the video player; ignoring segment identifiers; and displaying each of the plurality of segments of the video in the sequential playback order by the video player; activating the interactive mode of the video player for playing a game using the video by: starting to detect the segment identifiers in response to the activating of the interactive mode; determining whether a user playing the game has successfully hit a target in the game; identifying, based on the determining, a first segment of the plurality of segments of the video using one or more of the segment identifiers to provide a first identified segment of the video; skipping a display of the first identified segment of the video; identifying, based on the determining, a second segment of the plurality of segments of the video using one or more of the segment identifiers to provide a second identified segment of the video; and displaying the second identified segment of the video.