Patent ID: 8843959

Claim:
A method for providing linked content within an electronic display, the method comprising: receiving the linked content, including link information associated with one or more viewable, automatically tracked images within the linked content; displaying the linked content on a display device; enabling manipulation of a selecting affordance that enables individual identification of specific ones of the viewable, automatically tracked images within the linked content displayed on the display device; wherein the selecting affordance is associated with a dynamic link object which is placed at a position that is determined based on automatic object recognition and tracking of a corresponding viewable image; in response to a selection via the selecting affordance, of one of the viewable, automatically tracked images with an associated link information: (a) automatically providing additional information corresponding to the selected viewable, automatically tracked image, wherein the additional information is hidden from view when the selected viewable, automatically tracked image is not currently being selected by the selecting affordance; and (b) automatically generating object position and location within a video frame of an image from an extracted image of the object of one or more functional features associated with the object; enabling access, via a secondary source, to third party information related to the selected viewable image when a link corresponding to the selected viewable, automatically tracked image is subsequently selected; wherein use of one or more extracted image and object(s) from one video frame or a subset of video frames is used in an object recognition procedure to automatically identify the object in other frames and automatically generate the position of the identified object in the other frames; determining a first link congestion factor that provides a measure of the spacing of a collection of interactive links within the video frame; and in response to a determination that the first link congestion factor reaches a high link congestion factor, automatically providing a second display window that enables components corresponding to the collection of interactive links to be re-sized to provide a second link congestion factor to enable a user to identify and select between distinguishable interactive links.