Patent ID: 6912726

Claim:
A method for representing hyperlinks in frames of video stored in a first file, the method comprising: storing in a second file, different from said first file, information defining at least one hot region in said frames of video stored in said first file, wherein said second file allows said information to be at least one of accessed, manipulated, stored, and transmitted separate from and without having access to said first file, said second file comprising a header information followed by a sequential listing of hot objects in the hot regions in said frames of video in said first file, wherein each hot object listing further comprises a sequential listing of identifiers enclosed by an identification element and a trailer element, and each identifier further comprises: a bit B(j,k) specifying whether a k-th key frame of a j-th object comprises an end frame; a number N(j,k) identifying a frame number of the k-th key frame of the j-th object; and a listing of coordinates of said hot regions.