Patent ID: 7080152

Claim:
A method of broadcasting user controls of streaming digital content from a multiplicity of sources of digital information to a multiplicity of client devices, the method is implemented in conjunction with a network of digital computers, at least one of the digital computers comprising a content server upon which the steps of the method are implemented in a computer memory and upon at least one computer processor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving from a remote director a director instruction, the director instruction comprising an identification of a selected user control and a director URL that identifies a user control selection routine; extracting, in dependence upon the director instruction, from a store of user controls, the identified selected user control; identifying, in dependence upon the director instruction, a data communications program that administers data communications between the content server and a client device, including executing the user control selection routine identified by the director URL; encoding through the data communications program, in dependence upon the selected user control, a new HTML document; and downloading, through the identified data communications program, the new HTML document to the client device.