Patent ID: 8893210

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a triggered declarative object (TDO) at a digital television receiver device that carries out a programmed routine when activated; receiving a trigger object associated with the TDO to the digital television receiver device, the trigger object including a back-off parameter indicating an interval of a number of seconds of time from receipt of the trigger object within which the trigger is designated to initiate an operation, wherein the digital television receiver device having a processor that establishes a random time point, after receipt of the trigger object but within the interval, at which the TDO is activated, the digital television receiver device processor executing the operation at the random time point where the executing includes accessing the Internet at the random time point at an address, and the TDO is activated at the random time point within the interval defined by the received back-off parameter after the TDO has been received and stored in the digital television receiver device.