Patent ID: 8863171

Claim:
A method, comprising: pre-delivering a triggered declarative object (TDO) to a television receiver device, the TDO including a programmed routine script that is executed when user activated; the TDO including an announcement definition that defines an announcement that announces to the user, presence of the TDO at an announcement time, an icon or animation that is used in the announcement and timing data that defines a time during which the TDO is user activatable and a screen location for display of at least a portion of an image in the TDO; delivering one or more trigger objects associated with the TDO to the television receiver device, the trigger objects including metadata that defines: the announcement time that defines at least one time at which the announcement of the TDO is to be made, and a screen location for the announcement; announcing the presence of the TDO to the user when both the announcement time is reached and the TDO remains user activatable according to the timing data; receiving a signal from a user by activation of a remote controller command responsive to the announcement indicating that the user wishes to interact with the TDO; and responsive to the signal from the user, launching the TDO.