Patent ID: 7600241

Claim:
A method for enabling the display of a television broadcast containing video images as part of a markup-language document, the method comprising one or more microprocessors performing the following: incorporating markup-language tags and markup-language attributes into a mark-up language document that together determine the format and content of the markup-language document; and incorporating an object tag into the markup-language document that identifies a URI of a television resource, the television resource identifying a television broadcast source; wherein one or more of the markup-language tags include a z attribute specifying a z position for the corresponding one or more markup-language tags, and wherein at least one of the one or more markup-language tags specifies the z position of the broadcast video images to be with respect to other parts of the markup-language document and wherein the video images of the television broadcast are displayed in accordance with the relative z position specified in the z attribute of the at least one of the one or more mark-up tags.