Patent ID: 7594164

Claim:
A method for a hypermedia communication system comprising the steps of: generating a hypermedia document by presenting the hypermedia document in a hypermedia description at a hypermedia server; requesting the hypermedia document at a hypermedia client; deploying the hypermedia description from the hypermedia server to said hypermedia client; and presenting the hypermedia document by translating the hypermedia description, wherein said hypermedia description comprising first expression means for a first reference from an atemporal hypermedia object to a first referred hypermedia object, and second expression means for a second reference from a temporal hypermedia object to a second referred hypermedia object, wherein the temporal hypermedia object comprises a plurality of elements that change on a time axis, wherein the second reference comprises references with respect to each of the plurality of elements of the temporal hypermedia object, and wherein said method comprises the steps of generating, requesting, deploying, and presenting hypermedia document uniformly, wherein at least one of the first and second references is a hyperlink to the first and second referred hypermedia objects, respectively, wherein the temporal hypermedia object comprises a video, and wherein each of the plurality of elements is a strand and comprises a plurality of frames.