Patent ID: 8619117

Claim:
A method for transmission of ticker information comprising: a first terminal generating a first message for signaling to a second terminal for an attempt to establish a multimedia data connection in which at least one of audio data and video data is to be transmitted from the first terminal to the second terminal, the first message generated in accordance with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the first message having data in accordance with Session Description Protocol (SDP) embedded therein that identifies transmission parameters for the multimedia data connection and also includes parameters for transmission of ticker information to the second terminal, the parameters for transmission of the ticker information comprising an address at which ticker information from a ticker device is receivable; the second terminal receiving the first message; in response to receiving the first message, the second terminal sending a second message to the first terminal that accepts establishment of the multimedia data connection; in response to receiving the second message, the first terminal sending a third message to the second terminal to acknowledge receipt of the second message; establishing the multimedia data connection between the first and second terminals such that ticker information from the ticker device is also sent to the second terminal when the multimedia data connection between the first and second terminals is formed such that the second terminal receives audio data and video data from the first terminal and also receives ticker information from the ticker device for displaying ticker information along with displaying video during the established multimedia data connection, the video displayed by the second terminal being based on the video data received from the first terminal; and the second terminal displaying ticker information along with the displayed video based on the video data received from the first terminal such that the displayed ticker information displayed by the second terminal is inserted within the video displayed by the second terminal, the displayed ticker information displayed by the second terminal being based on the ticker information the second terminal received from the ticker device via the address identified in the first message.