Patent ID: 8860882

Claim:
A system for constructing seamlessly viewable multimedia content from selectably presentable multimedia content blocks, the system comprising: a block definition module for facilitating creation and modification, by a user, of a plurality of selectably presentable multimedia content blocks, each content block comprising (i) multimedia content comprising a video stream and an audio stream and (ii) an interactive layer, the block definition module comprising: a media assignment submodule for associating a segment comprising synchronized audio and video with at least one of the content blocks; a block linking submodule for creating a traversable video tree by forming one or more seamless connections between the at least one content block and one or more other content blocks, wherein a transition between the audio and video streams of the connected blocks during playback of the video tree occurs substantially without interruption and; a layer submodule for associating an interactive layer with the at least one content block, the layer comprising controls for interacting with the multimedia content.