Patent ID: 8001116

Claim:
A process performed by a computing device for displaying a video signal in response to a request from a viewer of said computing device, the process comprising: communicating to a video-overlay server an identifier of said video signal, said identifier provided by said viewer; receiving from said video-overlay server a network address of a video-streaming source providing said video signal and a content directory of said video signal; requesting and receiving said video signal from said video-streaming source; producing a current display of said video signal; and in response to said viewer pointing to a specific object on said current display: interrupting said current display during a time interval following detection of said pointing; adding said time interval to a summation of interruption time, said summation initialized to zero at a starting instant of said current display; determining a pointing time as a time of detecting said pointing derived from a clock of said computing device minus said starting instant of said current display minus said summation; and accessing said content directory to retrieve information specific to said pointing time.