GB2356319B - Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet

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Publication number
GB2356319B
GB2356319B GB9926294A GB9926294A GB2356319B GB 2356319 B GB2356319 B GB 2356319B GB 9926294 A GB9926294 A GB 9926294A GB 9926294 A GB9926294 A GB 9926294A GB 2356319 B GB2356319 B GB 2356319B
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Prior art keywords
internet
web sites
accessing web
accessing
sites
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Expired - Fee Related
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GB9926294A
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GB9926294D0 (en
GB2356319A (en
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Robert Kaplan
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Priority to GB0006920A priority patent/GB0006920D0/en
Publication of GB2356319A publication Critical patent/GB2356319A/en
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H20/00—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast
    • H04H20/28—Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H20/00—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast
    • H04H20/86—Arrangements characterised by the broadcast information itself
    • H04H20/93—Arrangements characterised by the broadcast information itself which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/235—Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/435—Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
    • H04N21/4622—Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/478—Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
    • H04N21/4782—Web browsing, e.g. WebTV
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/81—Monomedia components thereof
    • H04N21/812—Monomedia components thereof involving advertisement data
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/85—Assembly of content; Generation of multimedia applications
    • H04N21/858—Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/85—Assembly of content; Generation of multimedia applications
    • H04N21/858—Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
    • H04N21/8586—Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot by using a URL
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/08—Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band, e.g. by time division

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Business, Economics & Management (AREA)
  • Marketing (AREA)
  • Data Exchanges In Wide-Area Networks (AREA)
  • Information Transfer Between Computers (AREA)
GB9926294A 1999-11-05 1999-11-05 Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet Expired - Fee Related GB2356319B (en)

Priority Applications (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB9926294A GB2356319B (en) 1999-11-05 1999-11-05 Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet
GB0006920A GB0006920D0 (en) 1999-11-05 2000-03-23 Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB9926294A GB2356319B (en) 1999-11-05 1999-11-05 Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet

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GB9926294D0 GB9926294D0 (en) 2000-01-12
GB2356319A GB2356319A (en) 2001-05-16
GB2356319B true GB2356319B (en) 2002-04-03

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GB0006920A Ceased GB0006920D0 (en) 1999-11-05 2000-03-23 Method and apparatus for accessing web sites on the internet

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GB2365704B (en) * 2000-04-14 2002-11-06 Actv Inc A method and system for providing additional information to a user receiving a video or audio program
GB2369005B (en) 2000-11-10 2004-07-14 Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd Electronic device and method of operation
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US7930716B2 (en) 2002-12-31 2011-04-19 Actv Inc. Techniques for reinsertion of local market advertising in digital video from a bypass source
US20040181817A1 (en) * 2003-03-12 2004-09-16 Larner Joel B. Media control system and method
EP1811678A3 (en) 2006-01-23 2012-08-01 LG Electronics Inc. Radio frequency signal transmission/reception apparatus and radio frequency signal transmission/reception method

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JPH10257455A (en) * 1997-03-17 1998-09-25 Sony Corp Method, device for transmitting url information, method and access to internet, device, system for connecting internet and record medium
EP0899715A2 (en) * 1997-08-27 1999-03-03 Metec MultiMedia Technik GmbH & Co. KG method of operating a multimedia apparatus including a television set and a personal computer
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WO1997033434A1 (en) * 1996-03-08 1997-09-12 Actv, Inc. An integrated interactive video and internet system
US5929849A (en) * 1996-05-02 1999-07-27 Phoenix Technologies, Ltd. Integration of dynamic universal resource locators with television presentations
JPH10257455A (en) * 1997-03-17 1998-09-25 Sony Corp Method, device for transmitting url information, method and access to internet, device, system for connecting internet and record medium
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