Appeal No. 2006-0362
Application No. 09/455,201
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a system for combining
video signals in MPEG digital format with Internet World-Wide Web
pages in HTML format (specification, page 1).
Claim 1 is representative of the invention, and is reproduced as
follows:
1. In a broadcast communication network including a
broadcasting station for transmitting on a broadcast medium, and
a set-top decoder coupled to said broadcast medium, said
broadcasting station including an Internet access server for
retrieving World Wide Web pages, wherein at least a given World
Wide Web page contains a given URL corresponding to streaming
video in a first data format, said broadcast communications
network further including a multi-channel digital television
signal, each program channel of said multi-channel digital
television signal being identified by a respective program ID, a
method for displaying said given World Wide Web page containing
said streaming video at said set-top decoder, said method
comprising:
receiving digital data in a standard Internet Protocol over the
Internet, said digital data being derived from said given World
Wide Web page associated with said streaming video;
dividing said digital data in said standard Internet Protocol
into a plurality of digital data packets while preserving said
standard Internet Protocol;
mapping said plurality of digital data packets to the MPEG data
packets of an MPEG data stream;
storing said streaming video in said first data format
corresponding to said given URL at said broadcasting station;
transcoding said streaming video from said first data format into
an MPEG digital video format at said broadcasting station to form
MPEG streaming video;
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