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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,875,215 B2 Reisman (45) Date of Patent: *Oct USOO88752.15B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,875,215 B2 Reisman (45) Date of Patent: *Oct. 28, 2014 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING (58) Field of Classification Search USING ALTERNATIVE LINKBASES USPC .................. 725/110, 112–113, 133, 141, 153 See application file for complete search history. (71) Applicant: Convergent Media Solutions LLC, Plano, TX (US) (56) References Cited (72) Inventor: Richard Reisman, New York, NY (US) U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (73) Assignee: Convergent Media Solutions LLC, 4,706,121 A 1 1/1987 Young Plano, TX (US) 4,807,031 A 2/1989 Broughton et al. (Continued) (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. EP 106.1490 A2 12/2000 This patent is Subject to a terminal dis GB 2348587 A 10, 2000 claimer. (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 14/148,654 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) Filed: Jan. 6, 2014 Eonline Readability, Screenshot image of non-printable page from www.metatv.com, printed Jul. 1101. (65) Prior Publication Data (Continued) US 2014/O 1301.05 A1 May 8, 2014 Primary Examiner —Nathan Flynn Related U.S. Application Data Assistant Examiner — Sumaiya A Chowdhury (63) Continuation of application No. 13/662.246, filed on (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Berkeley Law & Oct. 26, 2012, now Pat. No. 8,631,456, which is a Technology Group, LLP (Continued) (57) ABSTRACT Systems and methods for navigating hypermedia using mul (51) Int. C. tiple coordinated input/output device sets. Disclosed systems HO)4N 7/173 (2011.01) and methods allow a user and/or an author to control what H04N 7/16 (2011.01) resources are presented on which device sets (whether they (Continued) are integrated or not), and provide for coordinating browsing (52) U.S. C. activities to enable such a user interface to be employed CPC ....... H04N 2 1/42204 (2013.01); H04N 2 1/858 across multiple independent systems. Disclosed systems and (2013.01); H04N21/.482 (2013.01); H04N methods also support new and enriched aspects and applica 2 I/4622 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01); tions of hypermedia browsing and related business activities. (Continued) 30 Claims, 10 Drawing Sheets SYSTEMS - 1CO CONTENT DEWIC SES commectivity - 110 in ROACAST SATES CABLE WDEO ON DEMAND STREAMING MDA WEB WREESSPORTALS TRANSACONS WRESS AND THE LIKE NWORK 12 LOCAL SCRACS so : SYSTEM EMENTS US 8,875,215 B2 Page 2 Related U.S. Application Data (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/4113 (2013.01); H04N 2 1/4358 (2013.01); continuation of application No. 13/094.505, filed on H04N 2 1/243363 (2013.01); H04N21/43637 Apr. 26, 2011, now Pat. No. 8,813,125, which is a (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N continuation of application No. 10/434,032, filed on 21/482.1 (2013.01); G06F 22 16/15 (2013.01); May 8, 2003, now Pat. No. 7.987,491. 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