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USOO8914840B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,914,840 B2 Reisman (45) Date of Patent: *Dec. 16, 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 4,706,121 A 1 1/1987 Young (73) Assignee: Convergent Media Solutions LLC 4,807,031 A 2/1989 Broughton et al. (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this (Continued) patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS This patent is Subject to a terminal dis EP 106.1490 A2 12/2000 claimer. GB 2348587 A 10, 2000 (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 14/148,630 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) Filed: Jan. 6, 2014 Prototypes, field tryouts proceed for enhancedTV. By Steve Behrens, http://www.current.org/dtv/dtv013e.html, printed Jun. 30, 2004 (65) Prior Publication Data (document states 71 1700). US 2014/O123186A1 May 1, 2014 (Continued) Primary Examiner —Nathan Flynn Related U.S. Application Data Assistant Examiner — Sumaiya A Chowdhury (63) Continuation of application No. 13/662.213, filed on (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Berkeley Law & Oct. 26, 2012, now Pat. No. 8,640,183, which is a Technology Group, LLP (57) ABSTRACT (Continued) 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 are integrated or not), and provide for coordinating browsing (Continued) activities to enable such a user interface to be employed (52) U.S. C. across multiple independent systems. Disclosed systems and CPC. H04N 2 1/42204 (2013.01); G06F 17/30873 methods also support new and enriched aspects and applica (2013.01); H04H 20/38 (2013.01); H04H tions of hypermedia browsing and related business activities. (Continued) 62 Claims, 10 Drawing Sheets SYSTEMS - 100 DEWICE SETS CONN f CONNECWY 110 Os/130 BROADCAST TWTW) NSTRK SATETE CABE WDEO ONDEMAND STREAMING MEDIA WE8 WRELESSPORTALS TRANSACTIONS WRESS AND THE LIKE NETWORK 126 LOCAL SORASE PCA PON SYSTEM EMENTS US 8,914,840 B2 Page 2 Related U.S. Application Data 65/1069 (2013.01); H04N21/.482 (2013.01); H04N 21/643 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 continuation of application No. 13/094.505, filed on (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L Apr. 26, 2011, now Pat. No. 8,813,125, which is a 69/329 (2013.01); H04N 2 1/858 (2013.01); continuation of application No. 10/434,032, filed on H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/43637 May 8, 2003, now Pat. No. 7.987,491. 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