USOO864O183B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,640,183 B2 Reisman (45) Date of Patent: Jan. 28, 2014 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING (56) References Cited USING ALTERNATIVE LINKBASES U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (71) Applicant: Richard Reisman, New York, NY (US) 4,706,121. A 1 1/1987 Young 4,807,031 A 2f1989 Broughton et al. (72) Inventor: Richard Reisman, New York, NY (US) 4,843,562 A 6, 1989 RE et al. 5,343,239 A 8/1994 Lappington et al. (73) Assignee: Convergent Media Solutions, LLC, 5,355.480 A 10/1994 Smith et al. Plano, TX (US) 5,396,546 A 3, 1995 Remillard 5,404,393 A 4/1995 Remillard (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 5.4103265.479.268 A 12,4/1995 1995 GoldsteiNial. patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 13/662,213 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS 1-1. EP 106.1490 A2 12/2000 (22) Filed: Oct. 26, 2012 GB 234.8587. A 10, 2000 (65) Prior Publication Data (Continued) US 2013/OO61273 A1 Mar. 7, 2013 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Related U.S. Application Data Bacon, Location-Oriented Multimedia, IEEE Personal Communica (63) Continuation of application No. 13/094.505, filed on tions, Oct. 1997, pp. 48-57. Apr. 26, 2011, which is a continuation of application (Continued) No. 10/434,032, filed on May 8, 2003, now Pat. No. 7.987,491. Primary Examiner — Jason J Chung (60) Provisional application No. 60/379,635, filed on May Assistant Examiner — Sumaiya A Chowdhury 10, 2002, provisional application No. 60/408,605, filed on Sep. 6, 2002, provisional application No. (57) ABSTRACT 60/455,433, filed on Mar. 17, 2003. Systems and methods for navigating hypermedia using mul tiple coordinated input/output device sets. Disclosed systems (51) Int. Cl. and methods allow a user and/or an author to control what HO)4N 7/173 (2011.01) resources are presented on which device sets (whether they H04N 7/16 (2011.01) are integrated or not), and provide for coordinating browsing (52) U.S. Cl. activities to enable such a user interface to be employed USPC ........... 725/133; 725/110; 725/113; 725/141; across multiple independent systems. Disclosed systems and 725/153 methods also support new and enriched aspects and applica (58) Field of Classification Search tions of hypermedia browsing and related business activities. USPC .................. 725/110, 112–113, 133, 141, 153 See application file for complete search history. 61 Claims, 10 Drawing Sheets 1. SYSTMS f - CONTENT DEVICESS CONNECIWTY - 110 130 NTERNet I hiOME BROACAST ty (Tw NEWORK SATELLTE iAN 124 CABE WIDEO ON DEMAND 28 STREAMNG MEDIA WEB WRESSPORTALS E. 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