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 ....... 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