USOO8893.212B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,893,212 B2 Reisman (45) Date of Patent: *Nov. 18, 2014 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 2 1/2665 (2013.01); USING ALTERNATIVE LINKBASES H04N 2 1/4438 (2013.01); (71) Applicant: Convergent Media Solutions LLC, (Continued) Plano, TX (US) (58) Field of Classification Search USPC .................. 725/110, 112–113, 133, 141, 153 (72) Inventor: Richard Reisman, New York, NY (US) See application file for complete search history. (73) Assignee: setts;Media Solutions LLC, (56) References Cited (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS patent is extended or adjusted under 35 4,706,121. A 1 1/1987 Young U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. 4,807,031 A 2/1989 Broughton et al. This patent is Subject to a terminal dis- (Continued) claimer. FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (21) Appl. 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Technology Group, LLP (60) Provisional application No. 60/455,433, filed on Mar. 17, 2003, provisional application No. 60/408,605, (57) ABSTRACT filed on Sep. 6, 2002, provisional application No. Systems and methods for navigating hypermedia using mul 60/379,635, filed on May 10, 2002. tiple coordinated input/output device sets. Disclosed systems and methods allow a user and/or an author to control what (51) Int. Cl. resources are presented on which device sets (whether they HO)4N 7/173 (2011.01) are integrated or not), and provide for coordinating browsing H04N 7/16 (2011.01) activities to enable such a user interface to be employed across multiple independent systems. Disclosed systems and (Continued) methods also support new and enriched aspects and applica (52) U.S. Cl. tions of hypermedia browsing and related business activities. CPC ....... 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