US RE42,728 E1
Network distribution and management of interactive video and multi-media containers
Nabil Madrane, Casablanca (Morocco)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 31, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/140,518.
Application 09/411873 is a continuation in part of application No. 08/887992, filed on Jul. 03, 1997, granted, now 5,963,203.
Application 11/140518 is a reissue of application No. 09/411873, filed on Oct. 04, 1999, now 6,573,907, filed on Jun. 03, 2003.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 715—716  [715/719; 715/720; 715/721] 57 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of delivering video over a network, comprising:
receiving video data representing a video sequence [ at a first device] ;
generating a hyper-media container containing [ including ] data associated with the video data;
storing the video data [ in a memory at the first device] ;
storing the hyper-media container [ in the memory in a primary storage format] ; [ and ]
providing the video data and the hyper-media container available over the network to a remote user [ second device, the hyper-media container being provided in a secondary storage format, the secondary storage format being a format different than the primary storage format and being a format that is readable at the second device,
wherein the hyper-media container in the secondary storage format includes address information of annotation data] .