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Convergence-enabled DVD and web system

  • US 8,001,211 B2
  • Filed: 11/14/2007
  • Issued: 08/16/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for generating information representative of the contents of a DVD, the DVD having been authored such that the information includes embedded commands to populate one or more General DVD Parameter Registers (GPRMs), the system comprising:

  • a DVD unit for playing the DVD and generating information representative of the contents of therein and, upon receiving a certain command embedded in the information, writing indicia of a current position of play within the DVD into the one or more GPRMs;

    a media unit adapted to receive the information and extract a TXTDT_MG data structure associated with the DVD, and further adapted to display video content extracted from the information; and

    a browser for displaying content designated by Universal Resource Locators (URLs), the URLs being derived by using the GPRMs to index into the TXTDT_MG data structure, wherein the displayed content designated by the URLs includes one or more features for controlling at least one of the media unit and the DVD unit.

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