Steven B Okin

US Patent:

20060190959, Aug 24, 2006

Filed:

Nov 7, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/268764

Inventors:

Annemarie Gatti - Accord NY, US
Steven Okin - Los Angeles CA, US
Shelley Koontz - Tulsa OK, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/16
G06F 13/00
H04N 5/445
H04N 7/173
H04H 9/00
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

725013000, 725024000, 725037000

Abstract:

A method of navigating through an interactive multimedia program stored in a digital storage medium, including a plurality of tracks, includes the steps of presenting an interactive selection main menu to a viewer, presenting a first question to the viewer in response to a selection from the main menu, the question requesting an indication of a first set of parameters desired by the viewer, presenting a second question to the viewer requesting a second set of parameters desired by the viewer, and presenting a third question to the viewer requesting a third set of parameters desired by the viewer. A plurality of tracks are selected and presented in a sequential order determined at least in part by the viewer selections to the first, second and third questions. Each of the plurality of tracks is associated with at least one of a plurality of predefined categories. While the predetermined categories from which the tracks are selected are determined based on the viewer selections, the selections of tracks from within each category may be random.