Industrial Technology Research Institute

Tai-Yuan Wang

Wen-Chiuan Liao

Jyhhwa Ferng

Jeng-Weei Lin

Po-Wen Cheng

Jen-Chieh Cheng

Yun-Fuh Yeh

James Lee

Shiuan-Hung Lee

Wei-Hsing Liu

Po-wen Cheng

A method and apparatus for interacting and selecting information on a video device employs a remote control unit which has a plurality of user interface devices. The user interface devices control information flow on the video device in a predetermined manner. The method and apparatus for interacting with information on the video device directly interacts with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags without the need of a graphical mouse pointer on the video device.

Method and apparatus for interacting and selecting information on a video device

Remote controller

A host node is provided with an I/O port and a display monitor. The I/O port transmits packets to a specific one of the remotely accessible server nodes containing a request for information. In response, the I/O port receives packets containing requested information, entries describing other topics of information that can be provided from the specific server node and entries describing other server nodes. The display monitor has a view area on which images are displayed. The display monitor displays a hierarchically organized table. The table includes the entries describing remotely accessible server nodes and the entries describing topics of information that can be retrieved from the remotely accessible server nodes. The entries are hierarchically organized so as to indicate a hierarchical organization of the entries as provided for retrieval from the remotely accessible server nodes which hierarchical order of retrieval is independent of a specific order of retrieval by the host node.

Method and system at a host node for hierarchically organizing the links

Growing community of inventors

Fieng Shan, Taiwan

Tai-Yuan Wang