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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2010
Sudhanshu Sharma, Coppell, TX (US);
Neena Pandey, Coppell, TX (US);
Sudhanshu Sharma, Coppell, TX (US);
Neena Pandey, Coppell, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method includes detecting, from an Enhanced Television (ETV) Integrated Signaling Stream (EISS), an indication that an ETV application is available to be downloaded; downloading, in response to the indication, the ETV application from a video stream identified by the indication, where the ETV application does not conform to an ETV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) standard; detecting, from the EISS, another indication that the ETV application is to be started; executing, in response to the other indication, the ETV application to generate an ETV page, where the ETV page includes information that is not permitted by the EBIF standard; and displaying the ETV page on a video display device to enables a user to interact with the ETV page.