Rerouting media to selected media applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-RE45472-E
Application number	US-201213620704-A
Country	US
Kind code	E1
Filing date	Sep 14, 2012
Priority date	Oct 5, 2000
Publication date	Apr 14, 2015
Grant date	Apr 14, 2015

Abstract

A data stream may be processed using a computer system by receiving the data stream using a browser application, detecting a content type of data in the data stream, temporarily overriding a default rendering process otherwise associated with the content type detected for the data in the data stream by associating a particular rendering process with the data stream based on the type of data in the data stream, and routing the data stream to the particular rendering process. The default rendering process may be identified in a registry of the computer system. It may be temporarily overridden by discriminating among internal and external instances of the browser application used to receive the data stream, and temporarily overriding the default rendering process only if the browser application is an internal instance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for temporarily overriding a default rendering process associated with a data stream comprising:
receiving a data stream using a browser running on a computer system;
detecting an original Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type of the data stream called by the browser;
determining whether the browser is invoked within an application environment of an internet service provider to enable a subscriber of the internet service provider to a…

Assignees

• Robinson John
• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Robinson John

Classifications

• H04L9/40

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• H04N7/17318 Primary

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• H04L29/06 Primary

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• H04N21/4143

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• H04N21/8166

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