Establishing a communication from a hypermedia document

摘要

The invention relates to a method for integrating a streamed media connection within a hypermedia document. The method comprising the step of describing a hypermedia document by specifying hypermedia objects and their relations for rendering a hypermedia information by a browser at a client, where a hypermedia object is a generic designation object like a link for establishing a streamed media communication, and in that when the object is designated on the rendered hypermedia information this object is interpreted by the client as a request to establish or participate at the streamed media communication and if necessary the object is interpreted with respect to the client's communication capabilities for rendering the streamed media communication. The invention relates to a computer software product for establishing a streamed media communication from a rendered hypermedia document.