Content-based control system

• US 10,015,557 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2011
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Du, Yangzhou, Li, Wenlong
• Primary Examiner(s): Gee, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US13/996,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20140196083A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,376 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/436 Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or one or more peripheral devices inside the home
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

Generally this disclosure describes a method for controlling the operation of a system based on a determination of content that is airing on a channel. A method may include transmitting at least one message including instructions to sample content from a channel, receiving a message indicating that certain content on the channel is complete, and activating a notification indicating that the certain content on the channel is complete. Another method may include receiving a message including instructions to sample content from a channel, sampling content from the channel, transmitting a message including the content sample, receiving a message comprising information related to the content sample, and determining whether certain content is complete on the channel based on the received information.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a mobile phone to wirelessly communicate with a cellular communication service, the mobile phone including;

communications circuitry to transmit and receive messages;

a user interface to provide a notification; and

one or more storage mediums having stored thereon, individually or in combination, instructions that when executed by one or more processors result in the mobile phone performing operations comprising;

receive at least one image from a television, the at least one image including an image of one or more identified users of the television;

transmit registration data to the television, the registration data including at least a selection of at least one of the one or more identified users of the television;

cause the television to change from displaying a first television channel to displaying a second television channel; and

responsive to a determination that the television has changed from displaying the first television channel to displaying the second television channel;

transmit, at a series of automatically configured defined intervals, a request to content recognition circuitry in the television, each request to cause the content recognition circuitry to determine whether content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

receive a message from the content recognition circuitry indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement; and

responsive to receipt of the message, display a notification indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein when more than one request is transmitted, the requests are transmitted until the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification is at least one of a visual, audible or tactile notification.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification provides an option to select the first television channel for viewing on the television.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising selecting the first television channel for viewing on the television.

19. The system of claim 1 wherein the automatically configured defined intervals are determined based on at least one of:

a processing capacity of the mobile phone or a communication bandwidth availability between the mobile phone and the television.

6. A system, comprising:

communications circuitry to transmit messages, receive messages and receive audio/visual content; and

one or more storage mediums having stored thereon, individually or in combination, instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a television result in the television performing operations comprising;

transmit at least one image to a mobile phone, the at least one image including an image of one or more identified users of the television;

receive registration data from the mobile phone, the registration data including at least a selection of at least one of the one or more identified users of the television;

change from displaying a first television channel to displaying a second television channel;

receive, at content recognition circuitry in the television, at an automatically configured series of defined intervals, a request from the mobile phone to determine whether content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

responsive to receipt of the request, transmit a first message including at least a first portion of the content airing on the first television channel to a remote server;

receive a response to the first message including a determination of whether the content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement; and

responsive to the response to the first message indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement,

transmit a second message to the mobile phone.

20. The system of claim 6 wherein the automatically configured defined intervals are determined based on at least one of:

a processing capacity of the mobile phone or a communication bandwidth availability between the mobile phone and the television.

7. A system, comprising one or more storage mediums having stored thereon, individually or in combination, instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a mobile phone, result in the mobile phone performing the following operations comprising:

receive at least one image from a television, the at least one image including an image of one or more identified users of the television;

transmit registration data to the television, the registration data including at least a selection of at least one of the one or more identified users of the television;

cause the television to change from displaying a first television channel to displaying a second television channel; and

responsive to a determination that the television has changed from displaying the first television channel to displaying the second television channel;

transmit, at a series of automatically configured defined intervals, a request to content recognition circuitry in the television to cause the content recognition circuitry to determine whether content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

receive a message from the television indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement; and

responsive to receipt of the message, cause display of a notification indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein when more than one request is transmitted, the requests are transmitted until the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the notification is at least one of a visual, audible or tactile notification.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the notification provides an option to select the first television channel for viewing on the television.

11. The system of claim 7, further comprising selecting the first television channel for viewing on the television.

21. The system of claim 7 wherein the automatically configured defined intervals are determined based on at least one of:

a processing capacity of the mobile phone or a communication bandwidth availability between the mobile phone and the television.

12. A system, comprising one or more storage mediums having stored thereon, individually or in combination, instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a television result in the television performing operations comprising:

transmit at least one image to a mobile phone, the at least one image including an image of one or more identified users of the television;

receive registration data from the mobile phone, the registration data including at least a selection of at least one of the one or more identified users of the television;

change from displaying a first television channel to displaying a second television channel;

receive, at content recognition circuitry in the television, at an automatically configured series of defined intervals, a request from the mobile phone to determine whether content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

responsive to receipt of the request, transmit a first message including at least a first portion of the content airing on the first television channel to a remote server;

receive a response to the first message including a determination of whether the content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

responsive to the response to the first message indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement,

transmit a second message to the mobile phone.

22. The system of claim 12 wherein the automatically configured defined intervals are determined based on at least one of:

a processing capacity of the mobile phone or a communication bandwidth availability between the mobile phone and the television.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving, using a mobile phone, at least one image from a television, the at least one image including an image one or more identified users of the television;

transmitting, using the mobile phone, registration data to the television, the registration data including at least a selection of at least one of the one or more identified users of the television;

causing the television to change from displaying a first television channel to displaying a second television channel; and

responsive to a determination that the television channel has changed from displaying the first television channel to displaying the second television channel;

transmitting, using the mobile phone, at an automatically configured series of defined intervals, a request to content recognition circuitry in the television to cause the content recognition circuitry to determine whether content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

receiving, from the television, a message indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement; and

responsive to receipt of the message, causing display of a notification indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein when more than one request is transmitted from the mobile phone, the requests are transmitted until the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the notification is at least one of a visual, audible or tactile notification.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the notification provides an option to select the first channel for viewing on the television.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising selecting the first television channel for viewing on the television.

23. The method of claim 13 wherein the automatically configured defined intervals are determined based on at least one of:

a processing capacity of the mobile phone or a communication bandwidth availability between the mobile phone and the television.

18. A method, comprising:

transmitting, by a television, at least one image to a mobile phone, the at least one image including an image of one or more identified user of the television;

receiving, by the television, registration data from the mobile phone, the registration data including at least a selection of at least one of the one or more identified users of the television;

changing from displaying a first television channel to displaying a second television channel;

receiving, at content recognition circuitry in the television, at an automatically configured series of defined intervals, a request from the mobile phone to determine whether content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

responsive to receipt of the request, transmitting a first message including at least a first portion of the content airing on the first television channel to a remote server;

receiving a response to the first message including a determination of whether the content airing on the first television channel comprises an advertisement;

responsive to the response to the first message indicating that the content airing on the first television channel does not comprise an advertisement,

transmitting a second message to the mobile phone.

24. The method of claim 18 wherein the automatically configured defined intervals are determined based on at least one of:

a processing capacity of the mobile phone or a communication bandwidth availability between the mobile phone and the television.