Concepts for providing an enhanced media presentation

• US 10,025,875 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2014
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wellen, Alex, Gallagher, Marisa, Loheide, Don, Wise, Michael, Persaud, Rajin, Koetter, Michael, Estenson, KC, Ehlers, Dave, Hinton, Chris, Quigley, Michael, Legg, Jeremy, Teissler, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): VAUGHN, GREGORY J
• Application Number:
  US14/522,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20150294025A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/07 characterised by processes or methods for the generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234345 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/266 Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/440245 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/45457 applied to a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 : for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 : End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4886 : for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 : involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 : specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 : involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 : by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 : Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.

Claims

1. A method for providing an enhanced media presentation to an end user wherein at least a portion of a segment is simultaneously displayed with an associated content object, the method comprising the steps of:

identifying, by a provider system comprising at least one processor, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation, wherein;

segment data corresponding to the segment comprises at least one of (a) segment topic identifiers, (b) segment keywords, or (c) both,

a content item is associated with at least one of (a) content topic identifiers, (b) content keywords, or (c) both,

the one or more content items are identified by automatically matching, by the provider system, at least one of (a) a particular number of the segment topic identifiers and the content topic identifiers or (b) a particular number of the segment keywords and the content keywords, and

each content item is associated with at least one uniform resource identifier;

creating, by the provider system, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item, the content object being an abstract representation of the content item;

generating, by the provider system, an object identifier, the object identifier being (a) distinct from the at least one uniform resource identifier and (b) configured to uniquely identify the content object;

associating, by the provider system, the object identifier with the content object;

associating, by the provider system, the content object with the segment by adding the object identifier to segment data corresponding to the segment; and

providing, by the provider system, the content object associated with the segment in association with the segment, wherein the content object is configured to be displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the abstract representation of the content item comprises a portable data set.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the portable data set is based at least in part on a content type associated with the content item.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request for a content object, the request comprising the object identifier associated with the content object; and

providing the content object.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein each content object is associated with a content type, the content type selected from the group consisting of an article, a photo, a photo gallery, a video, a long form video, a video gallery, social media content, a blog entry, a biography, a poll, an infographic, and a map.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the content type is social media content and the content object is a snapshot of one or more social media outlets at a particular point in time.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein at least two of the one or more content items are identified on different social media platforms.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the one or more content items evolves with time and the content object represents the state of the content item at the moment the content object was created.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the content object is associated with metadata comprising at least one of a content type, a content name, a content synopsis, or video data associated with the segment with which the content object is associated.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the segment of the enhanced media presentation is at least a portion of the enhanced media presentation.

11. A system for providing an enhanced media presentation to an end user wherein at least a portion of a segment is simultaneously displayed with an associated content object, the system comprising at least one memory device storing computer program code and at least one processor, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the system to at least:

identify one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation wherein;

segment data corresponding to the segment comprises at least one of (a) segment topic identifiers,(b) segment keywords, or (c) both,

a content item is associated with at least one of (a) content topic identifiers, (b) content keywords, or (c) both,

the one or more content items are identified by automatically matching, by the provider system, at least one of (a) a particular number of the segment topic identifiers and the content topic identifiers or (b) a particular number of the segment keywords and the content keywords, and

each content item is associated with at least one uniform resource identifier;

create a content object based at least in part on at least one content item, the content object being an abstract representation of the content item;

generate an object identifier, the object identifier being (a) distinct from the at least one uniform resource identifier and (b) configured to uniquely identify the content object;

associate the object identifier with the content object;

associate the content object with the segment by adding the object identifier to segment data corresponding to the segment; and

provide the content object associated with the segment in association with the segment, wherein the content object is configured to be displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the abstract representation of the content item comprises a portable data set.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the portable data set is based at least in part on a content type associated with the content item.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the system is further configured to at least:

receive a request for a content object, the request comprising the object identifier associated with the content object; and

provide the content object.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein each content object is associated with a content type, the content type selected from the group consisting of an article, a photo, a photo gallery, a video, a long form video, a video gallery, social media content, a blog entry, a biography, a poll, an infographic, and a map.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the content type is social media content and the content object is a snapshot of one or more social media outlets at a particular point in time.

17. The system of claim 11 wherein at least two of the one or more content items are identified on different social media platforms.

18. The system of claim 11 wherein at least one of the one or more content items evolves with time and the content object represents the state of the content item at the moment the content object was created.

19. The system of claim 11 wherein the content object is associated with metadata comprising at least one of a content type, a content name, a content synopsis, or video data associated with the segment with which the content object is associated.

20. The system of claim 11 wherein the segment of the enhanced media presentation is at least a portion of the enhanced media presentation.

21. A computer program product for providing an enhanced media presentation, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

an executable portion configured to automatically identify one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation wherein;

segment data corresponding to the segment comprises at least one of (a) segment topic identifiers, (b) segment keywords, or (c) both,

a content item is associated with at least one of (a) content topic identifiers, (b) content keywords, or (c) both,

the one or more content items are identified by automatically matching, by the provider system, at least one of (a) a particular number of the segment topic identifiers and the content topic identifiers or (b) a particular number of the segment keywords and the content keywords, and

each content item is associated with at least one uniform resource identifier;

an executable portion configured to create a content object based at least in part on at least one content item, the content object being an abstract representation of the content item;

an executable portion configured to generate an object identifier, the object identifier being (a) distinct from the at least one uniform resource identifier and (b) configured to uniquely identify the content object;

an executable portion configured to associate the object identifier with the content object;

an executable portion configured to automatically associate the content object with the segment by adding the object identifier to segment data corresponding to the segment; and

an executable portion configured to provide the content object associated with the segment in association with the segment, wherein the content object is configured to be displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.

22. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein the abstract representation of the content item comprises a portable data set.

23. The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the portable data set is based at least in part on a content type associated with the content item.

24. The computer program product of claim 21, the computer-readable program code portions further comprising:

an executable portion configured to receive a request for a content object, the request comprising the object identifier associated with the content object; and

an executable portion configured to provide the content object.

25. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein each content object is associated with a content type, the content type selected from the group consisting of an article, a photo, a photo gallery, a video, a long form video, a video gallery, social media content, a blog entry, a biography, a poll, an infographic, and a map.

26. The computer program product of claim 25 wherein the content type is social media content and the content object is a snapshot of one or more social media outlets at a particular point in time.

27. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein at least one of the one or more content items evolves with time and the content object represents the state of the content item at the moment the content object was created.

28. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein the content object is associated with metadata comprising at least one of a content type, a content name, a content synopsis, or video data associated with the segment with which the content object is associated.