Dynamic library display for interactive videos

• US 10,257,578 B1
• Filed: 01/05/2018
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JBF Interlude 2009 Ltd.
• Original Assignee: JBF Interlude 2009 Ltd.
• Inventors: Bloch, Yoni, Zubalsky, Tal, Hofshy, Yuval, Feldman, Barak
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US15/863,191
• Time in Patent Office: 459 Days
• 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 21/44226 on social networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8541 involving branching, e.g. to different story endings

Abstract

A video library interface provides a listing of interactive videos and information associated with the videos and is dynamically updated as a user views the videos and makes decisions that affect the playback of the episodes. More specifically, an interactive video that includes different traversable video paths is provided to and interacted with by a user. Based on user interactions received during presentation of the video, different video paths within the interactive video are traversed. In addition, a video library display including a visual depiction of information associated with a plurality of videos is provided. The video library display is dynamically modified based on one or more interactions made by the user with respect to the interactive video.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing an interactive video comprising a plurality of traversable video paths;

receiving, during presentation of the interactive video to a user, a first interaction with the interactive video, the first interaction comprising a decision made by the user in the interactive video;

traversing a particular video path in the interactive video in response to the first interaction;

providing a video library display comprising a visual depiction of information associated with a plurality of videos comprising individual episodes of a series, wherein the visual depiction of information comprises a list of the videos, metadata associated with one of the videos, a thumbnail image of one of the videos, and a summary of one of the videos; and

dynamically modifying the video library display based on one or more interactions made by the user with respect to the interactive video, the one or more interactions including the first interaction, wherein dynamically modifying the video library display comprises removing one of the videos from the list, adding a video to the list, changing an order of videos in the list, or modifying the metadata, thumbnail image, or summary of a particular one of the videos to reflect one or more decisions made by the user in the particular one of the videos.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically modifying the video library display further comprises including in the video library display supplemental content relating to one or more of the plurality of videos.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a first one of the videos in the video library display; and

commencing presentation of the first video at a first decision point in the first video, wherein a plurality of possible traversable video paths branch from the first decision point.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the visually depicted information comprises visual references to a plurality of traversable decision points in the first video including the first decision point, and wherein presentation of the first video is commenced based on receiving a selection of the first decision point in the visual references by the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a first one of the videos comprises an interactive video comprising a plurality of traversable video paths, the method further comprising:

presenting the first video a plurality of times, wherein in each presentation of the first video, at least one different video path is traversed;

aggregating information relating to the different traversed video paths over the plurality of times the first video is presented; and

dynamically modifying the video library display by including in the visual depiction of information the aggregated information.

6. A system comprising:

at least one memory for storing computer-executable instructions; and

at least one processor for executing the instructions stored on the memory, wherein execution of the instructions programs the at least one processor to perform operations comprising;

providing an interactive video comprising a plurality of traversable video paths;

receiving, during presentation of the interactive video to a user, a first interaction with the interactive video, the first interaction comprising a decision made by the user in the interactive video;

traversing a particular video path in the interactive video in response to the first interaction;

providing a video library display comprising a visual depiction of information associated with a plurality of videos comprising individual episodes of a series, wherein the visual depiction of information comprises a list of the videos, metadata associated with one of the videos, a thumbnail image of one of the videos, and a summary of one of the videos; and

dynamically modifying the video library display based on one or more interactions made by the user with respect to the interactive video, the one or more interactions including the first interaction, wherein dynamically modifying the video library display comprises removing one of the videos from the list, adding a video to the list, changing an order of videos in the list, or modifying the metadata, thumbnail image, or summary of a particular one of the videos to reflect one or more decisions made by the user in the particular one of the videos.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein dynamically modifying the video library display further comprises including in the video library display supplemental content relating to one or more of the plurality of videos.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a selection of a first one of the videos in the video library display; and

commencing presentation of the first video at a first decision point in the first video, wherein a plurality of possible traversable video paths branch from the first decision point.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the visually depicted information comprises visual references to a plurality of traversable decision points in the first video including the first decision point, and wherein presentation of the first video is commenced based on receiving a selection of the first decision point in the visual references by the user.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein a first one of the videos comprises an interactive video comprising a plurality of traversable video paths, and wherein the operations further comprise:

presenting the first video a plurality of times, wherein in each presentation of the first video, at least one different video path is traversed;

aggregating information relating to the different traversed video paths over the plurality of times the first video is presented; and

dynamically modifying the video library display by including in the visual depiction of information the aggregated information.