System and method for alternate content delivery

• US 20030084455A1
• Filed: 10/29/2001
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Dew, Aaron, Creed, Anthony Lionel, Gudorf, Greg, Hausch, William, Chang, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US10/000,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20030084455A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/109
• 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 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• 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 7/002 Special television systems not provided for by H04N7/007 - H04N7/18 still pictures via a television channel H04N1/00098
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system and method for presenting out of band content on a TV includes an out of TV band receiver such as a radio that receives content peer to peer from other TVs, or from a server. The content is cached at the receiving TV and is played on the TV automatically in response to a predetermined rule being satisfied, or on demand from the viewer, giving the appearance of a real time connection.

Claims

1. A system for presenting content on a TV, comprising:

at least one receiver TV presenting broadcast TV content;

at least one communication receiver;

at least one data cache receiving cache content via the receiver; and

at least one processor communicating with the data cache and presenting the cache content on the TV.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor presents the cache content in response to a viewer-generated signal.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor automatically presents the cache content in accordance with at least one cache content presentation rule.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a sender TV sending the cache content to the receiver TV peer-to-peer.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a server sending the cache content to the receiver TV server-to-client.

6. A system for presenting content on a TV, comprising:

at least one receiver TV presenting broadcast TV content;

at least one cache content receiver;

at least one data cache receiving cache content via the receiver; and

at least one processor communicating with the data cache and presenting the cache content on the TV.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the cache content receiver is an AM radio receiver.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor presents the cache content in response to a viewer-generated signal.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor automatically presents the cache content in accordance with at least one cache content presentation rule.

10. The system of claim 6, further comprising a sender TV sending the cache content to the receiver TV peer-to-peer.

11. The system of claim 6, further comprising a server sending the cache content to the receiver TV server-to-client.

12. A method for presenting TV content and cache content on a TV simultaneously with each other, comprising:

receiving a TV signal and presenting it on a TV;

receiving cache content and storing the cache content in a data cache; and

in response to a cache content presentation rule or a viewer-generated signal, presenting cache content from the data cache on the TV along with the TV content.

13. The method of claim 12, comprising receiving the cache content via an AM radio receiver.

14. The method of claim 13, comprising receiving the cache content from a sender TV.

15. The method of claim 13, comprising receiving the cache content from a server.

16. A system for presenting out of band content on a TV, comprising:

receiver TV means for displaying television signals;

out of band content receiver means associated with the receiver TV means for receiving broadcast out of band content for presentation thereof on the TV, the out of band content not being a television signal.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the out of band content is received from a sender TV.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the out of band content is received from a server.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the out of band content is cached at the receiver TV means.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the out of band content receiver means is a radio.