SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS

• US 20040122731A1
• Filed: 06/10/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tangelo IP, LLC (Activ8now, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Tangelo IP, LLC (Activ8now, LLC)
• Inventors: Whitley, David Hansel, Headrick, Garland Todd, Harris, James Edwin III, Hyser, Stephen Andrew, Mannik, Peeter Todd, Mignone, Robert Bruno, Hutchinson, Kristopher Derek
• Application Number:
  US10/250,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20040122731A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for providing, with respect to a media source, an interactive electronic reproduction of a media object that includes a secondary object appearing in the media source.

Claims

1. A method for tying a secondary object appearing in a media object to electronically provided information about the secondary object comprising:

associating a media object appearing in a media source with a location on a computer network, wherein the media object includes a secondary object, allowing a viewer of the media object to access the location on the computer network;

providing an interactive electronic reproduction of at least a portion of the media object that includes the secondary object;

receiving control input from the viewer selecting the secondary object from the interactive electronic reproduction; and

displaying information concerning the secondary object to the viewer in response to the control input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the media source is printed material.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the location is a web site on a wide area network.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the secondary object is an image of a commercially available product.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the information concerning the secondary object is purchasing information for the product.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the media source is a printed publication selected from the group consisting of a magazine, catalog, book and newspaper.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the interactive electronic reproduction is a scaled exact duplicate electronic image of the at least a portion of the media object that includes the secondary object.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the media source is video material.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the secondary object is an image of a commercially available product.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the media source is a digital image.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the secondary object is an image of a commercially available product.

12. The method of claim 6 further comprising marking the media source with a domain name to assist the viewer in locating the interactive electronic reproduction of the media object.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing an electronic copy of the image of the cover of the media source, wherein the electronic copy of the image of the cover enables a viewer to choose the publication in which the media object appears.

14. A method for tying a secondary object appearing in a media object to electronically provided information about the secondary object comprising:

associating a media object appearing in a media source with one or more files stored in a computer storage medium, wherein the media object includes a secondary object,

providing an interactive electronic reproduction of at least a portion of the media object that includes the secondary object in response to the execution of at least one file of the one or more files;

receiving control input to select the secondary object appearing in the interactive electronic reproduction; and

displaying information concerning the secondary object in response to the control input.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the media source is printed material.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the location is a web site on a wide area network.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the secondary object is an image of a commercially available product.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the information concerning the secondary object is purchasing information for the product.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the media source is a printed publication selected from the group consisting of a magazine, catalog, book and newspaper.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the interactive electronic reproduction is a scaled exact duplicate electronic image of the at least a portion of the media object that includes the secondary object.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the media source is video material.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the secondary object is an image of a commercially available product.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the media source is a digital image.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the secondary object is an image of a commercially available product.