Interactive system

• US 20080039210A1
• Filed: 08/08/2007
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ITV Entertainment, LLC
• Original Assignee: ITV Entertainment, LLC
• Inventors: Bergloff, Timothy O., Hughes, Patrick J., Junkin, William W.
• Application Number:
  US11/882,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20080039210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/61 using advertising information
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5506 using advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5546 using player registration data, e.g. identification, account, preferences, game history
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/572 Communication between players during game play of non game information, e.g. e-mail, chat, file transfer, streaming of audio and streaming of video

Abstract

An interactive video platform device which is configured to aggregate any type of content received from one or more sources into a common format, and distributes the aggregate content to a network for interactive communication among one or more remote video devices. The platform has particular applicability to on-line, interactive contest management.

Claims

1. An interactive video device platform for real time, on-line, contest service, adapted for coupling on one or more networks to contest providers, the platform comprising:

an input translator for receiving one or a plurality of simultaneous sessions received from the one or more networks, and aggregating the sessions into a common format;

a database storing real time contest information and information for developing a user profile for correlation with sponsorship or advertisement data;

a correlation engine coupled to the database for correlating said one or more sessions with the sponsorship or advertisement data to be associated with users; and

a provisioning engine coupled to the database for aggregating content for a session and converting the aggregated content to a prescribed format for delivery over one or more prescribed communication network protocols to the users.