SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT RELATING TO A COMMUNICATION

• US 20080163312A1
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MECA Communications Incorporated
• Original Assignee: MECA Communications Incorporated
• Inventors: Borges, Jeshua S., Faust, Dennis F.
• Application Number:
  US11/617,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20080163312A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/93
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/475 End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. personal identification number [PIN], preference data
• 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 21/8405 represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

An apparatus, system and method for presenting content relating to a context of a communication are described. A method is described for providing a content corresponding to a real time communication comprising detecting a context in the real time communication, selecting a first content relating to the context of the real time communication, and presenting the first content concurrently with the real time communication to a participant of the real time communication.

Claims

1. A method for providing a content corresponding to a real time communication comprising:

detecting a context in the real time communication;

selecting a first content relating to the context of the real time communication; and

presenting the first content concurrently with the real time communication to a participant of the real time communication.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

accessing a source providing the first content and accessing the first content;

extracting a first key term from the first content having been accessed; and

using the first key term for the detecting of the context of the real time communication.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

indexing, in an index, the first content having been accessed, wherein the index includes a first content ranking associated by the source to the first content.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

associating, in the index, with the first content at least one of the first key term having been extracted and the first key term associated with a first key term ranking.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

selecting the first content when at least one of the first content ranking is above a first threshold and the first key term ranking is above a second threshold.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a first feedback of the first content from the participant in response to the first content having been presented; and

modifying the index in response to receiving the first feedback from the participant.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting the communication further comprises imperceptibly detecting the context of the real time communication while maintaining the privacy of the real time communication.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sharing the first content with a co-participant of the real time communication.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing a client with the first content having been shared if the client is not present on a communication appliance of the co-participant.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the presenting further comprising displaying the first content to the participant in a viewing apparatus;

tracking the first content having been displayed; and

selecting a second content upon detecting the context in the real time communication after the first content has been displayed.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content having been presented is an advertainment relating to the context of the real time communication.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

building a social network with a plurality of members comprising at least the participant and a first contact configured to communicate with the participant, wherein the social network is used for at least one of;

modifying a content ranking of the first content, submitting a second content for presenting to the social network, and influencing a future presenting of the first content to at least one of the plurality of members in the social network.

13. A system for providing content relating to a context of a real time communication comprising:

a listening module configured for detecting the context of the real time communication;

a searching module coupled to the listening module, the searching module configured to retrieve a first content relating to the context in response to the listening module detecting the context; and

a first content presenter coupled to the searching module, wherein the searching module is configured to provide the first content to the first content presenter concurrently with the real time communication.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

a harvesting module configured to access a first content source, the first content source configured to store the first content, wherein the first content source associates a first content ranking to the first content; and

an index coupled to the searching module and the harvesting module, the harvesting module configured to index, in the index, the first content and the first content ranking, wherein the first content is at least one of an address location where the first content is accessed and a data file.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

the harvesting module configured to extract a first key term from the first content;

the harvesting module configured to index, in the index, the first key term and a first key term ranking;

the first content presenter configured to display the first content to a participant of the real time communication, and the first content presenter configured to receive a first feedback from the participant of the first content having been displayed; and

a modifying module coupled to the index, the modifying module configured to modify at least one of the first content ranking and the key term ranking in the index in response to receiving the first feedback.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

the first content presenter configured to display the first content to a participant in the real time communication by at least one of displaying an address of a first source providing the first content, accessing the first source and opening the first content for the participant to view, and initiating the viewing of the first content upon a request by the participant.

17. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

the searching module configured to share the first content to a second content presenter of a co-participant involved in the real time communication.

18. A method for displaying content relating to a communications comprising:

indexing, in an index, a plurality of content from a source and a content ranking associated with each of the plurality of content;

selecting, from the plurality of content, a first content relating to a first context of a first communication; and

retrieving the first content from the source and presenting the first content to a first viewer concurrently with the first communication.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving a first feedback from the first viewer of the first content; and

modifying the index of the plurality of content in response to the first feedback having been received, wherein the first feedback reflects an opinion of the first viewer regarding at least one of a quality of the first content and a relatedness of the first content to the first context.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the modifying the index influences the presenting of the first content during a second communication with a second context analogous to the first context.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

capturing an identification of a contact of the first viewer; and

sharing the first content with the contact upon receiving a request to share the first content by the first viewer.