System and method for monitoring a real time event

• US 20090007170A1
• Filed: 06/26/2007
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jabali, Abdul, Everitt, Dortha, Dennehy, Jeremy
• Application Number:
  US11/768,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20090007170A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• 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 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

An apparatus includes a trigger module and a tuning module. The trigger module presents a notification on a display device in connection with an occurrence of a predetermined condition in a real time event, such that the notification is added to a decoded video signal representing a video presentation other than the real time event before the decoded video signal is output to the display device. The tuning module displays the real time event when the notification is selected. A method for presenting a notification for an occurrence of a predetermined condition in a real time event and for displaying the real time event is also disclosed.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a trigger module configured to present of a notification on a display device in connection with an occurrence of a predetermined condition in a real time event, such that the notification is added to a decoded video signal representing a video presentation other than the real time event before the decoded video signal is output to the display device; and

a tuning module configured to display the real time event when the notification is selected.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the real time event is displayed as a picture-in-picture display.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the video presentation is substituted for the display of the real time event.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein selection of the notification is based on a control stimulus received by the tuning module.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the notification is a pop-up notification.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the output of the display device is changed by tuning to a video channel and decoding a moving picture experts group video stream.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to identify the predetermined condition in the real time event, the graphical user interface including a graphical user interface element representing the real time event and a plurality of additional graphical user interface elements representing a predetermined condition selected from a group consisting of a ninth inning, a two-minute warning, a knock-down, a final lap, a touchdown, and a home run.

8. A method comprising:

presenting a notification on a display device in connection with an occurrence of a predetermined condition in a real time event; and

displaying the real time event when the notification is selected.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the real time event is a sporting event.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the predetermined condition is the sporting event reaching a predefined in-game moment selected from a group consisting of a ninth inning, a two-minute warning, a knock-down, a final lap, a touchdown, and a home run.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the real time event is displayed as a picture-in-picture display.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein a current display is substituted for the display of the real time event.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein the notification is a pop-up notification.

14. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

receiving a control stimulus for a selection of the notification.

15. A system comprising:

a monitoring device configured to monitor a real time event for a predetermined condition; and

a video receiver in communication with the monitoring device, the video receiver configured to output a notification of the predetermined condition and to display the real time event when the notification is selected.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the notification is a pop-up notification.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein the real time event is displayed as a picture-in-picture display.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein a current display is substituted for the display of the real time event.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein the video receiver is a set-top box.

20. The system of claim 15 wherein the selection of the notification is based on a control stimulus received by the video receiver.