USER GENERATED CONTENT

• US 20090064247A1
• Filed: 09/02/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Roundbox, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Jacked, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Marks, Jeffrey, Cunningham, Chris, Meltzer, Brock, Biniak, Bryan, Ivanov, Atanas
• Application Number:
  US12/203,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20090064247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/105
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• 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 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

The system provides a computer based presentation synchronized to a broadcast and not merely to an event. The system includes a customizable interface that uses a broadcast and a plurality of secondary sources to present data and information to a user to enhance and optimize a broadcast experience. The secondary sources can comprise commercially available sources as well as user generated content that is generated prior to, or coincidentally with, the broadcast of the primary content.

Claims

1. A method for presenting secondary content associated with primary content comprising:

generating user content related to the event;

collecting and presenting the user generated content coordinated with the primary content.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of collecting the user generated content comprises scraping data from a user generated content source.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the user, generated content source includes metadata associated with content.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein secondary content having metadata associated with the primary content is presented to the user.

5. The method of claim 4 further including the step of the user defining a category of secondary content.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the category comprises video data.

8. The method of claim 5 wherein the category comprises audio data.

9. The method of claim 5 wherein the category comprises textual data.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the secondary content is in a secondary language.

6. The method of claim wherein the category comprises image data.