SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING OF A LIVE EVENT AND THIRD PARTY INFORMATION

• US 20090167860A1
• Filed: 12/29/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Patel, Paritosh
• Granted Patent: US 9,756,295 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to live event recording and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for recording a live event. In this regard, in one embodiment of the invention, a live event recording method can be provided. The live event recording method can include wirelessly acquiring third party information regarding a live performance from a third party information source over a computer communications network, and simultaneously recording both the live performance and also the third party information onto a single recordable medium.

Claims

1. A live event recording method comprising:

wirelessly acquiring third party information regarding a live performance from a third party information source over a computer communications network; and

simultaneously recording both the live performance and also the third party information onto a single recordable medium.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein third party information comprises event overview information selected from the group consisting of a name of the live performance, a name of a team participating in the live performance, a location of the live performance, and the roster of a team participating in the live performance.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein third party information comprises updated third party information selected from the group consisting of minute-by-minute score information for the live performance, scoring players in the live performance, and penalized players in the live performance.

4. A live event recording data processing system comprising:

a single recordable medium;

a video recorder coupled to the single recordable medium; and

synchronizing recorder logic coupled to the video recorder, the logic comprising program code enabled to simultaneously record onto the single recordable medium both a live performance through the video recorder, and also third party information related to the live performance and retrieved wirelessly from over a computer communications network.

5. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for live event recording, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for wirelessly acquiring third party information regarding a live performance from a third party information source over a computer communications network; and

computer usable program code for simultaneously recording both the live performance and also the third party information onto a single recordable medium.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein third party information comprises event overview information selected from the group consisting of a name of the live performance, a name of a team participating in the live performance, a location of the live performance, and the roster of a team participating in the live performance.

7. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein third party information comprises updated third party information selected from the group consisting of minute-by-minute score information for the live performance, scoring players in the live performance, and penalized players in the live performance.