System and method for providing digital multimedia presentations

• US 20090259955A1
• Filed: 08/12/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Watson, Marieke Iwema, Bice, Matthew Paul, Barsook, Jonathan David
• Granted Patent: US 8,386,942 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• 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 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver

Abstract

There is presented a system and method for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system comprises a presentation server and a presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital multimedia content items, accessible through the presentation server. The system also comprises a presentation control application configured to enable identification of a digital multimedia content item for presentation from among the plurality of digital multimedia content items. The presentation control application is configured to organize the plurality of digital multimedia content items into digital multimedia content sets displayed on a selection plane, enable navigation in a first navigation mode on the selection plane, group the plurality of digital multimedia content items into grouping subsets displayed on a presentation plane, enable navigation in the first navigation mode on the presentation plane, and enable navigation in a second navigation mode between the selection plane and the presentation plane.

Claims

1. A system for providing a digital multimedia presentation, the system comprising:

a presentation server;

a presentation content database accessible through the presentation server, the presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital multimedia content items;

a presentation control application configured to enable identification of a digital multimedia content item for presentation from among the plurality of digital multimedia content items, by;

organizing the plurality of digital multimedia content items into digital multimedia content sets displayed on a selection plane;

enabling navigation in a first navigation mode on the selection plane;

grouping the plurality of digital multimedia content items into grouping subsets displayed on a presentation plane;

enabling navigation in the first navigation mode on the presentation plane; and

enabling navigation in a second navigation mode between the selection plane and the presentation plane.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first navigation mode comprises lateral navigation.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second navigation mode comprises zoom navigation.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation control application is further configured to coordinate display of a parental rating assigned to the digital multimedia content item for presentation according to a parental rating display protocol.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation control application executes as a server based application.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the digital multimedia content sets each comprise programming for a single television series.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the grouping subsets correspond to single seasons of programming for a single television series.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation control application is further configured to send the digital multimedia content item for presentation to a client computer.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the presentation control application is configured to stream the digital multimedia content item for presentation to the client computer.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a client computer.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the presentation control application executes as a desktop application on the client computer.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the client computer comprises a client-side system selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, a mobile telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), gaming console, and a home entertainment system.

13. A method of providing a digital multimedia presentation, the method comprising:

making a first selection format available for viewing on a selection plane, the first selection format displaying a plurality of digital multimedia content sets;

enabling navigation in a first navigation mode between the first selection format and a second selection format on the selection plane;

determining a selected digital multimedia content set from the plurality of digital multimedia content sets shown on the selection plane;

executing navigation in a second navigation mode into the selected digital multimedia content set, resulting in display of a plurality of digital multimedia content items on a presentation plane, the plurality of digital multimedia content items grouped into grouping subsets associated with the selected digital multimedia content set;

enabling navigation in the first navigation mode among the plurality of digital multimedia content items shown on the presentation plane, the presentation plane configured to display a contextual background corresponding to the selected digital multimedia content set and the grouping subsets; and

identifying a digital multimedia content item for presentation.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first navigation mode comprises lateral navigation.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the second navigation mode comprises zoom navigation.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising sending the identified digital multimedia content item to a client computer.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the sending comprises streaming the identified digital multimedia content item to the client computer.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying a parental rating assigned to the digital multimedia content item according to a parental rating display protocol.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of digital multimedia content sets comprise programming for a single television series.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the grouping subsets correspond to single seasons of programming for a single television series.