METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR USE WITH A DATA ACCESS DEVICE AND AN OPTICAL DISC IN AN ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090304365A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Kwan, Brian, Acosta, Evan, Tahler, Evan, Prestenback, Kyle
• Application Number:
  US12/238,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20090304365A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/248
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are provided, which may be implemented using an optical disc and a data access device such as, e.g., an optical disc player device. The optical disc may include content information, such as, video data, audio data, and advertisement data. The advertisement data may be associated with at least one product and/or service that is not adapted for use by the optical disc player device. The optical disc may include instructional information to adapt the optical disc player device to access user input data identifying user contact information and at least one advertisement selection, and to initiate transmission of an information request associated with at least one product and/or service associated with advertisement selection and/or advertisement data. The information request may include user contact information and may be adapted for use by at least one information delivery system which may initiate subsequent user contact without using the optical disc player device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

with a data access device, accessing content information stored on an optical disc said content information comprising video data, audio data, and advertisement data, said advertisement data being associated with at least one product and/or service that is not adapted for use by the data access device, said advertisement data comprising at least one of advertisement video data, advertisement audio data, advertisement image data, advertisement graphic data, and/or advertisement textual data;

generating at least one content presentation signal associated with at least of portion of said content information comprising at least a portion of said advertisement data, said at least one content presentation signal being adapted for use by at least one of a video monitor device and/or an audio monitor device;

accessing instructional information stored on said optical disc, said instructional information comprising computer implementable instructions; and

based, at least in part, on said instructional information, adapting one or more processing units within said data access device to;

access user input data, said user input data identifying user contact information and at least one advertisement selection associated with said advertisement data, and

initiate transmission of an information request, said information request being associated with said at least one product and/or service based, at least in part, on said at least one advertisement selection, said information request comprising at least said user contact information and being adapted for use by at least one information delivery system that is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating subsequent user contact without using the data access device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data access device comprises an optical disc player device.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one information delivery system is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating user contact through at least one network and at least one of a computing device and/or a communication device operatively coupled to said at least one network.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one information delivery system is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating user contact via at least one of an electronic communication, a telephonic communication, and/or a postal communication.

5. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein at least one of said electronic communication, said telephonic communication, and/or said postal communication is adapted to deliver at least a portion of said product and/or service.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said user contact information comprises at least one of an electronic communication address, a telephonic communication number, and/or a postal communication address.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said optical disc comprises a Blu-Ray optical disc.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein:

said user input data further comprises user input preference data identifying at least one preference parameter; and

adapting said one or more processing units within said data access device to initiate transmission of said information request further comprises selectively initiating transmission of said information request based, at least in part, on said at least one preference parameter.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one product and/or service is associated with at least a portion of at least one of said video data and/or said audio data.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one product and/or service comprises a ring tone.

11. An optical disc player device adapted for use in an entertainment system having a video monitor device and an audio monitor device, the optical disc player device comprising:

means for accessing information stored on an optical disc, said information comprising instructional information and content information, said content information comprising video data, audio data, and advertisement data, said advertisement data being associated with at least one product and/or service that is not adapted for use by the optical disc player device, said advertisement data comprising at least one of advertisement video data, advertisement audio data, advertisement image data, advertisement graphic data, and/or advertisement textual data;

means for generating at least one content presentation signal associated with at least of portion of said content information comprising at least a portion of said advertisement data, said at least one content presentation signal being adapted for use by at least one of said video and/or audio monitor devices; and

wherein said instructional information comprises means for adapting one or more processing units within said optical disc player device to access user input data, said user input data identifying user contact information and at least one advertisement selection associated with said advertisement data, and initiate transmission of an information request, said information request being associated with said at least one product and/or service based, at least in part, on said at least one advertisement selection, said information request comprising at least said user contact information and being adapted for use by at least one information delivery system that is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating subsequent user contact without using the optical disc player device.

12. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein said at least one information delivery system is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating user contact through at least one network and at least one of a computing device and/or a communication device operatively coupled to said at least one network.

13. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein said at least one information delivery system is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating user contact via at least one of an electronic communication, a telephonic communication, and/or a postal communication.

14. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 13, wherein at least one of said electronic communication, said telephonic communication, and/or said postal communication is adapted to deliver at least a portion of said product and/or service.

15. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein said user contact information comprises at least one of an electronic communication address, a telephonic communication number, and/or a postal communication address.

16. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein said optical disc comprises a Blu-Ray optical disc.

17. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein:

said user input data further comprises user input preference data identifying at least one preference parameter; and

said means for adapting said one or more processing units within said optical disc player device to initiate transmission of said information request is adapted to selectively initiate transmission of said information request based, at least in part, on said at least one preference parameter.

18. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein said at least one product and/or service is associated with at least a portion of at least one of said video data and/or said audio data.

19. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 11, wherein said at least one product and/or service comprises a ring tone.

20. An optical disc player device adapted for use in an entertainment system having a video monitor device and an audio monitor device, the optical disc player device comprising:

an optical disc having information stored thereon, said information comprising instructional information and content information, said content information comprising video data, audio data, and advertisement data, said advertisement data being associated with at least one product and/or service that is not adapted for use by the optical disc player device, said advertisement data comprising at least one of advertisement video data, advertisement audio data, advertisement image data, advertisement graphic data, and/or advertisement textual data;

an optical disc reading mechanism adapted to access said information from said optical disc;

memory operatively coupled to said optical disc reading mechanism and adapted to store at least a portion of said accessed information;

a user interface adapted to receive user input and provide corresponding user input data;

a network interface adapted to connect said optical disc player device to at least one communication network;

at least one processor operatively coupled to at least one of said memory, said user interface, and/or said network interface and adapted to;

generate at least one content presentation signal associated with at least of portion of said content information comprising at least a portion of said advertisement data, said at least one content presentation signal being adapted for use by at least one of said video and/or audio monitor devices; and

based, at least in part, on said instructional information;

access said user input data, said user input data identifying user contact information and at least one advertisement selection associated with said advertisement data, and

initiate transmission of an information request through said network interface, said information request being associated with said at least one product and/or service based, at least in part, on said at least one advertisement selection, said information request comprising at least said user contact information and being adapted for use by at least one information delivery system that is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating subsequent user contact without using the optical disc player device.

21. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 20, wherein said user contact information comprises at least one of an electronic communication address, a telephonic communication number, and/or a postal communication address.

22. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 20, wherein said optical disc comprises a Blu-Ray optical disc.

23. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 20, wherein:

said user input data further comprises user input preference data identifying at least one preference parameter; and

based, at least in part, on said instructional information said at least one processing unit is adapted to selectively initiate transmission of said information request based, at least in part, on said at least one preference parameter.

24. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 20, wherein said at least one product and/or service is associated with at least a portion of at least one of said video data and/or said, audio data.

25. The optical disc player device as recited in claim 20, wherein said at least one product and/or service comprises a ring tone.

26. An optical disc adapted for use by an optical disc player device, the optical disc having information stored thereon, said information comprising:

content information comprising video data, audio data, and advertisement data, said advertisement data being associated with at least one product and/or service that is not adapted for use by the optical disc player device, said advertisement data comprising at least one of advertisement video data, advertisement audio data, advertisement image data, advertisement graphic data, and/or advertisement textual data; and

instructional information comprising computer implementable instructions which if implemented by one or more processing units adapt said one or more processing units to;

access user input data, said user input data identifying user contact information and at least one advertisement selection associated with said advertisement data, said user input data being associated with a presentation of said advertisement data, and

initiate transmission of an information request associated with said at least one product and/or service based, at least in part, on said at least one advertisement selection, said information request comprising at least said user contact information and being adapted for use by at least one information delivery system that is adapted to respond to said information request by initiating subsequent user contact without using the optical disc player device.

27. The optical disc as recited in claim 26, wherein said user contact information comprises at least one of an electronic communication address, a telephonic communication number, and/or a postal communication address.

28. The optical disc as recited in claim 26, wherein said optical disc comprises a Blu-Ray optical disc.

29. The optical disc as recited in claim 26, wherein:

said user input data further comprises user input preference data identifying at least one preference parameter; and

said computer implementable instructions which if implemented by said one or more processing units adapt said one or more processing units to selectively initiate transmission of said information request based, at least in part, on said at least one preference parameter.

30. The optical disc as recited in claim 26, wherein said at least one product and/or service is associated with at least a portion of at least one of said video data and/or said audio data.

31. The optical disc as recited in claim 26, wherein said at least one product and/or service comprises a ring tone.