Techniques for the association, customization and automation of content from multiple sources on a single display

• US 20100049719A1
• Filed: 08/20/2008
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Booth, Cory J., Payne, Michael J., Johnson, Brian David
• Granted Patent: US 8,458,147 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• 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 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• 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 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• 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

Abstract

Techniques for the association, customization and automation of content from multiple sources on a single display device are described. A method includes storing an association rule as defined by a user, where the association rule defines a main content source and an associated content source. When the user accesses the main content source, automatically receiving content from the main content source and content from the associated content source as defined by the association rule. Then, causing the display of the associated content overlayed on the main content via a user interface on a display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a device connected to multiple content sources,

wherein the connected device to store an association rule as defined by a user,

wherein the association rule defines a main content source and an associated content source,

when the user accesses the main content source, the connected device to automatically receive content from the main content source and content from the associated content source as defined by the association rule, and

wherein the connected device to cause the display of the associated content overlayed on the main content via a user interface on a display device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the display device is one of a television, mobile Internet device (MID), cell phone, personal computer (PC) and a laptop computer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the association rule defines more than one associated content sources.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the user interface comprises an associated content section to display the associated content and a main content section to display the main content.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the associated content section to be divided into a number of windows equal to the more than one associated content sources.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the connected device to store a customization rule for the association rule, and wherein the customization rule is automatically executed with the association rule.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the customization rule comprises at least one of a display customization and a trigger customization.

8. A method, comprising:

storing an association rule as defined by a user, wherein the association rule defines a main content source and an associated content source;

when the user accesses the main content source, automatically receiving content from the main content source and content from the associated content source as defined by the association rule; and

causing the display of the associated content overlayed on the main content via a user interface on a display device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the display device is a television, mobile Internet device (MID), cell phone, personal computer (PC) and a laptop computer.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the association rule defines more than one associated content sources.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user interface comprises an associated content section to display the associated content and a main content section to display the main content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the associated content section to be divided into a number of windows equal to the more than one associated content sources.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

storing a customization rule for the association rule; and

automatically executing the customization rule with the association rule.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the customization rule comprises at least one of a display customization and a trigger customization.

15. A machine-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

storing an association rule as defined by a user, wherein the association rule defines a main content source and an associated content source;

when the user accesses the main content source, automatically receiving content from the main content source and content from the associated content source as defined by the association rule; and

causing the display of the associated content overlayed on the main content via a user interface on a display device.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the display device is a television, mobile Internet device (MID), cell phone, personal computer (PC) and a laptop computer.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the association rule defines more than one associated content sources.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the user interface comprises an associated content section to display the associated content and a main content section to display the main content.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the associated content section to be divided into a number of windows equal to the more than one associated content sources.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

storing a customization rule for the association rule; and

automatically executing the customization rule with the association rule, wherein the customization rule comprises at least one of a display customization and a trigger customization.