INTERNET TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH EMBEDDED REAL-TIME DATA

• US 20110167450A1
• Filed: 10/08/2010
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UV Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: United Video Properties Incorporated (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Demers, Timothy B., Boyer, Franklin E.
• Application Number:
  US12/900,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20110167450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/43
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/748 Hypervideo linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object in the context of video distribution systems H04N21/858
• 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 21/4622 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access television program listings containing embedded real-time data over an Internet communications link. The television program listing may be for a sporting event that is currently being broadcast and the real-time data may be the current score of the event, the current weather where the event is taking place, or any other suitable real-time information on the event. The real-time data may be presented in the form of video stills, video clips, textual information, audio clips, or suitable combinations of such media. The user can perform database searches on the program guide listings to search for a desired program. If desired, the user can obtain additional information on a selected program by accessing an associated web page.

Claims

1. A media guidance system for providing media listings with real-time data embedded within the media listings and additional real-time data to a user at a multimedia system over an Internet communications link, comprising:

a computer system for providing media'"'"'listings with real-time data embedded within the media listings and additional real-time data, wherein said computer system comprises computer readable media for storing said media listings with embedded real-time data and said additional real-time data; and

a web server for receiving the media listings with embedded real-time data and the additional real-time data from the computer system, and for providing the media listings with embedded real-time data and the additional real-time data to the multimedia system over the Internet communications link in response to a user request to access the media listings, said multimedia system comprising computer readable media for;

receiving said media listings with embedded real-time data and said additional real-time data,

displaying said media listings,

automatically displaying said embedded real-time data with said media listings in response to a user request to view all listings, and

in response to receiving a user selection of one of said media listings with embedded real-time data, simultaneously displaying with the media listings and embedded real-time data, in an area of the screen outside of the media listings, said additional real-time data, wherein said additional real-time data comprises textual information related to the selected media listing.