Delivering enhanced content to broadcast media receivers with internet connection and enhancing user experience
First Claim
1. In a system comprising a category 1, 2, 3 or 4 host device having a microprocessor, memory, user interface controls, display and audio circuitry to playback audio or video program data and metadata to a user of said host device and having “
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comprising any combination of hardware, software and/or firmware to control said host device and having circuitry and software for making bidirectional digital communications over the internet or a Short Message Service (hereafter SMS) data path either directly or through a cellular system data path or through a wifi hot spot or indirectly through a computer or other device to which said host device is docked and which has an internet connection, the improvement comprising;
a broadcast receiver in or coupled to said host device that has circuitry including client application software that functions to control said broadcast receiver to receive auxiliary metadata broadcast in band or out of band with a primary media program broadcast using any of the following standards;
FM+RBDS/RDS or IBOC or DAB or ATSC, or Mobile ATSC or DVB or any data broadcast protocol or standard developed in the future which allows metadata to be broadcast either in band or out of band or both along with digital or analog primary media programming, said receiver system also having circuitry including said client application software which functions to provide said received primary media program and said received metadata to said host device for display and/or playback and which can control said host device to make upstream communications over the internet or said SMS data path;
and wherein the term “
circuitry”
used anywhere in this claim or its dependent claims means any combination of hardware circuits, software and/or firmware controlling hardware circuits, the combination being able to perform the stated function(s).
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Abstract
Adding relevant metadata to downstream media broadcasts to devices such as smart phones, MP3 music players, tablet computers, etc. equipped with media broadcast receivers such as IBOC, DAB etc will enable enhanced user-experience such as easy and faster content access, content format customization, content storage, integration with social networking sites etc. The host devices having the broadcast receivers on board have a full time or part time internet connection to provide an independent upstream and downstream digital data communication path for the functionality of the broadcast receiver. This will enable new possibilities in media-broadcast-receivers, which are normally limited with only downstream data channel. The possibilities include enhanced content access browsing, podcast access, exploring more information about the program content, easy integration with social networking sites etc. The devices are controlled to display or playback advertisements, images etc. in the metadata, detect click events indicating interest by a user in something and communicate that click event upstream over a full time or part time internet or an SMS data path connection. The transmitters have structure to insert metadata in band or out of band with the media broadcast program content.
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37 Claims
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1. In a system comprising a category 1, 2, 3 or 4 host device having a microprocessor, memory, user interface controls, display and audio circuitry to playback audio or video program data and metadata to a user of said host device and having “
- circuitry”
comprising any combination of hardware, software and/or firmware to control said host device and having circuitry and software for making bidirectional digital communications over the internet or a Short Message Service (hereafter SMS) data path either directly or through a cellular system data path or through a wifi hot spot or indirectly through a computer or other device to which said host device is docked and which has an internet connection, the improvement comprising;a broadcast receiver in or coupled to said host device that has circuitry including client application software that functions to control said broadcast receiver to receive auxiliary metadata broadcast in band or out of band with a primary media program broadcast using any of the following standards;
FM+RBDS/RDS or IBOC or DAB or ATSC, or Mobile ATSC or DVB or any data broadcast protocol or standard developed in the future which allows metadata to be broadcast either in band or out of band or both along with digital or analog primary media programming, said receiver system also having circuitry including said client application software which functions to provide said received primary media program and said received metadata to said host device for display and/or playback and which can control said host device to make upstream communications over the internet or said SMS data path;and wherein the term “
circuitry”
used anywhere in this claim or its dependent claims means any combination of hardware circuits, software and/or firmware controlling hardware circuits, the combination being able to perform the stated function(s). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A transmitter for transmitting a broadcast program stream according to a predetermined standard, the improvement comprising:
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circuitry to transmit auxiliary digital metadata along with a broadcast program stream, said broadcast program stream being transmitted according to a predetermined standard, said metadata being transmitted on a digital subchannel of said predetermined standard and which is either in band or out of band with the band upon which said broadcast program stream is transmitted; and wherein the term “
circuitry”
as used in this claim and its dependent claims includes any combination of hardware circuits, software or firmware which can perform the stated function. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37)
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