METHOD OF CONDUCTING A LIVE, REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE REALITY SHOW FOR PEOPLE TO SEEK ADVICE

• US 20120022918A1
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Ross
• Original Assignee: David Ross
• Inventors: Ross, David
• Application Number:
  US13/187,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20120022918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.32
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• 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

Abstract

A live, real-time interactive reality show is provided via multiple concurrent communication channels, including television broadcast, the internet, radio broadcast, cell phone airways, and landline phone lines. There are further included advice seekers and an audience that can utilize computers, televisions, cell phones, radios and landline phone lines to interact with or watch the reality show. Online web formats, including websites, blogs and other formats and cell phone applications, email, text messaging, and mobile applications may also be used to interact with or watch the reality show. The advice seekers interact in a live real-time unscripted manner. The audience may also be asked to offer advice and communicate it in real-time via a communication method, including the internet, email, text messaging, web cams, cell phones, land line phones, and mobile applications. The format of the real-time interactive reality show may be online via a web-based format, a television interview show format, a telephone call-in radio talk show format, a cellular phone interview format, or any combination of formats.

Claims

1. A method of conducting a live, real-time interactive show for people to seek advice, the method comprising:

presenting one or more questions during the live, real-time interactive show through one or more communication channels over one or more computer networks, the one or more questions being presented to a host, celebrity or public figure from an advice seeker;

receiving a plurality of pieces of advice in response to the presented one or more questions during the live, real-time interactive show through the one or more communication channels over the one or more computer networks;

determining a representative piece of advice from the plurality of pieces of advice; and

transmitting the representative piece of advice to the advice seeker.

2. The method according to claim 1, transmitting the representative piece of advice includes sending data that causes visual display of the representative piece of advice.

3. The method according to claim 1, transmitting the representative piece of advice includes transmission methods of broadcasting on the internet, television, and radio.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the host, celebrity or public figure for the live, real-time interactive show based on polling for name recognition of the host, celebrity or public figure.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the host, celebrity or public figure based on the popularity of at least one of a television show, motion picture, musical presentation, play, sports team and general news program associated with the host, celebrity or public figure.

6. The method according to claim 1, presenting the one or more questions to the host, celebrity or public figure includes providing data that will cause the one or more questions to audibly play the host, celebrity or public figure.

7. The method according to claim 1, presenting the one or more questions to the host, celebrity or public figure further includes visually providing the question to the host, celebrity or public figure.

8. The method according to claim 1, the advice seeker is in a remote location apart from the location of the live, real-time interactive show.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

presenting to the advice seeker or a member of a studio audience of the live, real-time interactive show information on products and services of a sponsor of the live, real-time interactive show on a display device.

10. The method according to claim 9, presenting to the advice seeker or the member of the studio audience information on products and services of the sponsor of the live, real-time interactive show on the display device based on at least one of key words communicated in the one or more questions, a topic of the one or more questions, or a location of the advice seeker or the member of the studio audience.

11. The method according to claim 1, the one or more questions include at least four sequential questions indirectly associated with the host, celebrity or public figure.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing data causing a congratulatory message to audibly play to a greater audience from the host, celebrity or public FIG. 1f the representative piece of advice is voted the as the top piece of advice from the plurality of pieces of advice by the host, celebrity or public figure, or the greater audience.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

playing a consoling message to the advice seeker from the host, celebrity or public FIG. 1f the representative piece of advice given is not liked by the advice seeker.

14. A computer readable medium having computer-instructions causing a processor to execute a method for conducting a live, in real time interactive conversation between a host, celebrity or public figure, and an advice seeker, the method comprising:

presenting a question to the host, celebrity or public figure from the advice seeker during the live, in real time interactive conversation;

receiving advice options from an audience during the live, in real time interactive conversation, the audience includes at least one of a studio audience and a remote audience at a different location than the host, celebrity or public figure;

determining which of the advice options are viable should be presented to the advice seeker as an answer to the question presented; and

offering the viable advice options to the advice seeker during the live, in real time interactive conversation based on the advice options.

15. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

adjusting an audience ranking if the viable advice options offered are voted acceptable options by a greater audience, and if a piece of advice given by the host, celebrity or public figure matches any of the viable advice options offered and voted as acceptable options by the greater audience.

16. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

selecting the celebrity for the competition based on internet search requests for the celebrity.

17. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

selecting the celebrity for the competition based on polling among a greater audience for name recognition of the celebrity.

18. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

selecting the host, celebrity or public figure for the competition based on a popularity of at least one of a television show, motion picture, musical presentation, play, sports team and general news program associated with the host, celebrity or public figure.

19. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

providing the host, celebrity or public figure with a score in a rating system that includes other scores of different hosts, celebrities or public figures.

20. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, presenting the question to the host, celebrity or public figure includes providing data that causes the question to audibly play to the host, celebrity or public figure.

21. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, presenting the question to the host, celebrity or public figure includes sending data that causes the question to be visually displayed to the host, celebrity or public figure on a display device.

22. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

presenting advice given by the host, celebrity or public figure that is visually displayed on a display device.

23. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

introducing the host, celebrity or public figure to the advice seeker.

24. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

providing an electronic link to information on products and services of a sponsor for the live, in real time interactive conversation on a display device.

25. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

receiving multiple questions indirectly associated with the host, celebrity or public figure.

26. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising presenting a link to a discussion about the question.

27. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising providing data causing a congratulatory message to audibly play to the audience from the host, celebrity or public FIG. 1f the advice options received from the audience matches advice associated with the host, celebrity or public figure.

28. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

providing data that causes a consoling message to audibly play to the audience from the host, celebrity or public FIG. 1f the advice options received from the audience do not match advice given from the host, celebrity or public figure.

29. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, further comprising:

providing visual data and audio data representing the viable advice options for transmission over at least one communications network.