Methods and systems for dynamically providing access to enhanced content during a presentation of a media content instance

• US 20120054610A1
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Archer, Don G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,701,043 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• 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

Exemplary methods and systems for dynamically providing access to enhanced content during a presentation of a media content instance are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes an enhanced content access system detecting a presentation of a media content instance, analyzing a stream of text associated with the media content instance to obtain one or more keywords each corresponding to at least one of a plurality of portions of the media content instance, selecting one or more enhanced content instances associated with the media content instance in accordance with the one or more keywords, and dynamically displaying one or more display elements each representative of an enhanced content instance included in the one or more enhanced content instances in a graphical user interface during the presentation of the media content instance. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting, by an enhanced content access system, a presentation of a media content instance;

analyzing, by the enhanced content access system, a stream of text associated with the media content instance to obtain one or more keywords each corresponding to at least one of a plurality of portions of the media content instance;

selecting, by the enhanced content access system, one or more enhanced content instances associated with the media content instance in accordance with the one or more keywords; and

dynamically displaying, by the enhanced content access system during the presentation of the media content instance, one or more display elements each representative of an enhanced content instance included in the one or more enhanced content instances in a graphical user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the stream of text comprises a closed caption stream.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing the stream of text to obtain the one or more keywords comprises removing one or more noise words from the text to obtain the one or more keywords.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more enhanced content instances are selected from one or more enhanced content sources comprising at least one of a social media source, a media content source, a retail product source, a news source, an advertisement source, and an Internet search engine.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more display elements are organized into one or more columns of the graphical user interface.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each column included in the one or more columns is associated with a particular enhanced content source or a particular enhanced content category.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the one or more enhanced content instances comprise a first enhanced content instance selected in accordance with a first keyword included in the one or more keywords and a second enhanced content instance selected in accordance with a second keyword included in the one or more keywords, the first keyword corresponding to a first portion included in the plurality of portions of the media content instance and the second keyword corresponding to a second portion included in the plurality of portions of the media content instance;

the one or more display elements comprise at least a first display element representative of the first enhanced content instance and a second display element representative of the second enhanced content instance; and

the dynamically displaying comprises displaying the first display element in the graphical user interface during a first time period associated with a presentation of the first portion of the media content instance and displaying the second display element in the graphical user interface during a second time period associated with a presentation of the second portion of the media content instance.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first and second time periods at least partially overlap.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the second time period follows a completion of the first time period, and wherein the dynamically displaying further comprises replacing the first display element with the second display element in the graphical user interface.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the dynamically displaying of the one or more display elements comprises displaying the one or more display elements on a display separate from a display used to present the media content instance.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the display used to present the media content instance comprises a display associated with a set-top box device; and

the display separate from the display used to present the media content instance comprises a display associated with a separate mobile access device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the detecting comprises detecting, by the mobile access device, a presentation of the media content instance by the set-top box device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the analyzing and the selecting is performed in real time during the presentation of the media content instance.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the mobile access system, a selection by the user of a display element included in the one or more display elements; and

displaying, by the mobile access system in response to the selection, an enhanced content instance included in the one or more enhanced content instances and corresponding to the at least one display element.

15. The method of claim 1, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

16. A method comprising:

detecting, by an enhanced content access system, a presentation of a media content instance;

analyzing, by the enhanced content access system, a stream of text associated with the media content instance to obtain a plurality of keywords comprising a first keyword corresponding to a first portion of the media content instance and a second keyword corresponding to a second portion of the media content instance;

selecting, by the enhanced content access system, a first enhanced content instance in accordance with the first keyword and a second enhanced content instance in accordance with the second keyword;

displaying, by the enhanced content access system, a first display element representative of the first enhanced content instance in a graphical user interface during a time period associated with a presentation of the first portion of the media content instance; and

displaying, by the enhanced content access system, a second display element representative of the second enhanced content instance in the graphical user interface during a time period associated with a presentation of the second portion of the media content instance.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first and second time periods at least partially overlap.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the second time period follows a completion of the first time period.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the displaying the second display element further comprises replacing the first display element with the second display element in the graphical user interface.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the stream of text comprises a closed caption stream.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein at least one of the analyzing and the selecting is performed in real time during the presentation of the media content instance.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the analyzing the stream of text to obtain the plurality of keywords comprises removing one or more noise words from the stream of text to obtain the first keyword and the second keyword.

23. The method of claim 16, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

24. A system comprising:

a detection facility configured detect a presentation of a media content instance;

a text analysis facility communicatively coupled to the detection facility and configured to analyze a stream of text associated with the media content instance to obtain one or more keywords each corresponding to at least one of a plurality of portions of the media content instance; and

an enhanced content management facility communicatively coupled to the text analysis facility and configured to select one or more enhanced content instances associated with the media content instance in accordance with the one or more keywords and to dynamically display one or more display elements each representative of an enhanced content instance included in the one or more enhanced content instances in a graphical user interface during the presentation of the media content instance.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein:

the one or more keywords comprises a first keyword corresponding to a first portion included in the plurality of portions of the media content instance and a second keyword corresponding to a second portion included in the plurality of portions of the media content instance;

the text analysis facility is further configured to select a first enhanced content instance in accordance with the first keyword and a second enhanced content instance in accordance with the second keyword;

the one or more display elements comprise a first display element representative of the first enhanced content instance and a second display element representative of the second enhanced content instance; and

the enhanced content management facility is further configured to display the first display element in the graphical user interface during a first time period associated with a presentation of the first portion of the media content instance and displaying the second display element in the graphical user interface during a second time period associated with a presentation of the second portion of the media content instance.