Content Extraction for Television Display

• US 20120254931A1
• Filed: 03/22/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Oztaskent, Ant, Gildfind, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/426,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20120254931A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/112
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a display device that, in response to receiving a network address from a personal computing device, retrieves and presents network based electronic media. In one aspect, a method includes receiving at a user device a first resource referenced by a first resource address, and the first resource includes a second resource address referencing a second resource that is content that is displayed in a content display environment in the first resource page. In response to a selection of the display of the content in the content display environment, the method provide the second resource address to the television device in response to determining that a television device in data communication with the user device has a processing capability to retrieve the content from the second resource address and display the content.

Claims

1. A television processing device, comprising:

a data processing apparatus;

a communication subsystem that transmits and receives data over one or more networks and one or more media; and

a memory device storing instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the user device to perform operations comprising;

receive programming content over a television network and process the television programming content for display on a television display device;

receive a resource address from a user device over a local area network, the resource address referencing content;

receive over the one or more networks the content from the resource address; and

process the content for display on the television display device.

2. The television device of claim 1, wherein to process the content for display on the television display device, the device performs operations comprising:

processing the content to display in a picture-in-picture environment on the television display device, the picture-in-picture environment having a first environment in which the television programming content is displayed and a second environment in which the content is displayed, and wherein the first and second environments are displayed simultaneously.

3. The television device of claim 1, wherein the resource address is a uniform resource locator.

4. The television device of claim 1, wherein the content is H.264 encoded video.

5. The television device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a query, from a requesting user device, for the resource address; and

, providing the resource address to the requesting user device.

6. The television device of claim 1, wherein the television device is implemented as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point on a local area network, wherein the television device is discoverable and communicable by the user device using a UPnP protocol.

7. The television device of claim 1, wherein receiving over the one or more networks the content from the resource address comprises receiving the content over the television network.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving over the one or more networks the content from the resource address comprises receiving the content over the television network.

8. A method implemented in a television processing device, comprising:

receiving, by a television processing device, programming content over a television network and processing the television programming content for display on a television display device;

receiving, by the television processing device, a resource address from a user device over a local area network, the resource address referencing content;

receiving, by the television processing device and over one or more networks, the content from the resource address; and

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processing, by the television processing device, the content for display on the television display device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein processing the content for display on the television display device comprises:

processing the content to display in a picture-in-picture environment on the television display device, the picture-in-picture environment having a first environment in which the television programming content is displayed and a second environment in which the content is displayed, and wherein the first and second environments are displayed simultaneously.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the resource address is a uniform resource locator.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the content is H.264 encoded video.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the television device is implemented as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point on a local area network, wherein the television device is discoverable and communicable by the user device using a UPnP protocol.

14. A computer program stored in a computer readable storage device, the computer program comprising instructions that when executed by a television processing device cause the television processing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving programming content over a television network and process the television programming content for display on a television display device;

receiving a resource address from a user device over a local area network, the resource address referencing content;

receiving over one or more networks the content from the resource address; and

processing the content for display on the television display device.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein processing the content for display on the television display device comprises:

processing the content to display in a picture-in-picture environment on the television display device, the picture-in-picture environment having a first environment in which the television programming content is displayed and a second environment in which the content is displayed, and wherein the first and second environments are displayed simultaneously.

16. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the resource address is a uniform resource locator.

17. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the content is H.264 encoded video.

18. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the television device is implemented as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point on a local area network, wherein the television device is discoverable and communicable by the user device using a UPnP protocol.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein receiving over the one or more networks the content from the resource address comprises receiving the content over the television network.