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INTERACTIVE VIDEO PROGRAM PROVIDING LINEAR VIEWING EXPERIENCE

  • US 20130094830A1
  • Filed: 06/22/2012
  • Published: 04/18/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computing device, a method of creating an interactive video program that includes multiple viewing routes, the interactive video program providing a linear video viewing experience through each of the multiple viewing routes, the method comprising:

  • combining a first interactive video segment of a first type and a second interactive video segment of a second, different type than the first interactive video segment to form the interactive video program,the first interactive video segment comprising a first video component, a second video component related to the first video component, and metadata that includes information related to a possible user input during the first video component that is configured to trigger the second video component and that also includes information identifying the first interactive video segment as being of the first type;

    the second interactive video segment comprising a third video component and also comprising metadata identifying the second interactive video segment as being of the second type, andthe interactive video program further comprising;

    an active viewing route that proceeds through the first interactive video segment and the second interactive video segment, and includes playback of the second video component, the active viewing route configured to be triggered by receipt of an actual user input that corresponds to the possible user input; and

    a passive viewing route that proceeds through the first interactive video segment and the second interactive video segment without playback of the second video component, the passive viewing route configured to be followed where no user input corresponding to the possible user input is received.

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