ENHANCED INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICE FOR VIEWED PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF INTERNET TV DEVICE USING MOBILE DEVICE
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Abstract
The user of an Internet TV device can control the Internet TV device using a mobile device such as a smart phone. The smart phone also obtains program information from the Internet TV device and sends the information to a server as a search term, presenting supplemental program information received from the server on the display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of the Internet TV device. The mobile device can also grab a link related to the program from the Internet TV device and use that link as a recommendation to friends on social networking sites.
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19 Claims
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7. Method, comprising:
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accessing using a mobile device communicating with an audio video display device (AVDD) program information from the AVDD; presenting the program information on a display of the mobile device to enable a user of the mobile device to input commands to the AVDD; automatically and transparently to the AVDD sending from the mobile device to a server program information obtained from the AVDD, the information sent to the server including a query for information using a name of the program being presented on the AVDD as a search term and/or an image of an item of interest being presented on the AVDD for identification of the item of interest by the server, which identification is used as a search term; receiving from the server in response to the search term supplemental program information; and presenting the supplemental information on a display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of original playback on the display device. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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9. System including a mobile control device (MCD) comprising:
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display; processor configured for controlling the display and configured to communicate with an audio video display device (AVDD); the processor configured for accessing a computer readable storage medium bearing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to; establish communication with the AVDD; query the AVDD for program information pertaining to a program being currently presented on the AVDD; present on the display current program information from the AVDD; automatically and transparently to the AVDD, send to a server the program information as a query for supplemental program information; receive from the server the supplemental program information; and present on the display the supplemental program information, enabling a user to browse the supplemental program information transparently to the AVDD such that viewers of the AVDD observe none of the supplemental information being browsed on the MCD. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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