VIDEO INTERACTION

• US 20140013381A1
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Herigstad, Dale A., Kargman, Harry B.
• Application Number:
  US14/024,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20140013381A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/141
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/242 Synchronization processes, e.g. processing of PCR [Program Clock References] arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems in broadcast distribution systems H04H20/18
• 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 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6156 specially adapted to the upstream path of the transmission network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Interactive material is delivered at least partly wirelessly to a mobile device in the vicinity of a video device on which video content is being displayed, the interactive material being related to the video content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving at a server, from a mobile device, an identification of video content being delivered over a first communication path to a video device , the video content being displayed on the video device, the mobile device being in the vicinity of the video device;

identifying at the server interactive material related to the video content, and

delivering the interactive material from the server to the mobile device over a second communication path, the second communication path separate from the first communication path over which the video content is delivered, the interactive material presented on the mobile device to a user of the mobile device in synchronization with the display of the video content on the video device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user indication of interest in the interactive material.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

generating tags in response to the user indication of interest in the interactive material, the tags including embedded links to interactivity information.

4. The method claim 3, further comprising:

delivering the tags to the mobile device, the tags selectable by a user subsequent to a completion of the display of the video content in order to obtain information related to the video content.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the interactive material is presented to the user in a time synchronized manner so that the interactive material automatically changes with the video content being displayed on the video device.

6. The method of claim 5 in which the server broadcasts tags that are part of the time synchronized interactive material associated with the video content being then displayed on the video device, the tags selectable by the user to indicate a user'"'"'s interest in the interactive material.

7. The method of claim 1 in which the interactive material includes information in the form of at least one of text, images, video and audio.

8. The method of claim 1 in which the interactive material includes a selectable element for receiving input from the user.

9. A non-transitory medium holding computer-executable instructions that when executed cause at least one computing device to:

receive at a server, from a mobile device, an identification of video content being delivered over a first communication path to a video device , the video content being displayed on the video device, the mobile device being in the vicinity of the video device;

identify at the server interactive material related to the video content, and

deliver the interactive material from the server to the mobile device over a second communication path, the second communication path separate from the first communication path over which the video content is delivered, the interactive material presented on the mobile device to a user of the mobile device in synchronization with the display of the video content on the video device.

10. The medium of claim 9 wherein the instructions when executed further cause the at least one computing device to:

receive a user indication of interest in the interactive material.

11. The medium of claim 10 wherein the instructions when executed further cause the at least one computing device to:

generate tags in response to the user indication of interest in the interactive material, the tags including embedded links to interactivity information.

12. The medium claim 11 wherein the instructions when executed further cause the at least one computing device to:

deliver the tags to the mobile device, the tags selectable by a user subsequent to a completion of the display of the video content in order to obtain information related to the video content.

13. The medium of claim 9 wherein the interactive material is presented to the user in a time synchronized manner so that the interactive material automatically changes with the video content being displayed on the video device.

14. The medium of claim 13 in which the server broadcasts tags that are part of the time synchronized interactive material associated with the video content being then displayed on the video device, the tags selectable by the user to indicate a user'"'"'s interest in the interactive material.

15. The medium of one of claim 9 in which the interactive material includes information in the form of at least one of text, images, video and audio.

16. The medium of claim 9 in which the interactive material includes a selectable element for receiving input from the user.