EXCHANGING DIGITAL CONTENT

• US 20140019553A1
• Filed: 09/16/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: AOL Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bill, David S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,203,882 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

Abstract

A first content selection stored on a portable media device is associated with a first tag. In addition, a second tag that is associated with a second content selection and that indicates that supplemental content related to the second content selection is stored on a peer device is accessed from a peer device. The first tag is compared to the second tag, and, if a commonality shared by the first content selection and the second content selection is identified, an exchange of the supplemental content from the peer device to the portable media device is initiated.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A method of sharing supplemental information with mobile peer devices, the method comprising the following steps performed by one or more processors:

displaying, on a first mobile peer device, media content;

generating, in response to user interaction with the media content, supplemental information;

detecting a second mobile peer device that is in geographic proximity to the first mobile peer device; and

transmitting the supplemental information from the first mobile peer device to the second mobile peer device so that the second mobile peer device can display the supplemental information with the media content if second mobile peer device contains the media content.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein detecting the second mobile peer device comprises:

detecting the second mobile peer device by transmitting a request for the supplemental information from the first mobile peer device and by receiving an acknowledgement from the second peer device.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

requesting supplemental information that favors the media content.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

requesting supplemental information that disfavors the media content.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein detecting the second mobile peer device comprises:

detecting the second mobile peer device by receiving a broadcast from the second mobile peer device.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the supplemental information comprises at least one of text, symbols, audio, and video.

25. A method of sharing supplemental information with mobile peer devices, the method comprising the following steps performed by one or more processors:

generating, in response to user interaction with media content at a first mobile peer device, supplemental information;

associating the supplemental information with the media content;

detecting a second mobile peer device that is in geographic proximity to the first mobile peer device; and

transmitting the supplemental information from the first mobile peer device to the second mobile peer device so that the second mobile peer device can display the supplemental information with the media content if second mobile peer device contains the media content.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein associating the supplemental information with the media content comprises:

associating the supplemental information with at least a part of the media content that is recently perceived.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein detecting the second mobile peer device comprises:

detecting the second mobile peer device by transmitting a request for the supplemental information from the first mobile peer device and by receiving an acknowledgement from the second peer device.

28. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

requesting supplemental information that favors the media content.

29. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

requesting supplemental information that disfavors the media content.

30. The method of claim 25, wherein detecting the second mobile peer device comprises:

detecting the second mobile peer device by receiving a broadcast from the second mobile peer device.

31. The method of claim 25, wherein the supplemental information comprises at least one of text, symbols, audio, and video.

32. A method of sharing supplemental information with mobile peer devices, the method comprising the following steps performed by one or more processors:

displaying, on a first mobile peer device, media content;

generating, in response to user interaction with the media content, supplemental information;

detecting a second mobile peer device that is in a predetermined geographic region; and

transmitting the supplemental information from the first mobile peer device to the second mobile peer device so that the second mobile peer device can display the supplemental information with the media content if second mobile peer device contains the media content.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein detecting the second mobile peer device comprises:

detecting the second mobile peer device by transmitting a request for the supplemental information from the first mobile peer device and by receiving an acknowledgement from the second peer device.

34. The method of claim 33, further comprising:

requesting the supplemental information that favors the media content.

35. The method of claim 33, further comprising:

requesting the supplemental information that disfavors the media content.

36. The method of claim 32, wherein detecting the second mobile peer device comprises:

detecting the second mobile peer device by receiving a broadcast from the second mobile peer device.

37. The method of claim 32, wherein the supplemental information comprises at least one of text, symbols, audio, and video.