Method and System for Representing Collective and Individual Responses to a Shared Experience Event

• US 20140046861A1
• Filed: 08/10/2013
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James E. Dodson
• Original Assignee: James E. Dodson
• Inventors: Dodson, James E.
• Application Number:
  US13/964,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20140046861A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A web-based application for use on a mobile device allows a user to provide response input indicating the user'"'"'s current positive/negative response, opinion, reaction, to an event or other shared experience and “publish” the response input data by broadcasting it to one or more other users or by providing the response input data to a centralized or distributed database or other repository of response input data from other individuals experiencing the same event. The application may acquire response input data from the repository or directly from one or more other users and display acquired response input data graphically or in some other concise and meaningful format that visually conveys the acquired response input data collectively and/or by individuals or groups or subgroups of individuals, thereby providing a means to acquire and characterize the time varying responses, opinions, and reactions of a population sharing the experience of an event or other stimulus.

Claims

1. A method for representing responses to an event, the method comprising:

receiving, from a user device associated with a recognized user, response data corresponding to user input indicative of a user response to an event and a time associated with the user input;

incorporating the response data into event data associated with the event, wherein the event data includes response data associated with the event from a plurality of users; and

responsive to receiving, from a requesting device, an event data request identifying the event and indicating an audience of interest, sending the requested event data to the requesting device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the event comprises a performance witnessed by an audience.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the performance is a live performance and the audience is a live audience attending the live performance.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the performance is selected from:

a concert, a competition, a movie, a play, a lecture, a demonstration, a ceremony, and a rally.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance comprises a prerecorded multimedia program and the audience comprises a home audience.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the audience of interest is selected from:

the user, an individual other than the user experiencing the event, and a group of individuals experiencing the event.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining group response data corresponding to the group of individuals, wherein the group response data is indicative of a collective response of the group of individuals to the event as a function of time.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the collective response is based on an average of the response data received from the audience of interest.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the average of the response data is a weighted average, wherein a weighting of the response data is based on a weighting factor.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the weighting factor is associated with a characteristic and wherein a value of the characteristic for an individual is indicated in the profile of individual.

11. A client device method, comprising:

responsive to receiving first user input indicative of an event, from a client device associated with a user, associating the user with the event;

responsive to receiving second user input indicative a user response to the event, sending response data indicative of the user response and a time associated with the user response to a recipient;

responsive to receiving third user input indicating an audience of interest;

sending an event data request identifying an audience of interest; and

responsive to receiving requested data corresponding to the event data request, generating a response data display indicative of the requested data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a first user interface indicating a plurality of events; and

receiving the first user input based on a user interaction with the first user interface.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

generating a response user interface; and

receiving the second user input from user interaction with the response user interface.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the audience of interest comprises an audience selected from:

the user, another individual experiencing the event, a population of all individuals experiencing the event, a subgroup of the individuals experiencing the event.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the subgroup of individuals may be associated with a social network group defined by the user.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the subgroup of individuals may be indicated by indicating a desired characteristic of the subgroup.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the response data display includes a ripple line indicating a magnitude of the requested response data as a function of time.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein receiving user response data comprises detecting a distance between a position of a user interaction with the response data display and a midline of the display.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the response data display includes a plurality of ripple lines associated with a plurality of audiences of interest.

20. A client device, comprising:

a processor;

a touch screen display;

a wireless communication interface; and

a computer readable memory, accessible to the processor, including program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the method of claim 11.

21. An application server, comprising:

a processor;

a wireless communication interface; and

a computer readable memory, accessible to the processor, including program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a user device associated with a recognized user, response data corresponding to user input indicative of a user response to an event and a time associated with the user input;

incorporating the response data into event data associated with the event, wherein the event data includes response data associated with the event from a plurality of users; and

responsive to receiving, from a requesting device, an event data request identifying the event and indicating an audience of interest, sending the requested event data to the requesting device.