Crowdsourcing Supplemental Content

• US 20140129570A1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Johnson, Derek
• Granted Patent: US 11,115,722 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• 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 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4784 receiving rewards
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content

Abstract

Methods and systems for sourcing supplemental content are disclosed. Secondary devices may be used to identify content streaming on first screen devices and to generate supplemental data for the content. In this manner, users may be leveraged to create various data for a variety of content. The data may be collected and organized so that users watching content at a later time may have access to the data. Methods and systems for using second screen devices to access metadata created by the crowd are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, from a user device, supplemental data associated with primary content, wherein said supplemental data is related to a particular portion of the primary content by associating said supplemental data with audio data from said primary content; and

providing data tags to associate said supplemental data to particular portions of said primary content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user device is configured to allow a user to enter said supplemental data and to detect the audio data from audio, which is output through another user device configured to present the primary content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio data includes an audio profile, representing audio of the primary content, detected at a time to which the supplemental data applies.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio data includes an audio sampling of the primary content taken at a time to which the supplemental data applies.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the primary content to which the supplemental data applies based on the audio data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the supplemental data based on identity of the users submitting the supplemental data.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the supplemental data based on comparisons of textual comment data included in the supplemental data.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising ranking the data tags based on identity of the users submitting the corresponding supplemental data.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing genre information specifying a genre for each of the data tags.

10. A method, comprising:

detecting, by a second device, an audio profile from an audio portion of content being presented on a first device;

receiving, by the second device, a user input including secondary information related to the content;

correlating the user input with the audio profile to associate the secondary information with a particular portion of the content; and

generating a message to represent said association.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the message includes metadata of the content and the detected audio profile.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying the content based on the detected audio profile to generate content identification information; and

determining a time point in the content at which the user input is received,

wherein the message includes the content identification information, the time point, and the secondary information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the identifying of the content comprises:

transmitting the detected audio profile to a third device; and

receiving the content identification information from the third device in response to transmitting the detected audio profile.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying the content based on the detected audio profile to generate content identification information; and

determining a real time point at which the user input is received,

wherein the message includes the content identification information, the real time point, and the secondary information.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving a response indicating whether the message was accepted or rejected.

16. A method, comprising:

providing content to a first user device;

receiving, from a second user device, a message comprising audio profile data and supplemental data, wherein said audio profile data correlates said supplemental data to a particular portion of said content;

identifying the content based on the audio profile data; and

associating said supplemental data with the particular portion of said content.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving, from the second user device, a metadata request comprising an audio profile representing audio of the content at a specific time point within the content;

retrieving one or more metadata tags based on the audio profile of the metadata request; and

transmitting the one or more retrieved metadata tags to the second user device,

wherein the one or more transmitted metadata tags include metadata for the specific time point within the content.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more transmitted metadata tags are ordered based on a user profile associated with the second user device.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more transmitted metadata tags are ordered based on priority levels of users who provided the metadata.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more transmitted metadata tags are transmitted in synchronization with the content playing on the first user device.