INTERFACING A TELEVISION WITH A SECOND DEVICE

• US 20140267909A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Liu, Eric HC, Chan, Haywai Hayward
• Granted Patent: US 9,712,776 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/552
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• 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 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82

Abstract

A system and method for interfacing a television with a second device is provided. The system includes an interfacing unit to enter an interfacing mode between the television mode and the second device; a card storage unit to store a first card and a second card, the first card being presently displayed on the television and the second card being previously displayed on the television; a current card display register to store the first card; an interactive retrieval unit to retrieve a plurality of interactive functions associated with the first card, the plurality of interactive functions configured to instigate an action via the second device; and a display unit to display the first card and the plurality of interactive functions in response to being in the interfacing mode.

Claims

1. A system for interfacing a television with a second device, comprising:

a data store comprising a computer readable medium storing a program of instructions for the interfacing;

a processor that executes the program of instructions;

an interfacing unit to enter an interfacing mode between the television mode and the second device;

a card storage unit to store a first card and a second card, the first card being presently displayed on the television and the second card being previously displayed on the television;

a current card display register to store the first card;

an interactive retrieval unit to retrieve a plurality of interactive functions associated with the first card, the plurality of interactive functions configured to instigate an action via the second device; and

a display unit to display the first card and the plurality of interactive functions in response to being in the interfacing mode.

2. The system according claim 1, wherein the second device is configured to allow an access of the second card, and a plurality of interactive functions associated with the second card.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the interfacing mode is automatically entered into.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the interfacing mode is manually entered into.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of functions is to message data associated with the first card to a third device or another user.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the first card or the second card is a content identification (content-id).

8. A method, implemented on a processor, for interfacing a television with a second device, comprising:

activating, using the processor, an interfacing mode between the television and the second device;

receiving, using the processor, a card associated with a display on the television;

storing, using the processor, the card in a persistent store;

retrieving, using the processor, a plurality of interactive functions associated with the card, the plurality of interactive functions configured to instigate an action via the second device; and

displaying, using the processor, the card along with the plurality of interactive functions associated with the card.

7. The system according to claim 8, wherein one of the plurality of functions is an access to an online data source for information pertaining to the content-id.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising maintaining a second card, the second card previously being displaying on the television.

10. The method according claim 9, wherein the second device is configured to allow an access of the second card, and a plurality of interactive functions associated with the second card.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the interfacing mode is automatically entered into.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the interfacing mode is manually entered into.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein one of the plurality of functions is to message data associated with the card to a third device or another user.

14. A method, implemented on a processor, for interfacing a television with a second device, comprising:

activating, using the processor, an interfacing mode between the television and the second device;

detecting, using the processor, a content-identification (content-id) associated with the television;

receiving, using the processor, a card associated with the content-id;

storing, using the processor, the card in a persistent store;

retrieving, using the processor, a plurality of interactive functions associated with the card, the plurality of interactive functions configured to instigate an action via the second device; and

displaying, using the processor, the card along with the associated plurality of interactive functions.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising activating a content-id mode.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein one of the plurality of functions is an access to an online data source for information pertaining to the content-id.

17. The method according to claim 14, further comprising maintaining a second card, the second card previously being displaying on the television.

18. The method according claim 14, wherein the second device is configured to allow an access of the second card, and a plurality of interactive functions associated with the second card.

19. The method according to claim 14, wherein the interfacing mode is automatically entered into.

20. The method according to claim 14, wherein the interfacing mode is manually entered into.