LOCATION BASED DETERMINATION OF RELATED CONTENT

• US 20140366074A1
• Filed: 06/05/2013
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Billy W., Rakshit, Sarbajit K.
• Granted Patent: US 9,197,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/110
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

In a method for determining other content related to location information of program content displayed on a device, one or more processors receive one or more portions of a first content displayed on a first device. One or more processors determine location information of the one or more portions. One or more processors determine a second content based, at least in part, on the location information. One or more processors cause the determined second content to be displayed.

Claims

1. A method for determining other content related to location information of program content displayed on a device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving one or more portions of a first content displayed on a first device;

one or more processors determining location information of the one or more portions;

the one or more processors determining a second content based, at least in part, on the location information, wherein the second content comprises a video with at least one portion of the second content having substantially similar location information as at least one portion of the one or more portions of the first content; and

causing the determined second content to be displayed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of causing the determined second content to be displayed comprises causing the determined second content to be displayed on the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of causing the determined second content to be displayed comprises causing the determined second content to be displayed on a second device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

determining a map identifying a geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions; and

causing the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of causing the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed comprises causing the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed on the first device.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of causing the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed comprises causing the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed on a second device.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information of the one or more portions comprises GPS coordinates.

22. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

the one or more processors comparing the location information to additional content available from a content provider;

the one or more processors generating a list of additional content available from the content provider, wherein the list comprises content available from the content provider with at least one portion having substantially similar location information as one portion of the one or more portions of the first content; and

causing the list to be displayed.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining a second content based, at least in part, on the location information comprises:

the one or more processors searching the Internet for other content with at least a portion having a substantially similar location information as at least one portion of the one or more portions of the first content; and

the one or more processors identifying the second content from results of searching the Internet for other content with at least a portion having a substantially similar location information as at least one portion of the one or more portions of the first content.

24. The method of claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

the one or more processors causing an indication to be displayed on the map, wherein the indication comprises a location of a point of interest within a specified radius of the location information.

25. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the one or more processors determining weather information based, at least in part, on the location information; and

causing the weather information to be displayed.

2. (canceled)

6. (canceled)

9. A computer program product for determining other content related to location information of program content displayed on a device comprising:

one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive one or more portions of a first content displayed on a first device;

program instructions to determine location information of the one or more portions;

program instructions to determine a second content based, at least in part, on the location information, wherein the second content comprises a video with at least one portion of the second content having substantially similar location information as at least one portion of the one or more portions of the first content; and

program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed comprise program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed on the first device.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed comprise program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed on a second device.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices, to determine a map identifying a geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions; and

program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices, to cause the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions to cause the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed comprise program instructions to cause the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed on the first device.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions to cause the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed comprise program instructions to cause the map identifying the geographic location indicated by the location information of the one or more portions to be displayed on a second device.

10. (canceled)

14. (canceled)

17. A computer system for determining other content related to location information of program content displayed on a device, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices;

program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive one or more portions of a first content displayed on a first device;

program instructions to determine location information of the one or more portions;

program instructions to determine a second content based, at least in part, on the location information, wherein the second content comprises a video with at least one portion of the second content having substantially similar location information as at least one portion of the one or more portions of the first content; and

program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed.

19. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed comprise program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed on the first device.

20. The computer program system of claim 17, wherein the program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed comprise program instructions to cause the determined second content to be displayed on a second device.

18. (canceled)