Method and System for Transforming Content for Execution on Multiple Platforms

• US 20140379855A1
• Filed: 02/21/2014
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TiVo Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TVWorks LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Sahota, Ranjit, Carney, John, De Andrade, David, Knowles, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 10,171,624 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method, comprising:

pre-loading, by a least one computing device, first content in response to determining that second content is scheduled to be distributed;

combining the first content with the second content to generate combined content; and

causing at least a portion of the combined content to be presented.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the first content comprises a commercial.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the pre-loading comprises obtaining the first content from an Internet web page.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the second content comprises a scheduled television program.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the pre-loading comprises requesting the first content via a network and the method further comprises receiving the second content as broadcast content.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein the pre-loading is performed in response to determining that the second content is scheduled to be broadcast.

27. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the first content is stale, obtaining a latest version of the first content.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising using a timestamp of the first content to determine whether the first content is stale.

29. The method of claim 21, wherein the causing comprises causing the combined content to be displayed at a display device.

38. The method of claim 27, further comprising using a timestamp of the first content to determine whether the first content is stale.

30. A method, comprising:

obtaining, by at least one computing device, first content from a plurality of content sources using a capture template in response to determining that second content is scheduled to be distributed;

combining the first content with the second content to generate combined content; and

causing at least a portion of the combined content to be presented.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the plurality of content sources comprises a plurality of Internet web pages.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein the capture template comprises an extensible markup language (XML) file.

33. The method of claim 30, wherein the first content comprises a commercial.

34. The method of claim 30, wherein the second content comprises a scheduled television program.

35. The method of claim 30, further comprising receiving the second content as broadcast content.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein the using is performed in response to determining that the second content is scheduled to be broadcast.

37. The method of claim 30, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the first content is stale, obtaining a latest version of the first content.

39. A method, comprising:

obtaining content, by at least one computing device in anticipation of a scheduled television program; and

causing the content and the television program to be displayed.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein the obtaining comprises obtaining the content using a capture template from a plurality of Internet web pages.