SYSTEM, METHOD AND INTERFACE FOR PRESENTING EVENT COVERAGE USING PLURAL CONCURRENT INTERFACE PORTIONS

• US 20150358680A1
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fox Sports Productions, LLC (Fox Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fox Sports Productions, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Pierce, Clark, Dean, Jon M., Feldstein, David, Kuttler, Ryan
• Granted Patent: US 10,462,533 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• 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

Abstract

A system, method and interface for presenting event coverage using plural concurrent interface portions is provided including concurrent interface portions, each interface portion including different classes of event information.

Claims

1. A system for presenting soccer event coverage using plural concurrent interface portions, comprising:

a user display, configured with plural concurrent interface portions, each interface portion including different classes of soccer information, wherein each interface portion is provided by a processor that is configure to deliver and update information relevant to a soccer event.

2. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said user display includes two or more of:

a statistics or social media interface portion;

a score interface portion;

an event tracking interface portion; and

a high-level chronology-based interface portion.

3. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said user display includes a statistics or social media interface portion that is configured to alternately provide access to relevant statistics for the event and access to aggregated social media streams pertaining to the event.

4. A system in accordance with claim 3, wherein said user interface provides tabs or other selectable operators allowing a user to switch viewing modes.

5. A system in accordance with claim 3, wherein said social media interface is configured to permit a user to select relevant social media sources and to post comments within one or more streams.

6. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said user display includes a score interface portion that is configured to provide relevant status information for the soccer event.

7. A system in accordance with claim 6, wherein said scoring interface includes two or more of:

event timing, soccer field viewing, soccer match statistics and scoring.

8. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said user display includes a soccer event tracking interface portion that is configured to provide visualization of the event'"'"'s discrete occurrences.

9. A system in accordance with claim 8, wherein said visualization is text-based.

10. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said visualization is image-based or animated.

11. A system in accordance with claim 8, wherein said event tracking interface is configured to provide a user the ability to move in a bi-directional way through a time sequence of occurrences.

12. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said user display includes a high-level chronology-based interface portion representing a higher level of all or a subset of discrete occurrences of the event to date.

13. A system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said user display includes a tab or other selectable operator that is configured to turn on or off one or more of the plural interface portions.

14. A system in accordance with claim 13, wherein said tab or other selectable operator provides for an soccer event-tracking mode, which provides a score interface portion and a soccer event tracking interface portion.

15. A system in accordance with claim 13, wherein said tab or other selectable operator provides for an overall event mode, wherein the statistics or social media interface portion and the high-level chronology-based interface portion are presented along with a score interface portion and an event tracking interface portion.

16. A system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a supplemental user interface providing additional rich features, including plural of:

rich animations, definitions of terms, officiating rules, historical video for custom topics, user requested topics, alternate camera angles, replay feeds, social media components, and fantasy sport components.

17. A system in accordance with claim 16, wherein said supplemental user interface with additional rich features is provided by a producer GUI, provided on a publishing platform, wherein the platform is configured such that a producer creates a live experience contemporaneously with the event.

18. A system in accordance with claim 17, wherein occurrences and topics from the event automatically trigger suggestions of relevant data and media to said producer at a producer GUI, allowing the producer to review and publish such data and media.

19. A system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an interface configured to provide statistics with a representation of the last n games graphically within a standings table, allowing views of the result of each game along with temporal interrelationships.

20. A system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an interface configured to provide selectable button within standings listing that yields a graphical display of each team'"'"'s cumulative record.

21. A method for presenting soccer event coverage using plural concurrent interface portions, comprising:

providing at a user display, plural concurrent interface portions, each interface portion including different classes of soccer event information, wherein each interface portion is provided by a processor that is configure to deliver and update information relevant to a live event.

22. An interface for presenting soccer event coverage using plural concurrent interface portions, comprising:

a user display, configured with plural concurrent interface portions, each interface portion including different classes of soccer event information, wherein each interface portion is provided by a processor that is configure to deliver and update information relevant to a live event.