SYNCHRONIZING SECONDARY CONTENT TO A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
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Abstract
In various embodiments, secondary content synchronized to a multimedia presentation is delivered. An audio signal is sampled with a local application and transmitted to a remote server. The remote server determines secondary content associated with the audio sample and transmits the secondary content to the local application for display thereat.
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75 Claims
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40. A method of synchronizing delivery of secondary content compatible with a plurality of multimedia and social network sources to a content display device , the secondary content associated with and synchronized with at least one of an original transmission and a previous transmission of a multimedia presentation, the method comprising:
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sampling and extracting, in real-time and at a first temporal location, an audio sample from the multimedia presentation; determining, based at least in part on the audio sample, a second temporal location within the at least one of the original transmission and the previous transmission, the second temporal location corresponding to the first temporal location of the multimedia presentation; identifying secondary content referenced to the second temporal location of the at least one of the original transmission and the previous transmission; synchronizing, in real-time and at the first temporal location, the identified secondary content associated with the at least one of the original transmission and the previous transmission to the multimedia presentation; and transmitting the identified secondary content to the content display device over a network such that the identified secondary content associated with the at least one of the original transmission and the previous transmission can be viewed on the content display device in synchronization with the multimedia presentation. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A system for synchronizing deliver of content to a content delivery device during a multimedia presentation, the system comprising:
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a local server for sampling and extracting in real-time and at a first temporal location, an audio sample from the multimedia presentation; computer memory for receiving and storing the audio sample of the multimedia presentation; an audio-processing module for identifying, based on the audio sample, the multimedia presentation and for determining a second temporal location of the audio sample in at least one of an original transmission and a previous transmission of the multimedia presentation; a content-processing module for identifying, based on the second temporal location of the audio sample, secondary content referenced to the second temporal location of the at least one of the original transmission and the previous transmission; and a transmitter for transmitting the identified secondary content to the local server, the identified secondary content being synchronized to the multimedia presentation. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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64. The system of claim 64, wherein the display device displays the multimedia presentation and the content display device displays the identified secondary content.
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