Method for enhanced event specific features on personal video recorders

• US 7,543,322 B1
• Filed: 05/06/2008
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hamilton, Rick A III, Boss, Greg J, Bhogal, Kulvir S, Polozoff, Alexandre, O'Connell, Brian M
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelley; Christopher
• Assistant Examiner(s): Newlin; Timothy R
• Application Number:
  US12/115,781
• Time in Patent Office: 392 Days
• Field of Search: 725/46, 725/58, 725/40, 725/41, 725/43, 725/38, 725/39, 725/47, 725/52
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• 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 21/44224 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 21/4583 Automatically resolving scheduling conflicts, e.g. when a recording by reservation has been programmed for two programs in the same time slot
• 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 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739

Abstract

A method for enhanced presentation of sports audio video (A/V) content, the method includes: receiving a user'"'"'s preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and sporting event viewing and recording; inferring additional user preferences from the user'"'"'s actions and behavior; determining if a circumstance has occurred in the sporting events being monitored in the EPG, or in the process of being recorded or stored that will trigger a change in at least one of: the EPG, the recording of the sporting events, or the sporting events being stored; changing at least one of: the EPG, the recording of the sporting events, or the one or more sporting events being stored in response to the triggering circumstance; and wherein the determining if a circumstance has occurred is based on at least one of the following: A/V information contained in a broadcast signal, a web service, or a RSS.

Claims

1. A method for enhanced presentation of sports audio video (A/V) content, wherein the method comprises:

receiving a user'"'"'s preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and sporting event viewing and recording;

inferring additional user preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and sporting event viewing and recording from the user'"'"'s actions and behavior;

determining if a circumstance has occurred in one or more sporting events being monitored in the EPG, or in the process of being recorded or stored that will trigger a change in at least one of;

the EPG, the recording of the one or more sporting events, or the one or more sporting events being stored;

wherein the determining if a circumstance has occurred is based on at least one of the following;

A/V information contained in a broadcast signal, a web service, or a really simple syndication (RSS) feed;

changing the EPG in response to the triggering circumstance, wherein the changing of the EPG further comprises removing or adding one or more sporting event listings in the EPG based on the sporting event'"'"'s score differential, while the one or more sporting events are in progress;

removing recorded sports programming with a final score differential exceeding a predefined or the user specified threshold;

removing recorded sports programming in which the user'"'"'s favorite team lost;

retaining segments of a sports recording surrounding a score change;

providing real-time notification of score changes, comebacks, and upsets occurring in the one or more sporting events;

wherein the type of real-time notification is inferred from a sport being watched by the user; and

generating highlight recordings of the one or more sporting events.