Method for providing commentary audio and additional or replacement video content

• US 7,870,589 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2004
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 6, LLC
• Original Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Nickell, Eric S., Thornton, James D., Bobrow, Daniel G., Edwards, W. Keith, Ducheneaut, Nicolas
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelley; Christopher
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLYNN, RANDY A
• Application Number:
  US10/997,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20060174313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,240 Days
• Field of Search: 705/10, 705/14, 705/26, 705/28, 705/1, 705/37, 705/52, 709217-219, 709/223, 725 32- 36, 725 1- 8, 725 86-103, 725135-142
• US Class Current: 725/80
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A method and a computer-usable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method, which provides content to supplement a presentation of an experiential data stream. The method includes a step of receiving a request for content configured to be included in said presentation of the experiential data stream. The method also determines content parameters from the request that are used to select the content. It also provides the content and records appropriate transaction information.

Claims

1. A computer controlled method for providing content to supplement a presentation of an experiential data stream in a shared social space to a local audience member and at least one remote audience member, said method comprising:

receiving, by a networked computer system, a request to provide said content that is targeted to the local audience member of the shared social space;

determining, by said networked computer system, one or more content parameters related to said request;

selecting, by said networked computer system, said content that is targeted to the local audience member in response to determining the content parameters, wherein the selected content that is targeted to the local audience member is different from content that is targeted to at least one remote audience member;

providing, by said networked computer system, the content that is targeted to the local audience member;

monitoring one or more utterances received by a presentation device to determine whether the local and the at least one remote audience members from the shared social space are conversing;

configuring the presentation device to present the content in response to determining that the audience members are conversing; and

configuring the presentation device to present the experiential data stream in response to determining that the audience members have completed their conversation and that presentation of the content for the local and the at least one remote audience members have completed.

2. The computer controlled method of claim 1, further comprising storing said content for access by said networked computer system.

3. The computer controlled method of claim 2, further comprising receiving content at said networked computer system from a creator of said content.

4. The computer controlled method of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises compensating said creator for distribution of said content.

5. The computer controlled method of claim 1, wherein said content is a commentary audio clip.

6. The computer controlled method of claim 1, wherein said content is replacement/additional content.

7. The computer controlled method of claim 6, wherein said replacement/additional content comprises an advertisement.

8. The computer controlled method of claim 6, wherein said replacement/additional content is supplemental content for said experiential data stream, replacement content for said experiential data stream, additional content for said experiential data stream, or commercial content.

9. The computer controlled method of claim 6, wherein said replacement/additional content is related to a targeted portion of said experiential data stream.

10. The computer controlled method of claim 9, wherein said replacement/additional content is a parody content related to said experiential data stream, is additional content available but omitted from said experiential data stream, or is content having a different parental rating than the corresponding content in said targeted portion.

11. The computer controlled method of claim 1, wherein providing the content further comprises shipping a tangible computer-usable data carrier having said content embodied within to satisfy said request.

12. The computer controlled method of claim 1, wherein providing the content further comprises sending said content over said network to satisfy said request.

13. The computer controlled method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises billing responsive to said transaction information.

14. The computer controlled method of claim 1, further comprising capturing demographic information related to said request, wherein said demographic information is used to select the content.

15. A non-transitory computer-usable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause said computer to perform a method for providing content to supplement a presentation of an experiential data stream in a shared social space to a local audience member and at least one remote audience member, said method comprising:

receiving, by a networked computer system, a request to provide said content that is targeted to the local audience member of the shared social space;

determining, by said networked computer system, one or more content parameters related to said request;

selecting, by said networked computer system, said content that is targeted to the local audience member in response to determining the content parameters, wherein the selected content that is targeted to the local audience member is different from content that is targeted to at least one remote audience member;

providing, by said networked computer system, said content that is targeted to the local audience member;

monitoring one or more utterances received by a presentation device to determine whether the local and the at least one remote audience members from the shared social space are conversing;

configuring the presentation device to present the content in response to determining that the audience members are conversing; and

configuring the presentation device to present the experiential data stream in response to determining that the audience members have completed their conversation and that presentation of the content for the local and the at least one remote audience members have completed.

16. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising storing said content for access by said networked computer system.

17. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising receiving content at said networked computer system from a creator of said content.

18. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the product further comprises compensating said creator for distribution of said content.

19. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, wherein said content is a commentary audio clip.

20. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, wherein said content is replacement/additional content.

21. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 20, wherein said replacement/additional content comprises an advertisement.

22. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 20, wherein said replacement/additional content is supplemental content for said experiential data stream, replacement content for said experiential data stream, additional content for said experiential data stream, or commercial content.

23. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 20, wherein said replacement/additional content is related to a targeted portion of said experiential data stream.

24. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 23, wherein said replacement/additional content is a parody content related to said experiential data stream, is additional content available but omitted from said experiential data stream, or is content having a different parental rating than the corresponding content in said targeted portion.

25. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, wherein providing the content further comprises shipping a tangible computer-usable data carrier having said content embodied within to satisfy said request.

26. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, wherein providing the content further comprises sending said content over said network to satisfy said request.

27. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the product further comprises billing responsive to said transaction information.

28. The computer-usable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising capturing demographic information related to said request wherein said demographic information is used to select the content.