Systems and methods to modify playout or playback

• US 8,107,786 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Issued: 01/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OpenTV, Inc. (Kudelski SA)
• Original Assignee: Open TV, Inc. (Naspers Limited)
• Inventors: Sardera, Esteban
• Primary Examiner(s): Shibru, Helen
• Application Number:
  US11/469,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20080124052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,979 Days
• Field of Search: 386/205, 386/203, 386/343, 386/344, 386/350, 386/286
• US Class Current: 386/205
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/19 by using information detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2387 Stream processing in response to a playback request from an end-user, e.g. for trick-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence

Abstract

Systems and methods to modify playout or playback include a first and second approach to respond to a trick mode request (e.g., fast forward, rewind). First, a trick mode request may be responded to by associating primary content to secondary content and playing out the secondary content on a receiving device, the secondary content not being derived from the primary content. Second, a trick mode request may be responded to by associating primary content to secondary content and playing out the secondary content on a receiving device, the secondary content being derived from the primary content but played at a normal speed for the secondary content.

Claims

1. A system including:

a request module to receive a request for primary content; and

a communication module to

communicate primary content to a receiving device, the receiving device to render the primary content to an output device at a normal speed of the primary content,

associate the primary content to secondary information,

communicate the secondary information to the receiving device, the receiving device to utilize the secondary information to render secondary non-derivative content to the output device instead of the primary content, the secondary non-derivative content not being derived from the primary content, the receiving device to render the secondary non-derivative content responsive to receipt of a request to render the primary content at the receiving device at an accelerated speed of the primary content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication module communicates the primary content to the receiving device to store the primary content to a local storage device, the receiving device to retrieve the primary content from the local storage device before the receiving device is to render the primary content to the output device at the normal speed of the primary content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication module is to associate the primary content to a secondary application that is utilized by the communication module to generate the secondary content.

4. A method including:

receiving a request for primary content;

communicating primary content to a receiving device, the receiving device to render the primary content to an output device at a normal speed of the primary content;

associating the primary content to secondary information; and

communicating the secondary information to the receiving device, the receiving device to utilize the secondary information to render secondary non-derivative content to the output device instead of the primary content, the secondary non-derivative content not being derived from the primary content, the receiving device to render the secondary non-derivative content responsive to receipt of a request to render the primary content at the receiving device at an accelerated speed of the primary content.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the communicating primary content to the receiving device includes the receiving device to store the primary content to a local storage device and to retrieve the primary content from the local storage device before the receiving device is to render the primary content to an output device at the normal speed of the primary content.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the request includes a trick mode request and wherein the trick mode request includes any one from a group of trick mode requests including a fast forward request and a rewind request.

7. A tangible machine readable medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

receive a request for primary content;

communicate primary content to a receiving device, the receiving device to render the primary content to an output device at a normal speed of the primary content;

associate the primary content to secondary information; and

communicate the secondary information to the receiving device, the receiving device to utilize the secondary information to render secondary non-derivative content to the output device instead of the primary content, the secondary non-derivative content not being derived from the primary content, the receiving device to render the secondary non-derivative content responsive to receipt of a request to render the primary content at the receiving device at an accelerated speed of the primary content.