Open API video system and method of making and using same

• US 8,122,467 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg
• Original Assignee: Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg
• Inventors: Steelberg, Ryan, Steelberg, Chad
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN BA, HOANG VU A
• Application Number:
  US11/981,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20080282302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• Field of Search: 725/32, 725/53, 386/249, 386/250, 386/278, 705/14.49
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/106 for domestic distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A video player unit, system and method, and a video hierarchy. Included are at least one memory device, a plurality of communication access points for receiving at least one program play, an open application programming interface associated with the at least one memory device, wherein a plurality of applications correspondent to the open application programming interface allow a user to manipulate metadata associated with ones of the programs plays, wherein the metadata relates to interframe interactivity with detailed aspects of the ones of the program plays, and at least one correlation engine in communication with the open application programming interface, wherein the at least one correlation engine provides for correlation among at least the interframes of the program play to ones of the interframes of other ones of the program plays.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system comprising at least one computerized memory communicatively associated with at least one processor programmed for providing interframe interaction with one or more program plays, comprising:

at least one program play comprising a plurality of frames;

at least one metatag stream at least partially indicative of interframe aspects within each of the plurality of frames;

at least one message bus in communication with the at least one metatag stream;

a plurality of filters in communication with the at least one message bus, wherein each of the plurality of filters delivers messages to and forwards messages from said at least one message bus directing interactions between said metatag stream and the interframe aspects; and

a plurality of applications, wherein each of said plurality of applications is corresponded to multiple ones of said plurality of filters, wherein each of said plurality of filters is corresponded to at least one of said plurality of applications, and wherein each of said plurality of applications generates ones of the messages and receives ones of the messages and wherein at least one of said plurality of applications is interactive for a consumer of the at least one program play.

2. The video hierarchy of claim 1, wherein ones of said plurality of filters comprise at least one selected from the group consisting of key word filters, commerce-type filters, location filters, geolocation filters, correlation filters, insertion filters, social filters, programmatic publishing filters, and automatic publishing filters.

3. The video hierarchy of claim 1, wherein at least one of said applications responds to ones of the messages generated by at least one other of the applications.

4. The video hierarchy of claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of filters responds to ones of the messages generated by at least one other of the plurality of filters.

5. The video hierarchy of claim 1, wherein said at least one program play comprises a core application.

6. The video hierarchy of claim 1, wherein the metatag stream is non-thematic with respect to the at least one program play.

7. The video hierarchy of claim 1, wherein the metatag stream is thematic only with respect to the interframe aspects of the one or more program play.