Presence based technology

• US 8,356,317 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Issued: 01/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Errico, James H., Sezan, M. Ibrahim, Borden, George R., Feather, Gary A., Grover, Mick G.
• Primary Examiner(s): SCHNURR, JOHN R
• Application Number:
  US11/152,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20060282851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,773 Days
• Field of Search: 725/24, 725/46, 725/109, 725/110, 725/120, 725/32, 725/37, 725/38, 725/39, 725/40, 725/44, 725/105, 725/131
• US Class Current: 725/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/466 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies services using the results of monitoring in broadcast systems H04H60/61
• 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 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A collaborative information system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

(a) a first audiovisual device capable of receiving audiovisual content;

(b) said first audiovisual device capable of receiving data descriptive of said audiovisual content;

(c) a second audiovisual device capable of receiving audiovisual content;

(d) said second audiovisual device capable of receiving data descriptive of said audiovisual content;

(e) a network interconnecting said first audiovisual device and said second audiovisual device to a third audiovisual device;

(f) said first and second audiovisual devices providing respective recommendations to said third audiovisual device of audiovisual content to be broadcast during a respectively associated first time interval, each recommended said audiovisual content having a start time during its associated said first time interval subsequent to a time when said respective recommendation is provided to said third audiovisual device, where said respective recommendations are associated with an urgency attribute, said urgency attribute automatically presented to a user of said third audiovisual device with its respectively associated recommendation without manual prompting, based on the temporal availability of the recommended audiovisual content, where said urgency attribute indicates the absence of each of the following characteristics;

(i) at least one scheduled showing of the respectively recommended said audiovisual program at a second time interval subsequent to said associated first time interval; and

(ii) the availability of said program on demand.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include a program title of said audiovisual content.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include an episode of said audiovisual content.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include a creation time of said audiovisual content.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include a delivery time of said audiovisual content.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include information regarding the delivery channel.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include a summary description of said audiovisual content.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein said recommendations are TV-Anytime compliant.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein said respective recommendations include a weighting.