Display window control system and method

• US 8,428,257 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2010
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Cappio, Adam, Rothotlz, Ben, Ping, Hai Feng
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad, Edan
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOLDER, BRADLEY W
• Application Number:
  US12/722,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20100217993A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,139 Days
• Field of Search: 380/201, 380/200
• US Class Current: 380/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]

Abstract

An embodiment of a method for rendering an item of media content includes obtaining a media presentation having a media-content portion and a display-window-configuration component. The display-window-configuration component is recovered from the media presentation and causes a defined display window to be presented contemporaneously with rendering the media content of the media-content portion. And an embodiment of a method for rendering an item of media content having an action-indicator associated with an action includes analyzing the media content to detect the action-indicator and executing the associated action. For example, the action-indicator may be a watermark, which may be visible while an image portion of the media content is displayed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

recovering, using a processor, from a media presentation;

a media-content portion; and

a display-window-configuration component, wherein the media-content portion and display-window-configuration component are cryptographically bound with a cryptographic binding, wherein at least one of the cryptographically bound media-content portion and/or display-window-configuration component is encrypted;

unbinding and/or verifying the cryptographic binding using the processor, wherein unbinding and/or verifying the cryptographic binding comprises decrypting the media-content portion and/or display-window-configuration component;

responsive to the display-window-configuration component, generating a display window, wherein generating the display window comprises modifying a default display window configuration and presenting the modified display window on a display, wherein modifying the default display window comprises imparting a modified appearance to at least a portion of the display window other than a rendering field; and

rendering the media content contemporaneous with presenting the display window, wherein the media content comprises visual content, wherein rendering the media content comprises rendering the media content within a rendering field of the display window, and wherein modifying the default display window comprises modifying a layout of the rendering field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein imparting a modified appearance to at least a portion of the display window other than a rendering field comprises modifying a skin of the display window.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising rendering advertisement content within another portion of the display window.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising obtaining the advertising content from a remote source responsive to the display-window-configuration component.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the cryptographic binding comprises a hash computed across some or all of the media-content portion and the display-window-configuration component and wherein unbinding and/or verifying the cryptographic binding further comprises verifying a local computation of the hash against a reference hash.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending data to a remote device in response to the display-window-configuration component.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a media-content-presentation denial; and

responsive to the media-content-presentation denial, preventing rendering of the media content.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a display-window-modification query to a remote location.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining display-window-modification data wherein modifying the default display window is based on the obtained display-window-modification data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the display-window-modification data comprises instructions to modify the default display window.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the display-window-modification data comprises media and wherein the default display window is modified to present the media.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the display-window-modification data comprises a uniform resource locator(URL) wherein the default display window is modified to include the URL and/or a rendered content portion which may be clicked on or otherwise activated by a user to obtain data from a data source associated with the URL.

13. A computer system for presenting a media presentation comprising:

a display, and

a processor operable to;

recover from a media presentation;

a media content portion; and

a display-window-configuration component, wherein the media-content portion and display-window-configuration component are cryptographically bound, and wherein the cryptographically bound media-content portion and display-window-configuration component are encrypted in whole or in part and recovering the media-content portion and the display-window-configuration component comprises decrypting the media-content portion and display-window-configuration component; and

responsive to the display-window-configuration component, generate a display window on the display and render the media content on the display, wherein generating the display window comprises modifying a default display window configuration by imparting a modified appearance to at least a portion of the display window other than a rendering field and presenting the modified display window, wherein the media content comprises visual content rendered within a rendering field of the display window, and wherein modifying the default display window comprises modifying a layout of the rendering field.

14. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further operable to initiate sending a display-window-modification query, responsive to the display-window-configuration component, to a remote location.

15. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the default display window is modified based on obtained display-window modification data.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the display-window-modification data comprises instructions to modify the default display window.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the display-window-modification data comprises media and wherein the default display window is modified to present the media.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the display-window modification data comprises a uniform resource locator(URL) and wherein the default display window is modified to include the URL.

19. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the display-window configuration component is configured to be auto-run by the processor after being recovered.

20. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the display-window configuration component initiates obtaining display window updates and modifying the default display window in response to obtained display window updates.

21. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the display-window configuration component is configured to initiate preventing rendering of the media content if a media presentation denial is obtained.

22. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the media content comprises audio media content.

23. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further operable to modify rendering of the media content responsive to the display-window configuration component.

24. The computer system of claim 23, wherein modification of the rendering of the media content comprises adding additional video content to one of the beginning, middle, or end of a video.

25. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the cryptographically bound media-content portion and display-window-configuration component have had a reference hash computed across them and wherein recovering the media-content portion and the display-window-configuration component further comprises computing a hash of the display-window-configuration component and media-content portion and comparing the computed hash to the reference hash.