Techniques for the association, customization and automation of content from multiple sources on a single display

• US 8,458,147 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2008
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Payne, Michael J., Johnson, Brian David, Booth, Cory J.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHONG H
• Application Number:
  US12/229,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20100049719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,749 Days
• Field of Search: 707/999.1, 707/802, 707/694, 707/805, 715/209, 715/714, 715/744, 715/719
• US Class Current: 707/694
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• 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 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

Techniques for the association, customization and automation of content from multiple sources on a single display device are described. A method includes storing an association rule as defined by a user, where the association rule defines a main content source and an associated content source. When the user accesses the main content source, automatically receiving content from the main content source and content from the associated content source as defined by the association rule. Then, causing the display of the associated content overlayed on the main content via a user interface on a display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a connected device, comprising a processor coupled to a memory, connected to multiple content sources,

when the user accesses one content source, the connected device is to automatically receive content from the one content source and associated content from at least one associated content source,

wherein the connected device is to cause the display of the associated content overlaid on the one main content via a user interface on a display device, and

the connected device is adapted to cause the display of the associated content to be enlarged and an audio level of said associated content to be increased based on occurrence of a commercial provided by the main content source.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the display device is one of a television, mobile Internet device (MID), cell phone, personal computer (PC) and a laptop computer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises an associated content section to display the associated content and a main content section to display the one content.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the associated content section is to be divided into a number of windows equal to a number of the at least one associated content source.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the connected device is to store a customization rule for an association rule defined by a user, wherein the association rule defines the one content source and at least one associated content source, and wherein the customization rule is automatically executed with the association rule.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the customization rule comprises at least one of a display customization and a trigger customization.

7. A computer implemented method, comprising:

when the user accesses the main content source, automatically receiving main content from the main content source and associated content from the at least one associated content source;

causing the display of the associated content overlaid on the main content via a user interface on a display device; and

enlarging the display of the associated content and increasing an audio level of said associated content based on the occurrence of a commercial provided by the main content source.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the display device is one of a television, mobile Internet device (MID), cell phone, personal computer (PC) and a laptop computer.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the user interface comprises an associated content section to display the associated content and a main content section to display the main content.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the associated content section comprises a number of windows equal to a number of the at least one associated content source.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

storing a customization rule for an association rule defined by a user, wherein the association rule defines the one content source and at least one associated content source; and

automatically executing the customization rule with the association rule.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the customization rule comprises at least one of a display customization and a trigger customization.

13. A tangible machine-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

when the user accesses the main content source, automatically receiving main content from the main content source and associated content from the at least one associated content source;

causing the display of the associated content to be overlaid on the main content via a user interface on a display device; and

enlarging the display of the associated content and increasing an audio level of said associated content based on the occurrence of a commercial provided by the main content source.

14. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the display device is a television, mobile Internet device (MID), cell phone, personal computer (PC) and a laptop computer.

15. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the user interface comprises an associated content section to display the associated content and a main content section to display the main content.

16. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the associated content section comprises a number of windows equal to a number of the at least one associated content source.

17. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising:

storing a customization rule for an association rule defined by a user, wherein the association rule defines the one content source and at least one associated content source; and

automatically executing the customization rule with the association rule, wherein the customization rule comprises at least one of a display customization and a trigger customization.