Generating teasers for live performances

• US 8,595,763 B1
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: STATS LLC (Stats Holdings LLC)
• Original Assignee: Thuuz, Inc.
• Inventors: Levin, Alan, Packard, Warren Joseph, Barcklay, Robert John, Schmier, Michael Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): MENGESHA, MULUGETA A
• Application Number:
  US13/601,933
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• Field of Search: 725 32- 34, 725/40, 725/108
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/025 Systems for the transmission of digital non-picture data, e.g. of text during the active part of a television frame transmission of digital non-picture data during the vertical blanking interval only H04N7/088
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/10 Adaptations for transmission by electrical cable H04N7/12 takes precedence

Abstract

A live performance is monitored by analyzing an input data stream comprising real-time updates related to the live performance. Different sets of excitement levels, excitement curves, alerts and teasers are generated based on the analysis and reported to a plurality of subscribers using any of a variety of mobile communication and/or computing devices.

Claims

1. A method for generating teasers for a live performance, comprising:

monitoring a live performance;

generating different sets of teasers for the live performance, the different sets of teasers includes different teasers for different categories of subscribers, wherein generating the different sets of teasers comprises;

receiving different sets of alerts related to the live performance, the different sets of alerts correspond to one or more excitement levels related to the live performance that are at or above the one or more excitement thresholds, wherein the different sets of alerts relate to different subscriber categories,

accessing one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category,

for the one or more alerts, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules, for the different subscriber categories,

identifying a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories as having a highest priority, for the one or more alerts,

for at least the chosen teaser category, accessing a set of rules for identifying one or more pre-stored teasers related to the chosen teaser category, for the different subscriber categories, and

of the one or more pre-stored teasers identifying a teaser that is of a higher priority, for the different subscriber categories; and

reporting the different sets of teasers to the subscribers, the monitoring, generating and reporting are performed by one or more processors.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the teasers include at least sentence fragments about the one or more alerts related to the live performance.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying a teaser of a higher priority comprises assigning weights to each of the one or more pre-stored teasers, wherein the weights are determined based on a degree by which each of the one or more pre-stored teasers satisfy the rules of the chosen teaser category.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a default teaser based on the excitement alert of the live performance when no pre-stored teasers are identified and reporting the default teaser to the plurality of subscribers.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein reporting the different sets of teasers comprises reporting a teaser for a home team fan, a visiting team fan and a neutral fan during the live performance.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein reporting the different sets of teasers comprises displaying the different sets of teasers and the different sets of alerts related to the live performance to a plurality of subscribers on one or more display devices.

7. A method for generating teasers for a live performance, comprising:

receiving different sets of alerts related to the live performance, wherein the different sets of alerts correspond to one or more excitement levels related to the live performance that are at or above one or more excitement thresholds, the different sets of alerts correspond to different subscriber categories;

accessing one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category;

for the one or more alerts, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules, for the different subscriber categories;

identifying a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories as having a highest priority, for the one or more alerts;

for at least the chosen teaser category, accessing a set of rules for identifying one or more pre-stored teasers related to the chosen teaser category, for the different subscriber categories;

of the one or more pre-stored teasers identifying a teaser that is of a higher priority, for the different subscriber categories; and

reporting the identified teaser to a plurality of subscribers;

the receiving different sets of alerts, accessing one or more sets of rules, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories, identifying the chosen teaser category, accessing the set of rules for identifying, identifying the teaser and reporting are performed by one or more processors.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the teasers include at least sentence fragments about the one or more alerts related to the live performance.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein identifying a teaser of a higher priority comprises assigning weights to each of the one or more pre-stored teasers, wherein the weights are determined based on a degree by which each of the one or more pre-stored teasers satisfy the rules of the chosen teaser category.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein reporting the different sets of teasers comprises displaying the different sets of teasers and the different sets of alerts related to the live performance to a plurality of subscribers on one or more display devices.

11. One or more processor readable storage devices having processor readable code embodied on the processor readable storage devices, the processor readable code for programming one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

monitoring a live performance, the monitoring comprising receiving different sets of alerts related to the live performance;

accessing one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category;

automatically generating different sets of teasers for the live performance based on the sets of rules, the different sets of teasers relate to different subscriber categories, wherein generating the different sets of teasers further comprises;

for the one or more alerts, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules, for the different subscriber categories,

identifying a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories as having a highest priority, for the one or more alerts,

for at least the chosen teaser category, accessing a set of rules for identifying one or more pre-stored teasers related to the chosen teaser category, for the different subscriber categories, and

of the one or more pre-stored teasers identifying a teaser that is of a higher priority, for the different subscriber categories; and

reporting the different sets of teasers to a plurality of subscribers.

12. A system for generating excitement levels for a plurality of live performances comprising:

one or more storage devices storing code;

a communication interface; and

one or more processors in communication with the one or more storage devices and the communication interface, the one or more processors configured to be in communication with a plurality of client devices via the communication interface based on the code, wherein the code configures the one or more processors to monitor a live performance, generate different sets of teasers for the live performance and report the different sets of teasers to a plurality of subscribers, the different sets of teasers relate to different subscriber categories, the one or more processors receive different sets of alerts related to the live performance and access one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category, the one or more processors identify one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rule, the one or more processors identify a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories as having a highest priority, the one or more processors access a set of rules to identify one or more pre-stored teasers related to the chosen teaser category, the one or more processors identify a teaser that is of a higher priority and report the teaser to the plurality of subscribers.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the one or more processors report a teaser a home team fan, a visiting team fan and a neutral team fan related to the live performance, to the plurality of subscribers on one or more display devices.