Information provision

• US 8,763,042 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2012
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ishtiaq, Faisal, Gandhi, Bhavan, Metcalf, Crysta J.
• Primary Examiner(s): MENGESHA, MULUGETA A
• Application Number:
  US13/645,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20140098293A1
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 725 40- 43, 725/131, 725/133, 725/139, 725/141, 725/151, 725/153
• US Class Current: 725/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43079 of additional data with content streams on multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• 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 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content

Abstract

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing information to a first client device (e.g., a tablet computer) for presentation on that device. The information may be related to multimedia content (e.g., a television program) that may be presented using a second client device (e.g., a television). Firstly, an activity level for a portion of the multimedia content is determined. Using the activity level, an amount of the information is assigned to that portion of the multimedia content. The amount of the information assigned is dependent on that determined activity level. The assigned information is then provided for use by (e.g., for display on) the first client device.

Claims

1. A method of providing additional information to a first client device for presentation using the first client device, the additional information being related to multimedia content, the multimedia content being provided to a second client device for presentation using the second client device, the method comprising:

acquiring, by one or more processors, of a service module, the multimedia content from a content provider;

acquiring, by the one or more processors, of the service module, the additional information;

determining, by the one or more processors of the service module, using the acquired multimedia content, an activity level, for at least a portion of the multimedia content, the activity level being indicative of a level of action that occurs within the at least a portion of the multimedia content;

assigning, by the one or more processors, of the service module, using the determined activity level and the acquired additional information, some or all of the additional information to the at least a portion of the multimedia content for which the activity level has been determined, the amount of the additional information assigned to the at least a portion of the multimedia content being dependent upon the activity level;

wherein if the activity level indicates that a greater amount of action occurs within the portion of the multimedia content than within other portions of the multimedia content, then a lesser amount of additional information is assigned to the portion of the multimedia content; and

wherein if the activity level indicates that a lesser amount of action occurs within the portion of the multimedia content than within other portions of the multimedia content, then a greater amount of additional information is assigned to the portion of the multimedia content; and

providing, by the one or more processors, of the service module, the assigned additional information to the first client device.