Content display systems and methods

• US 8,914,365 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2012
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Lenahan, Michael, Johnson, Amanda, Mitchell, Ben, Chung, Chahn, Young, Linda
• Primary Examiner(s): Arjomandi, Noosha
• Application Number:
  US13/566,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20130117262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/765
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2542 for selling goods, e.g. TV shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• 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 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

Systems and methods to display content are described. In some embodiments, program content is received from a content source. A method identifies product-related metadata associated with the program content where the product-related metadata includes at least one item displayed in the program content. The program content is communicated to a display device for presentation to a user in a first portion of the display device. The product-related metadata is communicated to the display device for presentation to the user in a second portion of the display device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving program content from a content source;

identifying, using one or more processors, product-related metadata associated with the program content, the product-related metadata including at least one item displayed in the program content;

communicating the program content to a display device for presentation to a buyer in a first portion of the display device;

communicating the product-related metadata to the display device for presentation to the buyer in a second portion of the display device substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first portion of the display device;

receiving a tagged item selection from the display device, the tagged item selection identifying a buyer-selected item in the product-related metadata;

communicating a tagging display portion to the display device for presentation to the buyer in a third portion of the display device, the tagging display portion displaying a listing of buyer-selected items and at least one buyer-selected product category allowing association by the buyer of the buyer-selected item with the at least one product category;

communicating to the display device for presentation to the buyer, in the tagging display portion, an aggregate number of buyer-selected items associated by the user with the at least one product category; and

in response to receipt of a tagged item selection, communicating to the display device for presentation to the buyer, variants of the identified buyer-selected item based on a pre-identified buyer profile.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating the tagged item with the received program content.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating the tagged item with the received program

content; and

associating the tagged item with the buyer.

4. The method of claim 1, the identifying of the product-related metadata including retrieving the product-related metadata from the received program content.

5. The method of claim 1, the identifying of the product-related metadata including retrieving the product-related metadata from a data source.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the at least one item included in the product-related metadata.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving commentary from the buyer or another user, the buyer or user commentary associated with the received program content.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the product-related metadata to a second device for presentation to the buyer.

9. A method comprising:

receiving program content from a content source;

identifying, using one or more processors, product-related metadata associated with the program content, the product-related metadata including at least one item displayed in the program content;

communicating the program content to a first display device for presentation to a buyer;

communicating the product-related metadata to a second display device for presentation by the second display device to the buyer substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device;

receiving a tagged item selection from the second display device, the tagged item selection identifying a buyer-selected item in the product-related metadata;

communicating a tagging display portion to the second display device for presentation to the buyer in a third portion of the second display device, the tagging display portion displaying a listing of buyer-selected items and at least one buyer-selected product category allowing association by the buyer of the buyer-selected item with the at least one product category;

communicating to the second display device for presentation to the buyer, in the tagging display portion, an aggregate number of buyer-selected items associated by the user with the at least one product category; and

in response to receipt of a tagged item selection, communicating to the display device for presentation to the buyer, variants of the identified buyer-selected item based on a pre-identified buyer profile.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the second display device is a mobile computing device.

11. The method of claim 9, the identifying of the product-related metadata including retrieving the product-related metadata from the received program content.

12. The method of claim 9, the identifying of the product-related metadata including retrieving the product-related metadata from a metadata source.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising receiving a tagged item selection from the second display device, the tagged item selection identifying a buyer-selected item in the product-related metadata.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising associating the tagged item with the received program content.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving program content from a content source;

identifying product-related metadata associated with the program content, the product-related metadata including at least one item displayed in the program content;

communicating the program content to a display device for presentation to a buyer in a first portion of the display device;

communicating the product-related metadata to the display device for presentation to the buyer in a second portion of the display device;

receiving a tagged item selection from the display device, the tagged item selection identifying a buyer-selected item in the product-related metadata;

communicating a tagging display portion to the display device for presentation to the buyer in a third portion of the display device, the tagging display portion displaying at least one buyer-selected product category allowing association by the buyer of the buyer-selected item with the at least one product category;

communicating to the display device for presentation to the buyer, in the tagging display portion, an aggregate number of buyer-selected items associated by the user with the at least one product category; and

in response to receipt of a tagged item selection, communicating to the display device for presentation to the buyer, variants of the identified buyer-selected item based on a pre-identified buyer profile.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, the machine further to perform operations comprising associating the tagged item selection with the program content.