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Method and system for linking content on a connected television screen with a browser

  • US 9,043,821 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2012
  • Issued: 05/26/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • in an automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device that communicates with an ACR system to handle ACR, which is paired with or associated with a paired device utilizing a companion application running on said paired device, wherein said paired device comprises a browser;

    enabling, utilizing the ACR system, said browser to display, within a section of a browser window, interactive content related to certain content being presented by said ACR-enabled connected TV device; and

    enabling, utilizing said ACR system, a viewer to interact with said interactive content;

    wherein;

    said ACR system comprise an abstraction layer that enables assignment of same interactive event identifiers to different sets of video fingerprints generated from the same video content by different video fingerprint technologies from multiple vendors based on timing of said assignment of said interactive event identifiers to said different sets of video fingerprints generated from said same video content by a common reference clock utilized by said ACR system;

    said ACR-enabled connected TV device providing fingerprints to a fingerprint matching system in said ACR system for matching by said fingerprint matching system;

    said ACR-enabled connected TV device receiving information and/or content from the ACR system based on interactive events associated with said interactive event identifiers indicated by the matching by the fingerprint matching system; and

    said display of said interactive content is based on said interactive event identifiers.

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