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• US 9,280,905 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Campiranon, Chatree, Forman, Joshua John, Golden, Aaron Eliezer, Haney, Aaron, Hoyer, Andrew C., Kyle, Scott William, Szuts, Marie Dalby
• Primary Examiner(s): Mei, Xu
• Application Number:
  US13/323,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20130150990A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,548 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for presenting an interactive media presentation, the method including presenting media section descriptions with a selectable time code and a description; presenting a media controller and including a displayed time line with one or more selectable time points; upon playing a media item, advancing a time indicator along the time line in accordance with a playback position of the media item and featuring the media section description corresponding to the playback position in the media item.

Claims

1. A method for presenting an interactive media presentation, the method comprising:

presenting a plurality of media section descriptions, each media section description comprising a selectable time code and a description;

presenting a media controller selectable between a playback state and a non-playback state and including a displayed time line with one or more selectable time points;

responsive to a user initiating the playback state, (i) playing a media item, (ii) advancing a time indicator along the time line in accordance with a playback position of the media item, and (iii) featuring a first media section description of the plurality of media section descriptions, the first media section description corresponding to the playback position in the media item; and

responsive to a user navigation input concerning a second media section description of the plurality of media section descriptions, (i) executing a call to a callback function, (ii) denying a request for a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the callback function and featuring the second media section description indicated by said user navigation input, (iii) playing a portion of the media item corresponding to the second media section description indicated by said user navigation input, and (iv) adjusting the time indicator along the timeline to a time corresponding to a time code indicated by the callback function.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the media section descriptions include a musical notation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the media section descriptions include lyrics.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein featuring the first media section description includes positioning the media section description at a particular on-screen location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein featuring the first media section description includes featuring a first selectable time code.

6. A system for presenting an interactive media presentation, the system comprising:

an input module configured for receiving user navigation inputs; and

an output module configured for;

presenting a plurality of media section descriptions, each media section description comprising a selectable time code and a description;

presenting a media controller selectable between a playback state and a non-playback state and including a displayed time line with one or more selectable time points;

responsive to a user initiating the playback state, (i) playing a media item, (ii) advancing a time indicator along the time line in accordance with a playback position of the media item, and (iii) featuring a first media section description corresponding to the playback position in the media item;

responsive to a user navigation input concerning a second media section description of the plurality of media section descriptions, (i) executing a call to a callback function, (ii) denying a request for a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the callback function and featuring the second media section description indicated by said user navigation input, (iii) playing a portion of the media item corresponding to the second media section description indicated by said user navigation input, and (iv) adjusting the time indicator along the timeline to a time corresponding to a time code indicated by the callback function.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the media section descriptions include a musical notation.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the media section descriptions include lyrics.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein highlighting the first media section description includes positioning the media section description at a particular on-screen location.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein featuring the media section description includes featuring a first selectable time code.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores instructions which when performed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

presenting a plurality of media section descriptions, each media section description comprising a selectable time code and a description;

presenting a media controller selectable between a playback state and a non-playback state and including a displayed time line with one or more selectable time points;

responsive to a user initiating the playback state, (i) playing a media item, (ii) advancing a time indicator along the time line in accordance with a playback position of the media item, and (iii) featuring a first media section description corresponding to the playback position in the media item; and

responsive to a user navigation input concerning a second media section description of the plurality of media section descriptions, (i) executing a call to a callback function, (ii) denying a request for a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the callback function and featuring the second media section description indicated by said user navigation input, (iii) playing a portion of the media item corresponding to the second media section description indicated by said user navigation input, and (iv) adjusting the time indicator along the timeline to a time corresponding to a time code indicated by the callback function.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the media section descriptions include a musical notation.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the media section descriptions include lyrics.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions for featuring the media section description include instructions which when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform the operations of:

positioning the first media section description at a particular on-screen location.