Accessing content via a matrix code

• US 9,596,500 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2011
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dish Technologies LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Echostar Technologies LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Inventors: Gomez, Mark H., Kennedy, John T., Martch, Henry Gregg
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peng, Fred
• Application Number:
  US13/016,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20120159563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,237 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224

Abstract

A system for accessing content corresponding to a matrix barcode, such as a video and/or audio content. The system may include a mobile computing device in communication with a content receiver. The mobile computing device may be configured to capture the matrix barcode, for example, via using an optical component and/or barcode scanner to record and/or scan the matrix barcode. The mobile computing device may also include a network interface component configured to transmit the matrix barcode to the content receiver. The content receiver may then receive the matrix barcode from the mobile computing device. The content receiver may include a processor to determine and/or access the content corresponding to the matrix barcode. The content receiver may then transmit the content to a display device.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising:

instructions, stored in at least one non-transitory storage media, which when executed by at least one processing unit, cause the processing unit to;

receive content information represented by a matrix barcode extracted by a matrix barcode reader device wherein the content information includes title information of audiovisual content;

query a content source with the title information of the audiovisual content extracted from the matrix barcode to determine whether the content is available at that time;

receive information from the content source that the content is currently unavailable but will be available at a particular future date;

automatically, without additional user input after receiving the information from the content source that the content is currently unavailable but will be available at a particular future date, access the content on the future date;

when the content is discovered on the content source, receive the content and transmit it to a computing device;

when the content corresponding to the content information is discovered on the content source, send the notification to the matrix barcode reader device including a prompt requesting whether to record or display the content; and

in response to receiving a reply not to record or display the content, automatically sending a second prompt requesting whether to set a reminder to record, display, or access the content at a future time, wherein the instructions are all stored in non-transitory storage media of a single device.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the content corresponding to the content information is an audiovisual content.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising causing the processor to record the content after the content is discovered on the content source.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising causing the processor to extract the content information from the matrix barcode, prior to the operation to receive content information represented by the matrix barcode.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the receiving operation is performed via a telecommunication network.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the content source is a television broadcast transmission.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein content information is received from the matrix barcode reader device over a network comprising a cellular network or wide area network.