Second screen trivia function

• US 9,615,142 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2014
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CustomPlay, LLC
• Original Assignee: CustomPlay, LLC
• Inventors: Abecassis, Max, Donahue, Ryan M.
• Primary Examiner(s): JONES, HEATHER RAE
• Application Number:
  US14/531,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20150110458A1
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/22 Means responsive to presence or absence of recorded information signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• 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 21/43079 of additional data with content streams on multiple devices
• 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 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• 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 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• 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 21/4781 Games
• 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 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• 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 21/8352 : involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 : involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 : involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 : involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 : Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/24 : Systems for the transmission of television signals using pulse code modulation H04N21/00 takes precedence

Abstract

Systems for, and methods of, displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device (e.g., obtaining from the primary screen device an identification of a current play position of the video, or obtaining information to generate an acoustic fingerprint of the video); determining a current play position of the video playing on the primary screen device based upon the current play position data (e.g., identification of the current play position or the acoustic fingerprint); downloading information (e.g., video map, subtitles, moral principles, objectionable content, memorable content, performers, geographical maps, shopping, plot point, item, ratings, and trivia information) over a computer communications network into the memory of the second screen device; and displaying information on the second screen device synchronized with the contemporaneously played video on the primary screen device.

Claims

1. An information display method comprising:

downloading, over a communications network, a trivia question, a set of multiple choice answers, an identification of a correct answer, and a write-up relating to the trivia question;

receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of the video on a primary screen device;

establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video;

identifying a commercial break during the playing of the video;

displaying, on a second screen device and during the identified commercial break, the trivia question and the set of multiple choice answers, the displaying being responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia question being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break; and

displaying, responsive to receiving a user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers, the identification of the correct answer and the write-up relating to the trivia question.

2. An information display method comprising:

downloading, over a communications network, a trivia question, a set of multiple choice answers, and an identification of a correct answer;

receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of a video on a primary screen device;

establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video;

identifying a commercial break during the playing of the video;

displaying, on a second screen device and during the identified commercial break, the trivia question and the set of multiple choice answers, the displaying being responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia question being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break; and

displaying, responsive to receiving a user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers, the identification of the correct answer.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the receiving synchronizing information comprises receiving, from the primary screen device, an identification of a play position in the video playing on the primary screen device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the receiving synchronizing information comprises receiving audio information principally from the playing of the video on the primary screen device;

and wherein the establishing the synchronization to the playing of the video comprises generating an acoustic fingerprint responsive to the received audio information, and comparing the acoustic fingerprint to a downloaded acoustic database to obtain an identification of a play position in the video playing on the primary screen.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to a remote source of additional information relating to the trivia question, and wherein the displaying of the identification of the correct answer further comprises displaying the additional information.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers is responsive to a time limit.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to a remote source of additional information relating to the trivia question, and wherein the displaying of the identification of the correct answer further comprises displaying an indication of the availability of additional information.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the trivia question, that is unrelated to the commercial currently depicted during the commercial break, is related to content recently depicted in the playing of the video.

9. An information display method comprising:

receiving, on a second screen device, a user'"'"'s request for a display of a trivia question;

downloading, over a communications network, a trivia question, a set of multiple choice answers, and an identification of a correct answer;

displaying, on a second screen device, during a commercial break in a playing of a video on a primary screen device, the trivia question and the set of multiple choice answers, the displaying being responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia question being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break; and

displaying, responsive to receiving a user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers, the identification of the correct answer.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers is responsive to a time limit.

11. An information display method comprising:

downloading, over a communications network, trivia information;

identifying a commercial break during a playing of a video on a primary screen device; and

displaying, on a second screen device and during the identified commercial break, the trivia information, the displaying being responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia information being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to a remote source of additional information relating to the trivia information, and wherein the display of trivia information further comprises displaying an indication of the availability of additional information.

13. A second screen device comprising:

a communication interface for downloading, over a communications network and to a memory of the second screen device, a trivia question, a set of multiple choice answers, and an identification of a correct answer;

a processor for identifying a commercial break during a playing of a video on a primary screen device, for activating, on a display screen, a display, during the identified commercial break, of the trivia question and the set of multiple choice answers, the display being responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia question being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break, and for activating, responsive to receiving a user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers, a display of the identification of the correct answer.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a write-up relating to the trivia question;

and wherein the display of the identification of the correct answer further comprises a display of the write-up.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the trivia question, that is unrelated to the commercial currently depicted during the commercial break, is related to content recently depicted in the playing of the video.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to a remote source of additional information relating to the trivia question, and wherein the display of the identification of the correct answer further comprises displaying the additional information.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the user'"'"'s selection from the set of multiple choice answers is responsive to a time limit.

18. An information provider system comprising:

a memory for storing data comprising a trivia question, a set of multiple choice answers;

a communications interface for downloading the data over a communications network to a second screen device;

a processor for causing a downloading of the data to a second screen device, whereby the second screen device is able to identify a commercial break during a playing of a video on a primary screen device, and is able to display, during the identified commercial break, the trivia question and the set of multiple choice answers, the display being responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia question being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the data further comprises a linkage to a remote source of additional information relating to the trivia question, and wherein the display, during the identified commercial break, further comprises displaying the additional information.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the trivia question, that is unrelated to the commercial currently depicted during the commercial break, is related to content recently depicted in the playing of the video.