Second screen dilemma function

• US 9,743,145 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2017
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• 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:
  US15/405,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20170134808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 221 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. A method of displaying information on a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading, over a communications network, a moral dilemma question that is related to a moral dilemma depicted within a video;

displaying the moral dilemma question, a first moral principle descriptor, and a second moral principle descriptor, the first moral principle descriptor and the second moral principle descriptor being standardized for utilization with a plurality of videos;

providing an user an opportunity to select either the first moral principle descriptor or the second moral principle descriptor in response to the moral dilemma question; and

displaying statistics relating to how other users have selected either the first moral principle descriptor or the second moral principle descriptor in response to the moral dilemma question.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the moral dilemma question is a generalized moral dilemma question that is subject matter related to the moral dilemma depicted within the video.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the moral dilemma question relates to a specific moral dilemma situation, depicted within the video, in which two moral principles that are in conflict are indentified by the standardized first moral principle descriptor and the second moral principle descriptor.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying is further responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference for a displaying of moral dilemma questions.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of establishing a synchronization to a playing of the video;

and wherein the establishing the synchronization comprises obtaining an identification of a play position in the video; and

wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is responsive to the established synchronization.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first moral principle descriptor and the second moral principle descriptor are selected from a set of standardized moral principles descriptors.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is further responsive to an identification of a commercial break within a playing of the video.

8. A method of displaying information on a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading, over a communications network, a moral dilemma question that is related to a moral dilemma depicted within a video;

displaying the moral dilemma question, a first moral principle descriptor, and a second moral principle descriptor, the first moral principle descriptor and the second moral principle descriptor being standardized for utilization with a plurality of videos; and

providing a user an opportunity to select either the first moral principle descriptor or the second moral principle descriptor in response to the moral dilemma question.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the moral dilemma question is a generalized moral dilemma question that is subject matter related to the moral dilemma depicted within the video.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first moral principle descriptor and the second moral principle descriptor are selected from a set of standardized moral principles descriptors.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is further responsive to a user'"'"'s preestablished preference for a displaying of moral dilemma questions.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is further responsive to an identification of a commercial break within a playing of the video.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of establishing a synchronization to a playing of the video;

and wherein the establishing the synchronization comprises obtaining an identification of a play position in the video; and

wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is responsive to the established synchronization.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein a playing of the video is on a primary screen device.

15. A method of displaying information on a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading, over a communications network, a moral dilemma question that is related to a moral dilemma depicted within a video;

displaying the moral dilemma question;

enabling an user to select, responsive to the moral dilemma question and from a plurality of standardized moral principle descriptors, a first moral principle descriptor and a second moral principle descriptor, the first moral principle descriptor and the second moral principle descriptor being standardized for utilization with a plurality of videos; and

indicating, following the user selection, which two moral principle descriptors, from the plurality of standardized moral principle descriptors, are most applicable to the moral dilemma.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of standardized moral principle descriptors are a subset selected from a wider set of standardized moral principles descriptors.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the moral dilemma question is a generalized moral dilemma question that is subject matter related to the moral dilemma depicted within the video.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising the step of establishing a synchronization to a playing of the video;

and wherein the establishing the synchronization to the playing of the video comprises obtaining an identification of a play position in the video; and

wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is responsive to the established synchronization.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein a playing of the video is on a primary screen device.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the displaying of the moral dilemma question is further responsive to an identification of a commercial break within a playing of the video.