Simultaneous recording of a live event and third party information

• US 9,756,295 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2007
• Issued: 09/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Patel, Paritosh
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollack, Melvin H
• Application Number:
  US11/967,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20090167860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,538 Days
• Field of Search: 348157
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to live event recording and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for recording a live event. In this regard, in one embodiment of the invention, a live event recording method can be provided. The live event recording method can include wirelessly acquiring third party information regarding a live performance from a third party information source over a computer communications network, and simultaneously recording both the live performance and also the third party information onto a single recordable medium.

Claims

1. A live event recording method comprising:

initiating recording of a live sporting event at a stadium by a handheld video recorder positioned in the stadium;

responsive to the recording by the handheld video recorder of the live sporting event, scanning available broadcast networks for an Internet feed broadcasting digital information specific to the live sporting event and selecting a specific Internet feed broadcasting digital information specific to the live sporting event;

wirelessly acquiring from the selected specific Internet feed through a wireless computer communications network interface in the handheld video recorder, third party information regarding the live sporting event from selected network; and

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simultaneously recording both the live sporting event in the handheld video recorder, and also the third party information received from the selected specific Internet feed onto a single recordable medium in the handheld video recorder;

the handheld video recorder periodically polling the selected specific Internet feed to determine whether or not the selected specific Internet feed has provided updated information from the third party information source and, on condition that it is determined that the selected specific Internet feed has provided updated information from the third party information source, retrieving the updated information from the selected specific Internet feed and simultaneously recording both the live sporting event and also the updated information onto the single recordable medium of the handheld video recorder.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein third party information comprises event overview information selected from the group consisting of a name of the live performance, a name of a team participating in the live performance, a location of the live performance, and the roster of a team participating in the live performance.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein third party information comprises updated third party information selected from the group consisting of minute-by-minute score information for the live performance, scoring players in the live performance, and penalized players in the live performance.

4. A live event recording data processing system comprising:

a single recordable medium disposed in

a handheld video recorder comprising a network interface configured to communicate over a computer communications network; and

synchronizing recorder logic executing in the handheld video recorder, the synchronizing recorder logic comprising program code enabled to initiate recording of a live sporting event at a stadium by the handheld video recorder positioned in the stadium, respond to the recording by the handheld video recorder of the live sporting event by scanning available broadcast networks for an Internet feed broadcasting digital information specific to the live sporting event and selecting a specific Internet feed broadcasting digital information specific to the live sporting event, wirelessly acquire from the selected specific Internet feed through the network interface in the handheld video recorder, third party information regarding the live performance from selected network, and to simultaneously record onto the single recordable medium using the handheld video recorder both the live sporting event and also the third party information related to the live sporting event and received from the selected specific Internet feed the handheld video recorder periodically polling the selected specific Internet feed to determine whether or not the selected specific Internet feed has provided updated information from the third party information source retrieving the updated information and simultaneously recording both the live sporting event and also the updated information onto the single recordable medium of the handheld video recorder.

5. A computer program product comprising a computer storage memory device storing computer usable program code for live event recording, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for initiating recording of a live sporting event at a stadium by a handheld video recorder positioned in the stadium;

computer usable program code for responding to the recording by the handheld video recorder of the live sporting event by scanning available broadcast networks for an Internet feed broadcasting digital information specific to the live sporting event and selecting a specific Internet feed broadcasting digital information specific to the live sporting event;

computer usable program code for wirelessly acquiring from the selected specific Internet feed through a wireless computer communications network interface in the handheld video recorder, third party information regarding the live sporting event from selected network; and

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computer usable program code for simultaneously recording both the live sporting event in the handheld video recorder, and also the third party information received from the selected specific Internet feed onto a single recordable medium in the handheld video recorder;

the handheld video recorder periodically polling the selected specific Internet feed to determine whether or not the selected specific Internet feed has provided updated information from the third party information source and, on condition that it is determined that the selected specific Internet feed has provided updated information from the third party information source, retrieving the updated information from the selected specific Internet feed and simultaneously recording both the live sporting event and also the updated information onto the single recordable medium of the handheld video recorder.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein third party information comprises event overview information selected from the group consisting of a name of the live performance, a name of a team participating in the live performance, a location of the live performance, and the roster of a team participating in the live performance.

7. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein third party information comprises updated third party information selected from the group consisting of minute-by-minute score information for the live performance, scoring players in the live performance, and penalized players in the live performance.