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Context relevant interactive television

  • US 9,866,915 B2
  • Filed: 05/18/2012
  • Issued: 01/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for providing contextually relevant information for multimedia content received at a rendering device, comprising:

  • detecting a selection of the multimedia content for rendering on the rendering device;

    retrieving an audio signal of the multimedia content, the audio signal of a particular segment of the multimedia content is analyzed to generate an audio fingerprint, wherein the audio fingerprint is defined by a vector of data points;

    identifying the multimedia content by matching the vector defining the audio fingerprint of the particular segment with a corresponding vector of the multimedia content;

    identifying a plurality of trigger events that are likely to occur within the currently rendering multimedia content by analyzing at least part of the multimedia content, the analyzing is based on accumulated status leading up to a current context of a portion of the multimedia content currently being rendered on the rendering device;

    dynamically retrieving, in substantial real time, content that is contextually relevant to specific ones of the plurality of trigger events that are likely to occur, from one or more content sources; and

    mapping at least a portion of the content retrieved from the one or more sources to a specific portion of the multimedia content currently being rendered, the mapping causes the retrieved content to be provided for rendering when a particular one of the plurality of trigger events associated with the retrieved content occurs within the specific portion of the multimedia content, wherein the content retrieved from the one or more sources is additional information that is contextually relevant to the particular trigger event occurring in the specific portion of the multimedia content that is currently rendering on the rendering device, wherein method operations are performed by a processor.

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