Methods, Systems and Platform Devices for Aggregating Together Users of a TVand/or an Interconnected Network

• US 20110154224A1
• Filed: 12/16/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chatmetv, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Chatme TV Incorporated
• Inventors: Holmes, Scott, Bates, Dan, Sullivan, Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US12/970,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20110154224A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

Described herein are methods, systems, and devices comprising or utilizing a digital processing device comprising an operating system that is configured to read executable instructions for creating at least one contextual-based chatroom that is focused on a topic of interest that is in common between at least a first user (including e.g., a pulled or pushed user) and at least a second user (including e.g., a pulled or pushed user) of an interconnected network.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

(a) a digital processing device comprising an operating system and executable instructions for the operating system to create at least one contextual-based chatroom that is focused on a topic of interest that is in common between at least a first user and at least a second user of an interconnected network, wherein

(i) the chatroom contains the first user wherein the first user has accessed the chatroom,

(ii) the chatroom contains the second user wherein the second user has been aggregated into the chatroom based on the contextual activity of the second user in the interconnected network,

(iii) at least one user in the chatroom has published content within the chatroom,

(iv) a temporal and contextual message has been provided to at least one user within the chatroom; and

(b) a display device for displaying the chatroom to a user of the interconnected network.

2. A digital processing device comprising an operating system and executable instructions for the operating system to create at least one contextual-based chatroom that is focused on a topic of interest that is in common between at least a first user and at least a second user of an interconnected network, wherein

(i) the chatroom contains the first user wherein the first user has accessed the chatroom with a subscription and a geographic location that have been transmitted over the interconnected network,

(ii) the chatroom contains the second user wherein the second user has been aggregated into the chatroom based on the temporal and contextual activity of the second user in the interconnected network,

(iii) at least one user in the chatroom has published content within the chatroom, and

(iv) a temporal and contextual message has been provided to at least one user within the chatroom.

3. The device of claim 2 further comprising a display device that is a computer monitor, a television, a smartphone, or an internet appliance.

4. A computer program comprising:

(a) a computer program storage device readable by a digital processing system that is connected to an interconnected network; and

(b) instructions executable by the digital processing system for creating at least one contextual-based chatroom that is focused on a topic of interest that is in common between at least a first user and at least a second user of the interconnected network, wherein

(i) the chatroom contains the first user wherein the first user has accessed the chatroom with a subscription and a geographic location that have been transmitted over the interconnected network,

(ii) the chatroom contains the second user wherein the second user has been aggregated into the chatroom based on the temporal and contextual activity of the second user in the interconnected network,

(iii) at least one user in the chatroom has published content within the chatroom, and

(iv) a temporal and contextual message has been provided to at least one user within the chatroom.

5. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the chatroom is created based on the temporal and contextual activity of the at least one user within the interconnected network.

6. The computer program of claim 5 wherein the chatroom is created based on the transformed data of temporal and contextual activity of a user of the interconnected network.

7. The computer program of claim 6 wherein the temporal-based and contextual-based activity is transformed from one or more of the following:

an internet page accessed by a user of the interconnected network, the chat depicted on an internet page accessed by a user of the interconnected network, the meta-data from keyword searching performed by a user of the interconnected network, or a broadcast media associated with a user within the interconnected network.

8. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the contextual-based chatroom is created based on keywords or keyphrases that have been derived from a broadcast media.

11. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the subscription was transmitted over the interconnected network when the first user manually initiated access to a portal associated with the chatroom.

13. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the subscription was transmitted over the interconnected network when the executable instructions initiated access to a portal associated with the chatroom.

14. The computer program of claim 13 wherein the portal further comprises an electronic programming guide.

15. The computer program of any of claim 14 wherein the portal is displayed on a web-based browser, a console, a set-top box, a television, an internet appliance, or a smartphone.

16. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the second user has been aggregated into the chatroom based on a common interest with a different user in the chatroom.

17. The computer program of claim 16 wherein the second user has expressed a desire to interact with the different user in the chatroom.

18. The computer program product of claim 4 wherein the second user has been aggregated into the chatroom based on filtered temporal and contextual activity of the second user in the interconnected network.

19. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the chatroom is displayed on a computer monitor, a television, a smartphone, or an internet appliance.

20. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the published content is a communication from a user in the chatroom.

21. The computer program of claim 4 wherein the topic of interest is based on a television program.

9. (canceled)

12. The computer program of claim 9 wherein the portal further comprises an electronic programming guide.

10. (canceled)

22. A method comprising the step of transforming temporal and contextual activity of at least a first user and at least a second user of an interconnected network into a topic of interest for a chatroom that is in common between the first user and the second user, wherein

(i) the chatroom contains the first user wherein the first user has accessed the chatroom with a subscription and a geographic location that have been transmitted over the interconnected network,

(ii) the chatroom contains the second user wherein the second user has been aggregated into the chatroom based on the temporal and contextual activity of the second user in the interconnected network,

(iii) at least one user in the chatroom has published content within the chatroom, and

(iv) a temporal and contextual message has been provided to at least one user within the chatroom.

23. (canceled)