Methods, systems and apparatuses to enhance broadcast entertainment
First Claim
1. A method of enhancing broadcast content, comprising:
- receiving from a broadcast content receiving device a broadcast program from broadcast content, via an HDMI communication interface, the broadcast content being received from a broadcast content source over a closed network;
extracting broadcast program information about the broadcast program;
generating only a single program identification of the broadcast program based on the broadcast program information, wherein the generated single program identification identifies the broadcast program to allow access over a network to additional content from a plurality of different sources, where the additional content is associated with the broadcast program and the generated single program identification;
communicating the generated single program identification to a remote network access device to allow access over the network to the additional content from the plurality of different sources, wherein the communicating the generated single program identification includes not communicating any portion of the broadcast program to the remote network access device; and
periodically recommunicating the generated single program identification.
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Abstract
The present embodiments provide methods and systems to access additional, enhanced and/or interactive content associated with a broadcast program received over a closed broadcast network. Some embodiments provide methods of enhancing broadcast content by receiving broadcast content from a broadcast content source over a closed network, receiving a request to tune in a broadcast program, tuning in the broadcast program from the broadcast content, extracting a program identification of the broadcast program from the broadcast content, and communicating the program identification to a remote network access device to allow access over a network to additional content associated with the broadcast program.
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19 Claims
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1. A method of enhancing broadcast content, comprising:
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receiving from a broadcast content receiving device a broadcast program from broadcast content, via an HDMI communication interface, the broadcast content being received from a broadcast content source over a closed network; extracting broadcast program information about the broadcast program; generating only a single program identification of the broadcast program based on the broadcast program information, wherein the generated single program identification identifies the broadcast program to allow access over a network to additional content from a plurality of different sources, where the additional content is associated with the broadcast program and the generated single program identification; communicating the generated single program identification to a remote network access device to allow access over the network to the additional content from the plurality of different sources, wherein the communicating the generated single program identification includes not communicating any portion of the broadcast program to the remote network access device; and periodically recommunicating the generated single program identification. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of enhancing broadcast content, comprising:
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receiving, at a network access device, a first program identification periodically recommunicated from a playback device comprising a television coupled with a broadcast content receiving device that is configured to receive broadcast content from a broadcast content source over a closed network, where the television is configured to receive at least a portion of broadcast content being communicated from the broadcast content receiving device and extract the first program identification, where the first program identification is generated by the television based on first broadcast program information extracted from the broadcast content and the first program identification identifies a first broadcast program accessed from the broadcast content received from a content provider over the closed network, wherein the first broadcast program information is about the first broadcast program, wherein the receiving the first program identification includes not receiving any of the broadcast program; accessing a network; directing the access over the network to a predefined information source on the network; supplying the first program identification to the predefined information source; receiving a first identification of a first information source on the network in response to the supplying of the first program identification; accessing over the network the first information source based on the first identification of the first information source; and receiving and providing access to additional content from a plurality of different sources, wherein the additional content is related to the first broadcast program accessed. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19)
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16. A system providing access to additional content associated with broadcast content, the system comprising:
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a playback device comprising a television coupled with a broadcast content receiving device via an HDMI interface to receive broadcast programs; and wherein the television comprises; an extractor that extracts broadcast program information from a communication from the broadcast content receiving device, where the information extracted by the extractor comprises information about at least one of the one or more broadcast programs such that the television is configured to generate a broadcast program identification of the at least one of the one or more broadcast programs, wherein the broadcast program identification identifies the at least one of the one or more broadcast programs to allow access over a network to additional content from a plurality of different sources, where the additional content is associated with the at least one of the one or more broadcast programs and the broadcast program identification; and a transmitter that transmits and is configured to periodically recommunicate the broadcast program identification to a remote and separate network access device, wherein the transmitter does not transmit any portion of the one or more broadcast programs to the remote and separate network access device. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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