Concepts for providing an enhanced media presentation

• US 9,798,828 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2014
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wellen, Alex, Gallagher, Marisa, Loheide, Don, Wise, Michael, Persaud, Rajin, Koetter, Michael, Estenson, KC, Ehlers, Dave, Hinton, Chris, Quigley, Michael, Legg, Jeremy, Teissler, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): VAUGHN, GREGORY J
• Application Number:
  US14/522,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/07 characterised by processes or methods for the generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234345 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/266 Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/440245 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/45457 applied to a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 : for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 : End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4886 : for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 : involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
• 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 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 : by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 : Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.

Claims

1. A method for providing an enhanced news channel to an end user, the method comprising:

receiving rundown data comprising segment data corresponding to one or more segments of an enhanced media presentation provided via the enhanced news channel, the segment data comprising first segment data corresponding to a first segment, the first segment data comprising (a) a video data identifier configured to identify the video data associated with the first segment and (b) a status, the status configured to indicate that the first segment (i) was previously aired, (ii) is currently being aired, or (iii) has not been aired;

receiving video data associated with a segment of the one or more segments, the video data comprising at least one tag identifying the segment; and

causing display of an end user interface, the end user interface simultaneously displaying (a) at least a portion of the video data for the segment, (b) a rundown frame populated with one or more segment tiles, the one or more segment tiles comprising a first segment tile corresponding to the first segment, wherein the first segment tile (i) provides at least a portion of the rundown data for the first segment and (ii) is configured to provide one or more functions corresponding to the first segment, the provided functions determined based on the status of the first segment.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving the video data via at least one of over the air content distribution network, a linear content distribution network, a cable content distribution network, a satellite content distribution network, or an Internet Protocol (IP) based content distribution network and receiving the rundown data via an IP network.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving ticker data, wherein the ticker data is organized into sets of ticker data with (a) each set of ticker data comprising a headline and (b) at least one set of ticker data associated with at least one of a content object and a segment; and

causing display of at least a portion of the ticker data.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

receiving input indicating user selection of a set of ticker data;

determining whether the selected set of ticker data is associated with a content object;

responsive to determining that the selected set of ticker data is associated with a content object;

identifying the content object associated with the set of ticker data,

requesting the content object associated with the set of ticker data,

receiving the content object associated with the set of ticker data, and

causing display of the content object associated with the set of ticker data.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

receiving input indicating user selection of a set of ticker data;

determining whether the selected set of ticker data is associated with a segment;

responsive to determining that the selected set of ticker data is associated with a segment;

identifying the segment associated with the set of ticker data,

requesting the segment associated with the set of ticker data,

receiving the segment associated with the set of ticker data, and

causing display of the segment associated with the set of ticker data.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the ticker data is received via a rich site summary (RSS) feed.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the at least a portion of the ticker data is configured for display via a 10 foot user interface.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying via the end user interface one or more content tiles, each content tile corresponding to a content object associated with the segment;

receiving input indicating user selection of one of the one or more content tiles;

requesting the content object represented by the content tile;

receiving the requested content object; and

causing display of at least a portion of the requested content object.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving input indicating user selection of a second segment of the one or more segments;

requesting (a) video data identified by the video identifier associated with the second segment and (b) one or more content tiles, each content tile representing one of the one or more content objects associated with the second segment; and

responsive to receiving the requested video data and the one or more content tiles, causing display of (a) the requested video data for the second segment, (b) the requested content tiles, and (c) at least a portion of the rundown data configured to indicate that the video data associated with the second segment is being displayed.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving an indicator indicating at least one of an end of the first segment and a beginning of a next segment;

responsive to receiving the indicator, requesting one or more content tiles, each content tile representing one of the one or more content objects associated with the next segment;

receiving segment data associated with the next segment; and

causing simultaneous display of (a) at least a portion of the video data for the next segment, (b) at least one of the one or more content tiles, and (c) at least a portion of the rundown data configured to indicate that the video data associated with the next segment is being displayed.

11. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including program code, the at least one memory and the program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

receive rundown data comprising segment data corresponding to one or more segments of an enhanced media presentation provided via the enhanced news channel, the segment data comprising first segment data corresponding to a first segment, the first segment data comprising (a) a video data identifier configured to identify the video data associated with the first segment and (b) a status, the status configured to indicate that the first segment (i) was previously aired, (ii) is currently being aired, or (iii) has not been aired;

receive video data associated with a segment of the one or more segments, the video data comprising at least one tag identifying the segment; and

cause display of an end user interface, the end user interface simultaneously displaying (a) at least a portion of the video data for the segment, (b) a rundown frame populated with one or more segment tiles, the one or more segment tiles comprising a first segment tile corresponding to the first segment, wherein the first segment tile (i) provides at least a portion of the rundown data for the first segment and (ii) is configured to provide one or more functions corresponding to the first segment, the provided functions determined based on the status of the first segment.

12. The apparatus claim 11, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to receive the video data via at least one of over the air content distribution network, a linear content distribution network, a cable content distribution network, a satellite content distribution network, or an Internet Protocol (IP) based content distribution network and receive the rundown data via an IP network.

13. The apparatus claim 11, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive ticker data, wherein the ticker data is organized into sets of ticker data with (a) each set of ticker data comprising a headline and (b) at least one set of ticker data associated with at least one of a content object and a segment; and

cause display of at least a portion of the ticker data.

14. The apparatus claim 13, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to

receive input indicating user selection of a set of ticker data;

determine whether the selected set of ticker data is associated with a content object; and

responsive to determining that the selected set of ticker data is associated with a content object;

identify the content object associated with the set of ticker data,

request the content object associated with the set of ticker data,

receive the content object associated with the set of ticker data, and

cause display of the content object associated with the set of ticker data.

15. The apparatus claim 13, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive input indicating user selection of a set of ticker data;

determine whether the selected set of ticker data is associated with a segment; and

responsive to determining that the selected set of ticker data is associated with a segment;

identify the segment associated with the set of ticker data,

request the segment associated with the set of ticker data,

receive the segment associated with the set of ticker data, and

cause display of the segment associated with the set of ticker data.

16. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the ticker data is received via a rich site summary (RSS) feed.

17. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the at least a portion of the ticker data is configured for display via a 10 foot user interface.

18. The apparatus claim 11, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

display via the end user interface one or more content tiles, each content tile corresponding to a content object associated with the segment;

receive input indicating user selection of one of the one or more content tiles;

request the content object represented by the content tile;

receive the requested content object; and

cause display of at least a portion of the requested content object.

19. The apparatus claim 11, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive input indicating user selection of a second segment of the one or more segments;

request (a) video data identified by the video identifier associated with the second segment and (b) one or more content tiles, each content tile representing one of the one or more content objects associated with the second segment; and

responsive to receiving the requested video data and the one or more content tiles, cause display of (a) the requested video data for the second segment, (b) the requested content tiles, and (c) at least a portion of the rundown data configured to indicate that the video data associated with the second segment is being displayed.

20. The apparatus claim 11, wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive an indicator indicating at least one of an end of the first segment and a beginning of a next segment;

responsive to receiving the indicator, request one or more content tiles, each content tile representing one of the one or more content objects associated with the next segment;

receive segment data associated with the next segment; and

cause simultaneous display of (a) at least a portion of the video data for the next segment, (b) at least one of the one or more content tiles, and (c) at least a portion of the rundown data configured to indicate that the video data associated with the next segment is being displayed.

21. A computer program product for providing an enhanced media presentation, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

an executable portion configured to receive rundown data comprising segment data corresponding to one or more segments of an enhanced media presentation provided via the enhanced news channel, the segment data comprising first segment data corresponding to a first segment, the first segment data comprising (a) a video data identifier configured to identify the video data associated with the first segment and (b) a status, the status configured to indicate that the first segment (i) was previously aired, (ii) is currently being aired, or (iii) has not been aired;

an executable portion configured to receive video data associated with a segment of the one or more segments, the video data comprising at least one tag identifying the segment; and

an executable portion configured to cause display of an end user interface, the end user interface simultaneously displaying (a) at least a portion of the video data for the segment, (b) a rundown frame populated with one or more segment tiles, the one or more segment tiles comprising a first segment tile corresponding to the first segment, wherein the first segment tile (i) provides at least a portion of the rundown data for the first segment and (ii) is configured to provide one or more functions corresponding to the first segment, the provided functions determined based on the status of the first segment.

22. The computer program product of claim 21 configured to receive the video data via at least one of over the air content distribution network, a linear content distribution network, a cable content distribution network, a satellite content distribution network, or an Internet Protocol (IP) based content distribution network and receive the rundown data via an IP network.