Concepts for providing an enhanced media presentation

• US 9,875,318 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2014
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• 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:
  US14/523,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121420A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,187 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 media presentation, the method comprising:

receiving rundown data associated with one or more segments of an enhanced media presentation, the rundown data identifying a segment identifier for each segment configured to identify (a) the segment and (b) the video data associated with the segment;

receiving video data associated with a first segment, the video data comprising at least one tag identifying the first segment;

causing display of a user interface comprising a rundown portion and a video portion, wherein the user interface is configured to allow an end user to interactively experience a broadcasted enhanced media presentation;

causing (a) at least a portion of the rundown data to be displayed in the rundown portion of the user interface, and (b) at least a portion of the video data to be displayed in the video portion of the user interface, wherein (a) the at least a portion of the rundown data, and the at least a portion of the video data are displayed by the user interface simultaneously, (b) the at least a portion of the rundown data is displayed in a manner such that the rundown data corresponding to the first segment is configured to indicate that the video data for the first segment is being currently displayed, and (c) the at least a portion of the rundown data is displayed as a plurality of segment tiles, each segment tile corresponding to one of the one or more segments;

receiving updated rundown data indicating a second segment is now currently being displayed, wherein the second segment is not one of the one or more segments and a second segment tile corresponding to the second segment was not previously displayed by the user interface; and

causing display of the second segment tile in the rundown portion of the user interface in a position corresponding to a relative position of the second segment with respect to the one or more segments.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving ticker data, the ticker data comprising one or more headlines; and

causing display of a least a portion of the ticker data in a ticker portion of a user interface,

wherein the at least a portion of the ticker data is displayed simultaneously with the at least a portion of the rundown data, the at least a portion of the video data, and the at least a portion of the object data.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the ticker portion of the user interface comprises one or more selectable channel buttons, the method further comprising:

responsive to receiving user input selecting one of the one or more selectable channel buttons, requesting video data for a media presentation being live on a channel represented by the user-selected channel button.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the ticker portion is located along the bottom of the user interface.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least a portion of the rundown data comprises one or more rundown tiles, and the at least a portion of the video data comprises a video associated with at least one of the one or more rundown tiles.

6. The method of claim 1,

wherein:

the rundown data identifies content object data associated with one or more content objects providing media content related to a topic associated with each segment, and

the user interface further comprises a content portion, and

the method further comprises;

causing at least a portion of the content object data to be displayed in the content portion of the user interface, wherein the at least a portion of the content object data comprises at least one content object tile associated with a content object, the content object associated with the same at least one of the one or more rundown tiles;

receiving input indicating user selection of a content object from the content object data;

requesting the content object based at least in part on the content object data;

receiving the content object;

causing the display of the content object in a content object portion of the user interface, the content object portion of the user interface covering the video portion;

causing the display of the at least a portion of the video data in a pushed back video portion of the user interface, wherein the pushed back video portion of the user interface is a sub-portion of the rundown portion.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the rundown portion is approximately 320 pixels wide and located to the right of the content portion.

8. 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.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the video portion comprises at least half of the user interface.

10. The method of claim 6 wherein the content portion is located below the video portion.

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 associated with one or more segments of an enhanced media presentation, the rundown data identifying a segment identifier for each segment configured to identify (a) the segment and (b) the video data associated with the segment;

receive video data associated with a first segment, the video data comprising at least one tag identifying the first segment;

cause display of a user interface comprising a rundown portion and a video portion, wherein the user interface is configured to allow an end user to interactively experience a broadcasted enhanced media presentation;

cause (a) at least a portion of the rundown data to be displayed in the rundown portion of the user interface, and (b) at least a portion of the video data to be displayed in the video portion of the user interface, wherein (a) the at least a portion of the rundown data, and the at least a portion of the video data are displayed by the user interface simultaneously, (b) the at least a portion of the rundown data is displayed in a manner such that the rundown data corresponding to the first segment is configured to indicate that the video data for the first segment is being currently displayed, and (c) the at least a portion of the rundown data is displayed as a plurality of segment tiles, each segment tile corresponding to one of the one or more segments;

receive updated rundown data indicating a second segment is now currently being displayed, wherein the second segment is not one of the one or more segments and a second segment tile corresponding to the second segment was not previously displayed by the user interface; and

cause display of the second segment tile in the rundown portion of the user interface in a position corresponding to a relative position of the second segment with respect to the one or more segments.

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

receive ticker data, the ticker data comprising one or more headlines; and

cause display of a least a portion of the ticker data in a ticker portion of the user interface,

wherein the at least a portion of the ticker data is displayed simultaneously with the at least a portion of the rundown data, the at least a portion of the video data, and the at least a portion of the object data.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the ticker portion of the user interface comprises one or more selectable channel buttons, and wherein the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to, responsive to receiving user input selecting one of the one or more selectable channel buttons, request video data for a media presentation being live on a channel represented by the user-selected channel button.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the ticker portion is located along the bottom of the user interface.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the at least a portion of the rundown data comprises one or more rundown tiles, and the at least a portion of the video data comprises a video associated with at least one of the one or more rundown tiles.

16. The apparatus claim 11, wherein:

the rundown data identifies content object data associated with one or more content objects providing media content related to a topic associated with each segment, and

the user interface further comprises a content portion, and

the memory and program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to;

cause at least a portion of the content object data to be displayed in the content portion of the user interface, wherein the at least a portion of the content object data comprises at least one content object tile associated with a content object, the content object associated with the same at least one of the one or more rundown tiles;

receive input indicating user selection of a content object from the content object data;

request the content object based at least in part on the content object data;

receive the content object;

cause the display of the content object in a content object portion of the user interface, the content object portion of the user interface covering the video portion;

cause the display of the at least a portion of the video data in a pushed back video portion of the user interface, wherein the pushed back video portion of the user interface is a sub-portion of the rundown portion.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the rundown portion is approximately 320 pixels wide and located to the right of the content portion.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the content portion is located below the video portion.

19. 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.

20. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the video portion comprises at least half of the user interface.

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 associated with one or more segments of an enhanced media presentation, the rundown data identifying a segment identifier for each segment configured to identify (a) the segment and (b) the video data associated with the segment;

an executable portion configured to receive video data associated with a first segment, the video data comprising at least one tag identifying the first segment;

an executable portion configured to cause display of a user interface comprising a rundown portion and a video portion, wherein the user interface is configured to allow an end user to interactively experience a broadcasted enhanced media presentation;

an executable portion configured to cause (a) at least a portion of the rundown data to be displayed in the rundown portion of the user interface, and (b) at least a portion of the video data to be displayed in the video portion of the user interface, wherein (a) the at least a portion of the rundown data, and the at least a portion of the video data are displayed by the user interface simultaneously, (b) the at least a portion of the rundown data is displayed in a manner such that the rundown data corresponding to the first segment is configured to indicate that the video data for the first segment is being currently displayed, and (c) the at least a portion of the rundown data is displayed as a plurality of segment tiles, each segment tile corresponding to one of the one or more segments;

an executable portion configured to receive updated rundown data indicating a second segment is now currently being displayed, wherein the second segment is not one of the one or more segments and a second segment tile corresponding to the second segment was not previously displayed by the user interface; and

an executable portion configured to cause display of the second segment tile in the rundown portion of the user interface in a position corresponding to a relative position of the second segment with respect to the one or more segments.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, the computer-readable program code portions further comprising:

an executable portion configured to receive ticker data, the ticker data comprising one or more headlines; and

an executable portion configured to cause display of a least a portion of the ticker data in a ticker portion of the user interface,

wherein the at least a portion of the ticker data is displayed simultaneously with the at least a portion of the rundown data, the at least a portion of the video data, and the at least a portion of the object data.

23. The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the ticker portion of the user interface comprises one or more selectable channel buttons, and the system is further configured to, responsive to receiving user input selecting one of the one or more selectable channel buttons, request video data for a media presentation being live on a channel represented by the user-selected channel button.

24. The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the ticker portion is located along the bottom of the user interface.

25. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein the at least a portion of the rundown data comprises one or more rundown tiles, and the at least a portion of the video data comprises a video associated with at least one of the one or more rundown tiles.

26. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein:

the rundown data identifies content object data associated with one or more content objects providing media content related to a topic associated with each segment, and

the user interface further comprises a content portion, and

the computer-readable program code portions further comprising;

an executable portion configured to cause at least a portion of the content object data to be displayed in the content portion of the user interface, wherein the at least a portion of the content object data comprises at least one content object tile associated with a content object, the content object associated with the same at least one of the one or more rundown tiles;

an executable portion configured to receive input indicating user selection of a content object from the content object data;

an executable portion configured to request the content object based at least in part on the content object data;

an executable portion configured to receive the content object;

an executable portion configured to cause the display of the content object in a content object portion of the user interface, the content object portion of the user interface covering the video portion;

an executable portion configured to cause the display of the at least a portion of the video data in a pushed back video portion of the user interface, wherein the pushed back video portion of the display is a sub-portion of the rundown portion.

27. The computer program product of claim 26 wherein the rundown portion is approximately 320 pixels wide and located to the right of the content portion.

28. The computer program product of claim 26 wherein the content portion is located below the video portion.

29. The computer program product of claim 21, the computer-readable program code portions further comprising an executable portion 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.

30. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein the video portion comprises at least half of the user interface.