Concepts for providing an enhanced media presentation

• US 9,965,568 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2014
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• 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:
  US14/523,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,292 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:

generating rundown data comprising a plurality of sets of segment data, each set of segment data associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation show episode, wherein the plurality of sets of segment data comprises first segment data corresponding to a first segment of the enhanced media presentation show episode;

tagging video data comprising at least the first segment with linking data comprising a segment identifier corresponding to the first segment, the segment identifier configured to identify the set of segment data corresponding to the first segment; and

providing (a) the rundown data via an Internet Protocol (IP) based network and (b) the tagged video data via at least one of an over the air content distribution network, a linear content distribution network, a cable content distribution network, a satellite content distribution network, or an IP based content distribution network,

wherein (a) the plurality of sets of segment data are used to populate a rundown frame of an end user interface with a plurality of segment tiles, the plurality of segment tiles comprising a first segment tile corresponding to the first segment, the plurality of segment tiles configured to represent the show episode and (b) the segment identifier of the linking data is configured to cause simultaneous display of (i) at least a portion of the video data for the first segment and (ii) the plurality of segment tiles in the rundown frame, the first segment tile displayed so as to indicate that the video data for the first segment is being displayed.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the linking data comprises at least one of a show identifier, a segment identifier, a start time, a duration, a segment type, a topic identifier, a segment start point, a segment end point, or a segment title.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising tagging the video data with contextual data, the contextual data comprising at least one of a relevant category, a key word, a location, an individual, or a characterization of the quality or sentiment of the video.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein tagging the video data comprises tagging the video data with an ID3 tag.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the linking data is configured to be read by a computing entity and provided to a client application resident thereon.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving a request for rundown data based at least in part on the linking data provided to a computing entity.

7. A system for providing an enhanced media presentation, the system comprising at least one memory and at least one processor, the system configured to at least:

generate rundown data comprising a plurality of sets of segment data, each set of segment data associated with a segment of an enhanced media show episode, wherein the plurality of sets of segment data comprises first segment data corresponding to a first segment of the enhanced media presentation show episode;

tag video data comprising at least the first segment with linking data comprising a segment identifier corresponding to the first segment, the segment identifier configured to identify the set of segment data corresponding to the first segment; and

provide (a) the rundown data via an Internet Protocol (IP) based network and (b) the tagged video data via at least one of an over the air content distribution network, a linear content distribution network, a cable content distribution network, a satellite content distribution network, or an IP based content distribution network,

wherein (a) the plurality of sets of segment data are used to populate a rundown frame of an end user interface with a plurality of segment tiles, the plurality of segment tiles comprising a first segment tile corresponding to the first segment, the plurality of segment tiles configured to represent the show episode and (b) the segment identifier of the linking data is configured to cause simultaneous display of (i) at least a portion of the video data for the first segment and (ii) the plurality of segment tiles in the rundown frame, the first segment tile displayed so as to indicate that the video data for the first segment is being displayed.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the linking data comprises at least one of a show identifier, a segment identifier, a start time, a duration, a segment type, a topic identifier, a segment start point, a segment end point, or a segment title.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the system is further configured to tag the video data with contextual data, the contextual data comprising at least one of a relevant category, a key word, a location, an individual, or a characterization of the quality or sentiment of the video.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein tagging the video data comprises tagging the video data with an ID3 tag.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the linking data is configured to be read by a computing entity and provided to a client application resident thereon.

12. The system of claim 7 wherein the system is further configured to receive a request for rundown data based at least in part on the linking data provided to a computing entity.

13. 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 generate rundown data comprising a plurality of sets of segment data, each set of segment data associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation show episode, wherein the plurality of sets of segment data comprises first segment data corresponding to a first segment of the enhanced media presentation show episode;

an executable portion configured to tag video data comprising at least the first segment with linking data comprising a segment identifier corresponding to the first segment, the segment identifier configured to identify the set of segment data corresponding to the first segment; and

an executable portion configured to provide (a) the rundown data via an Internet Protocol (IP) based network and (b) the tagged video data via at least one of an over the air content distribution network, a linear content distribution network, a cable content distribution network, a satellite content distribution network, or an IP based content distribution network,

wherein (a) the plurality of sets of segment data are used to populate a rundown frame of an end user interface with a plurality of segment tiles, the plurality of segment tiles comprising a first segment tile corresponding to the first segment, the plurality of segment tiles configured to represent the show episode and (b) the segment identifier of the linking data is configured to cause simultaneous display of (i) at least a portion of the video data for the first segment and (ii) the plurality of segment tiles in the rundown frame, the first segment tile displayed so as to indicate that the video data for the first segment is being displayed.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the linking data comprises at least one of a show identifier, a segment identifier, a start time, a duration, a segment type, a topic identifier, a segment start point, a segment end point, or a segment title.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising an executable portion configured to tag the video data with contextual data, the contextual data comprising at least one of a relevant category, a key word, a location, an individual, or a characterization of the quality or sentiment of the video.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein tagging the video data comprises tagging the video data with an ID3 tag.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the linking data is configured to be read by a computing entity and provided to a client application resident thereon.

18. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising an executable portion configured to receive a request for rundown data based at least in part on the linking data provided to a computing entity.