Experience redirection with interactive feature changes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10027609-B2
Application number	US-201414313524-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2014
Priority date	Jun 24, 2013
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

A system and method are described for allowing users to forward a media content experience, such as an Internet site, to another computing device. The system may allow the user to select individual portions and elements of the site for forwarding, to customize the level and type of experience being forwarded. The selection of portions and elements may be made based on the capabilities of the other computing device, and the forwarding may be simultaneously made to multiple other devices, each with potentially different combinations of the portions and elements of the site. In some embodiments, a text message link service may be offered by a content ingestion computing device, whereby a user may simply text an address of a site to be forwarded, and in response the user may receive a text message containing a link to the content ingestion computing device with a parameter identifying the site to be forwarded.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
providing, by a first computing device, a user with an option to forward a network site to a second device;
providing the user with an option to forward a modified version of the network site to the second device, wherein the modified version of the network site modifies or omits one or more interactive features of the network site; and
after a selection of the option to forward the modified version, forwarding the modified version of the network site to the second device,
wherein the providing the user with an option to forward a modified version of the network site to the second device comprises providing the user with an option of forwarding a directional pad navigation version of the network site, wherein the directional pad navigation version of the network site omits one or more features based on a determination of whether the one or more features are formatted for navigation using up, down, left, or right directional inputs.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
preparing the modified version of the network site by identifying one or more user interaction capabilities of the second device, the one or more user interaction capabilities determined based on one or more of hardware or software capabilities of the second device; and
filtering the network site, based on the user interaction capabilities, to identify the one or more interactive features from the network site that are to be modified or omitted.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
preparing the modified version of the network site by identifying one or more user interaction capabilities of the second device, and including, in the modified version of the network site, a modified user interface to accommodate interactive capabilities of the second device.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing the user with a listing of a plurality of interactive features on the network site, and receiving user selection of one or more ones of the interactive features in the listing to be removed from the network site before forwarding the modified version of the network site to the second device.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
requesting that the user provide login credentials to log in to a media service account of the user;
identifying one or more devices registered with the media service account; and
providing the user with an option to select one or more of the identified one or more devices registered with the media service account that are to receive the forwarded modified version of the network site.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the providing the user with an option to forward the modified version comprises:
providing the user with an option of forwarding a non-interactive version.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing the user with an option of omitting one or more pulldown menus from the network site when forwarding the modified version of the network site to the second device.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the directional pad navigation version of the network site modifies one or more navigation features to be navigable using up, down, left, or right directional inputs.

9. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory, storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
request that a user provide login credentials to log in to a media service account of the user;
identify one or more devices registered with the media service account;
provide the user with an option to forward a network page from a first device registered with the media service account to a second device registered with the media service account;
provide the user with an option to forward a modified version of the network page to the second device, wherein the modified version modifies or omits, based on a hardware user interface of the second device, one or more interactive features from the network page;
after a selection of the option to forward the modified version, forward the modified version of the network page to the second device; and
receive, from the second device, a user input associated with the forwarded modified version and associated with the hardware user interface of the second device.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
prepare the modified version of the network page by identifying one or more user interaction capabilities of the second device, and filtering the network page based on the user interaction capabilities to identify the one or more interactive features from the network page that are to be modified or omitted.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
prepare the modified version of the network page by identifying one or more user interaction capabilities of the second device, and including, in the modified version of the network page, a modified user interface to accommodate interactive capabilities of the second device.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
provide the user with a listing of a plurality of interactive features on the network page, and receiving user selection of one or more ones of the interactive features in the listing to be removed from the network page before forwarding the modified version of the network page to the second device.

13. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
provide the user with an option to select one or more of the identified devices registered with the media service account that are to receive the forwarded modified version of the network page.

14. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
provide the user with an option of forwarding a non-interactive version of an interactive network page to the second device.

15. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
generate a table indicating whether one or more portions of the network page are compatible with user interaction capabilities of the second device.

16. A method comprising:
providing, by a first computing device, a user with an option to forward a network site to a second device;
providing the user with an option to forward a modified version of the network site to the second device, wherein the modified version of the network site modifies or omits, based on a hardware user interface of the second device, one or more pulldown menus from the network site;
after a selection of the option to forward the modified version, forwarding the modified version of the network site to the second device; and
receiving, from the second device, a user input associated with the forwarded modified version and associated with the hardware user interface of the second device.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
preparing the modified version of the network site by identifying one or more user interaction capabilities of the second device, the user interaction capabilities determined based on one or more of hardware or software capabilities of the second devi

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Hertz Adam
• Chen Michael A
• Kotay Sree

Classifications

• H04L51/046 Primary

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• H04L51/08

  Annexed information, e.g. attachments · CPC title

• H04L51/18

  Commands or executable codes · CPC title

• H04L51/14

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/12

  Electricity · mapped topic