Providing Interactivity Options for Television Broadcast Content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016249115-A1
Application number	US-201514631773-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 25, 2015
Priority date	Feb 25, 2015
Publication date	Aug 25, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods and system for providing interactive media for broadcast content includes receiving navigation input to a first channel that presents content of the television broadcast. Identity of the content is determined by generating an audio fingerprint using an audio signal of the content. Types of interactive media available during the presentation of the content from the first channel and a predetermined input for accessing the graphical notification are identified and used to generate a graphical notification. Access to interactive media presented within the graphical notification is enabled during rendering of the graphical notification and at any time during rendering of the content from the first channel, upon providing the predefined input. When the predefined input is detected, the types of interactive media available for the content are rendered, and content for the select one of the interactive media is presented, during presentation of the content from the first channel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for presenting interactivity options for a television broadcast, comprising:
receiving an audio fingerprint generated for a portion of content of a first channel selected for television broadcast, the audio fingerprint generated using an audio signal of the content; determining identity of the content being presented on the first channel using the generated audio fingerprint; identifying, based on the identity of the content, types of interactive media available for the content and a predefined input for accessing the types of interactive media, the identified types of interactive media and the predefined input used to generate a graphical notification for presenting during rendering of the content from the first channel, in response to detecting the predefined input; providing data to enable access to the types of interactive media via the graphical notification at any time during the rendering of the content from the first channel such that selection of one of the types of interactive media causes presentation of the content for the selected one of the types of interactive media during rendering of the content of the first channel, the content for the selected one of the types of interactive media having a contextual relationship to the content of the first channel, wherein the types and content of the interactive media change over time as the content of the first channel changes based on progression of the television broadcast, wherein the operations are performed by content processing module executing on a server computing device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining identity of the content further includes,
processing the received audio fingerprint for the portion of the content, the processing includes matching the audio fingerprint for the portion of the content to a specific one of a plurality of pre-computed audio fingerprints available for the content.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the pre-computed audio fingerprints are stored in a local memory and retrieved for comparing and matching.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the identity of the content is verified after a pre-defined interval to determine user engagement with the first channel meets a pre-defined threshold of time, wherein the verification includes,
receiving the audio fingerprint for a different portion of the content; and matching the audio fingerprint of the different portion to corresponding one of the plurality of pre-computed audio fingerprints.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein types of interactive media for the graphical notification are provided for rendering, after verification that the content presented for rendering is from the first channel.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying types of interactive media further includes, querying one or more content sources to identify interactive media available for the content of the first channel; and
categorizing the interactive media based on content type.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further includes,
determining identity of a user selecting the content for broadcast television; and identifying a notification configuration associated with the user for viewing the types of interactive media, wherein the notification configuration determines which ones of the types of interactive media available for the content to include for generating the graphical notification for the content for presenting to the user.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further includes,
receiving audio fingerprint for a different portion of content of television broadcast for verification of user engagement; detecting a switch in the content from the first channel to a second channel during verification of user engagement; and identifying the types of interactive media available for the second channel, in response to detecting the switch, the identified types of interactive media are provided for updating the graphical notification to enable access to the types of interactive media available during presentation of the content from the second channel, wherein the types of interactive media available for the second channel being provided after determining user engagement with the second channel meets a pre-defined threshold of time.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further includes,
receiving user interaction at the select ones of the types of interactive media presented for the first channel; and generating a graphical notification configuration for the user, the generated graphical notification including the types of interactive media for which the user interaction is detected, the updated graphical notification configuration used in identifying the types of interactive media to be provided for presenting in the graphical notification during future rendition of content from any channel for the user.

10 . A method for presenting interactivity options for a television broadcast, comprising:
receiving navigation input to a first channel that presents content of the television broadcast; generating an audio fingerprint for a portion of content of the first channel using an audio signal of the content, the generated audio fingerprint used to determine identity of the content presented on the first channel; generating a graphical notification for presenting during presentation of the content from the first channel, the graphical notification identifying types of interactive media available for the content based on the identity of the content and a predefined input for accessing the types of interactive media; presenting the graphical notification on a display screen of the client computing device, for a limited duration, while rendering the content from the first channel, the presenting is done after determining that the first channel has presented content for at least pre-determined period of time; enabling access to the types of interactive media during the rendering of the graphical notification and at any time during the rendering of the content from the first channel upon detection of the predefined input; and presenting content for a select one of the types of interactive media during presentation of the content of the first channel, the content for the select one of the types of interactive media having a contextual relationship to the content of the first channel, wherein the types and content of interactive media available for the content of the first channel changes over time as the content of the first channel changes based on progression of the television broadcast and wherein method operations are performed by a content processing module executing on a processor of a client computing device.

11 . The method of claim 10 , further includes,
presenting the graphical notification at periodic intervals during the presentation of the content from the first channel, the periodic intervals defined by a pre-defined notification frequency.

12 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the types of interactive media presented in the graphical notification is based on graphical notification configuration associated with a user providing the navigation input to select the first channel for television broadcast.

13 . The method of claim 10 , further includes verifying identity of the content for television broadcast after a pre-defined interval user engagement with the content from the first channel meets a pre-defined threshold of time, wherein the verification includes,
generating an audio fingerprint for a different portion of the content, the generated audio fingerprint of the different portion used in verifying identity of the content presented for television broadca

Assignees

• Yahoo Inc

Inventors

• Lincke Scott

Classifications

• H04N21/4788

  communicating with other users, e.g. chatting {(arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)} · CPC title

• H04N21/25891

  being end-user preferences (retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18) · CPC title

• H04N21/266

  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 title

• H04N21/8545 Primary

  for generating interactive applications · CPC title

• H04N21/233

  Processing of audio elementary streams {(monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58)} · CPC title