Content display system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9064271-B2
Application number	US-201414265258-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2014
Priority date	Aug 13, 2008
Publication date	Jun 23, 2015
Grant date	Jun 23, 2015

Abstract

A portable device includes solid-state memory, an Ethernet and/or wireless network connection, and an HDMI. The portable device receives content guide data from a first server and displays a content guide on a display. In response to a user's selection of a content item, the portable device requests the content item over the Internet from a second server. The portable device receives the content item, stores the content item in solid-state memory, generates display signals that represent the content item, and sends the display signals to a display. The second server may match the content item with relevant advertisements based on keywords associated with the content item and the advertisements. The second server may send selected advertisement URLs to the portable device. Using the URLs, the portable device may obtain the advertisements over the Internet and cause the display to display the advertisements in conjunction with the content item.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
sending display signals, by a portable device, to a display device that represent a content guide, each selectable content item listing in the content guide is associated with a URL;
receiving, by the portable device, a selection of a selectable content item listed in the content guide;
in response to receiving the selection, retrieving a URL associated with the selected selectable content item;
retrieving content data using the r…

Assignees

• Tivo Inc

Inventors

• Barton James M

Classifications

• H04N21/23424 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/10

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/41407

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0241

  Physics · mapped topic