Customizable overlays based on subject matter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9100713-B2
Application number	US-201414213706-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2014
Priority date	Jan 12, 2004
Publication date	Aug 4, 2015
Grant date	Aug 4, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for customizing the display of interactive television overlays. A condition related to the display of an overlay on top of video for a television channel may be defined for each of a plurality of television channels. A default set of information types for an interactive television overlay (e.g., a FLIP overlay, a BROWSE overlay, etc.) may be defined for the plurality of television channels. When the overlay is displayed on top of video for a given television channel of the plurality of television channels, the overlay may include information of the default set of information types. One or more television channels of the plurality of television channels may be identified as channels for which the default set of information types does not apply (e.g., channels for which the overlay is not displayed or for which a custom set of information types is defined).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
storing a plurality of different items that are associated with one of a plurality of information types;
receiving a user indication to receive a media asset from a content source;
generating a display of the media asset in response to receiving the user indication;
retrieving, from memory, data that identifies subject matter of the media asset;
comparing the subject matter identified by the data to a subject matter type;
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Assignees

• Rovi Guides Inc

Inventors

• Walker Todd
• Ellis Michael D

Classifications

• H04N2005/44569

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/43615

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N2005/443

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4858 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/482

  Electricity · mapped topic