Remote control activation based on predicted events

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9313440-B2
Application number	US-201313804559-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2013
Priority date	Mar 14, 2013
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods for predicting trigger events, such as an advertisement during a video program, and activating a remote control device in response to the prediction are described. By activating the remote control device at a particular time, the remote control device may save energy when listening for data from one or more terminal devices. The time to activate the remote control may be based on one or more factors, including the current presentation position and/or presentation speed of the video program. A remote control device may take additional actions the next time it listens for data, including illuminating backlights, turning on a display, displaying content on the display, interacting with other devices, etc.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
identifying a content item being presented by a device;
determining, by a computing device, a time for a remote control device to transition from a standby state to an active state, wherein the determining is based in part on an estimate of a presentation time of a trigger event occurring during presentation of the content item; and
transmitting, to the remote control device, identification of the determined time for the remote control device…

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Gilson Ross
• Sallas Michael

Classifications

• H04N21/44008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/812

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4436

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/42203

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/42222

  Electricity · mapped topic