Second screens and widgets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9380355-B2
Application number	US-201313873657-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 30, 2013
Priority date	Feb 5, 2009
Publication date	Jun 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 28, 2016

Abstract

Cell phones and other devices are used to complement enjoyment of television or other video media, through use of corresponding software applications (“widgets”). A great variety of related features and arrangements are particularly detailed.

First claim

I claim:

1. A method comprising the acts:
a cell phone sensing information from a television, the information serving to identify a sporting event program being displayed on a screen of the television, and also serving to identify a television network that distributed the sporting event program, the displayed view of the sporting event having been selected by a television producer from among plural different camera views of the event;
based on said sensed information, downloadin…

Assignees

• Digimarc Corp

Inventors

• Rodriguez Tony F

Classifications

• H04N21/4126

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/04

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/06

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/858

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q30/02 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic