Television related searching

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9807464-B2
Application number	US-201113104662-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 10, 2011
Priority date	May 19, 2010
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes identifying metadata related to television programming being presented on a display device. The method further includes extracting one or more keywords from the metadata. The method further includes generating multiple search suggestions based on the keywords and first search results based on one or more of the search suggestions. The method further includes presenting the search suggestions and the first search results together on the display device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for television related searching, the method comprising:
causing a media program to be presented on a display device;
identifying metadata related to the media program being presented on the display device;
extracting a plurality of keywords from the identified metadata;
in response to extracting the plurality of keywords from the identified metadata, automatically generating a plurality of search suggestions based on the plurality of extracted keywords and based on search results responsive to each of the plurality of search suggestions, wherein additional search suggestions are generated in the plurality of search suggestions in response to determining that a television programming change has occurred;
obtaining a plurality of search results responsive to at least a portion of the plurality of search suggestions, wherein each of the plurality of search results is associated with a content type of a plurality of content types, and wherein a first search result of the plurality of search results is associated with a television channel content type and includes a first identifier corresponding to a television program that is scheduled to be broadcast at a future time, a second search result of the plurality of search results is associated with an application content type and includes a second identifier corresponding to an application for execution on the display device, and a third search result of the plurality of search results is associated with a web page content type and includes a third identifier corresponding to web content for presentation on the display device;
causing a first portion of the plurality of search suggestions and a second portion of the plurality of search results that includes the first search result, the second search result, and the third search result to be presented together on the display device in an overlay that is positioned over the media program in response to being triggered by information in the metadata, wherein:
the first search result includes the first identifier that, in response to receiving a selection of the first identifier, causes the television program that is scheduled to be broadcast at the future time to be recorded at the future time;
the second search result includes the second identifier that, in response to receiving a selection of the second identifier, determines whether the application has been installed, causes a prompt to install the application to be presented in response to determining that the application has not been installed, and causes the overlay to be removed and the application to be launched in response to determining that the application has been installed;
the third search result includes the third identifier that, in response to receiving a selection of the third identifier, causes the web page content corresponding to the third search result to be presented within the overlay in place of the first portion of the plurality of search suggestions and the second portion of the plurality of search results that includes the first search result, the second search result, and the third search result; and
the overlay is automatically removed in response to a time period elapsing in which one of the first portion of the plurality of search suggestions and the second portion of the plurality of search results has not been selected;

receiving a user selection of the first identifier corresponding to the first search result of the plurality of search results; and
in response to receiving the user selection of the first identifier corresponding to the first search result, causing content corresponding to the selected first identifier to be recorded at the future time by transmitting a record command to a recording device associated with the display device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the television programming change includes a change from a first channel to a second channel.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the television programming change includes a change from the media program to a different media program.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the television programming change includes a change within the media program.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the plurality of search results further comprises performing a search that inputs each of a predetermined number of the plurality of search suggestions to a search engine system and wherein the plurality of obtained search results are ranked in the overlay based on relevancy.

Assignees

• Dureau Vincent
• Choudhary Salahuddin
• Ling Benjamin
• Pai Shalini
• Miloseski Dennis
• Koh Justin
• Bragg Rich
• Chandel Alok
• Google Inc

Inventors

• Dureau Vincent
• Choudhary Salahuddin
• Ling Benjamin
• Pai Shalini
• Miloseski Dennis
• Koh Justin
• Bragg Rich
• Chandel Alok

Classifications

• H04N21/4828

  for searching programme descriptors (retrieval of video data G06F16/739) · CPC title

• H04N21/4622

  Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet (web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859) · CPC title

• H04N21/4826 Primary

  using recommendation lists, e.g. of programmes or channels sorted out according to their score · CPC title

• G06F16/48

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06F16/78

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title