Dynamic current results for second device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9875242-B2
Application number	US-201414294179-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2014
Priority date	Jun 3, 2014
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for providing at least one dynamic current result to a second device, such as a mobile phone, where the at least one dynamic current result is related to content that is active on a first device such as a television. The dynamic current result may be generated based on a search query.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a processor, a content fingerprint for a currently active content on a first device;
correlating, at the processor, the content fingerprint to a database entry in a known content database;
generating, at the processor, a first search query based on the database entry;
receiving, at the processor, a first dynamic current result based on the generated first search query;
providing, by the processor, the first dynamic current result on a second device;
generating, at the processor, a second search query and receiving, at the processor, a second dynamic current result that is provided to the second device that is different from the first dynamic current result in response to the currently active content being presented on the first device a second time; and
providing, based on an update frequency threshold, a given content as the first dynamic current result or the second dynamic current result based on when an amount of times the given content or a content host that is communicatively coupled to the processor is updated within a time period exceeds the update frequency threshold.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content fingerprint corresponds to a current position of the currently active content.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the current position is one selected from the group consisting of: a frame, a scene, a portion, a timestamp, and a time range.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the content fingerprint is one selected from the group consisting of: an audio fingerprint, a video fingerprint, a title, a caption track, and a content identifier (ID).

5. The method of claim 1 , correlating the content fingerprint to a database entry comprises matching at least a portion of the content fingerprint to at least a portion of the database entry.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the first or second search query comprises generating one or more keywords associated with the database entry.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the first or second search query comprises generating one or more events associated with the database entry.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is provided by one selected from the group consisting of a search engine, a content service, and a knowledge graph.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is based on an analysis of at least one selected from the group consisting of:
a website, a forum, a social media outlet, and an application.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is based on at least one selected from the group consisting of: a search frequency, a search recency, and a trend of search.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is based on an update recency.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is based on user selections.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is based on a user's historical usage.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first or second dynamic current result is based on at least another user's selection of the dynamic current result.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a selection of the first or second dynamic current result from a user;
updating a database based on the selection; and
providing the first or second dynamic current result to another user based at least on the selection of the first or second dynamic current result from the user.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
associating a user type with a user of the first and/or second device;
receiving the first or second dynamic current result based on the user type.

17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a safety rating of the first or second dynamic current result; and
providing the first or second dynamic current result if the safety rating is below a safety threshold.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that a user opts to be exposed to the provided first or second dynamic current result during output of a currently active content; and
updating a database based on the determination.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the updated database provides a subsequent dynamic current result based on a subsequent query.

20. A system comprising:
a memory with instructions;
a processor, coupled to the memory, configured to:
receive a content fingerprint for a currently active content on a first device;
correlate the content fingerprint to a database entry in a known content database;
generate a first search query based on the database entry;
receive a first dynamic current result based on the generated first search query;
provide the first dynamic current result on a second device;
generate a second search query, and receive a second dynamic current result that is provided to the second device that is different from the first dynamic current in response to the currently active content being presented on the first device a second time;
provide, based on an update frequency threshold, a given content as the first dynamic current result or the second dynamic current result based on when an amount of times the given content or a content host that is communicatively coupled to the processor is updated within a time period exceeds the update frequency threshold.

21. A non-transitory computer readable medium that includes instructions that, when executed by a computer, performs the method of:
receiving, at a processor, a content fingerprint for a currently active content on a first device;
correlating, at the processor, the content fingerprint to a database entry in a known content database;
generating, at the processor, a first search query based on the database entry;
receiving, at the processor, a first dynamic current result based on the generated first search query;
providing, by the processor, the first dynamic current result on a second device;
generating, at the processor, a second search query and receiving, at the processor, a second dynamic current result that is provided to the second device that is different from the first dynamic current result in response to the currently active content being presented on the first device a second time; and
providing, based on an update frequency threshold, a given content as the first dynamic current result or the second dynamic current result based on when an amount of times the given content or a content host that is communicatively coupled to the processor is updated within a time period exceeds the update frequency threshold.

Assignees

• Google Inc
• Google Llc

Inventors

• Poiesz Benjamin David
• Abramson Andrew

Classifications

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F16/583

  using metadata automatically derived from the content · CPC title

• G06F16/40 Primary

  of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data (retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70) · CPC title

• G06F17/3053

  Physics · mapped topic