US 11,540,007 B2Granted

Cross-device interaction

AssigneeDigital Turbine, Inc.

InventorsBrandon Brent Ayers, Joel E. Frazier, Harris David Thurmond

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Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for cross-device interaction, the method comprising: intercepting a triggering event by a mobile client application program; employing a low energy communication monitoring service adapted for searching at least one universally unique identifier advertised by a low energy communication advertisement service configured to enable retrieval of a content identifier associated with content received from a server and being displayed by a television client application program, retrieving using the at least one universally unique identifier the content identifier, and providing the content identifier to the mobile client application program; and, responsive to receiving notice on intercepting a user interaction event by a user interaction event listener, presenting by the mobile client application program an information item retrieved using the content identifier provided.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for cross-device interaction, the method comprising:

intercepting a triggering event by a mobile client application program residing on a mobile device;
in response to said intercepted triggering event, initiating by the mobile client application program an interaction with content displayed on a television device by employing a low energy communication monitoring service residing on the mobile device and adapted for:
searching at least one universally unique identifier advertised through low energy communication transmission, transmitted by a low energy communication advertisement service residing on the television device, said at least one universally unique identifier being configured to enable the low energy communication monitoring service retrieval of a content identifier associated with content concurrently being displayed on the television device by a television client application program residing on the television device, wherein said displayed content is received by the television device from a server;
retrieving, using said at least one universally unique identifier, the content identifier by utilizing an application programming interface of low energy communication;
and
providing the content identifier to the mobile client application program;
and,
responsive to the mobile client application program receiving notice on the mobile device intercepting a user interaction event by a user interaction event listener enabled on the mobile device, presenting by the mobile client application program to a user of the mobile device an information item retrieved using the content identifier provided.

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A method for cross-device interaction, the method comprising:

requesting, by a television client application program residing on a television device, receipt of content from a server;
and
responsive to the television client application program receiving from the server the content and displaying thereof on the television device, initiating by the television client application program an interaction of a mobile client application program residing on a mobile device with the content displayed on the television device by employing a low energy communication advertisement service residing on the television device and adapted for:
concurrently with said displaying of said content on said television device, advertising at least one universally unique identifier through low energy communication transmission, said at least one universally unique identifier configured to enable a low energy communication monitoring service residing on the mobile device retrieval of a content identifier associated with said content concurrently displayed on the television device;
wherein the low energy communication monitoring service residing on a the mobile device being configured to retrieve, using said at least one universally unique identifier, the content identifier by utilizing an application programming interface of low energy communication and provide the content identifier to the mobile client application program residing on the mobile device, wherein the mobile client application program being configured to present to a user of the mobile device responsive to the mobile client application program receiving notice on the mobile device intercepting by a user interaction event listener enabled on the mobile device a user interaction event, an information item retrieved using the content identifier provided.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/088,777Filed 4 Nov 2020
Published: US 2022/0141528 A15 May 2022
Granted: 27 Dec 2022
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Classification5 codes

H04N 21/43637
Adapting the video stream to a specific local network, e.g. a Bluetooth® network: involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth®, RF or wireless…
H04N 21/4126
Peripherals receiving signals from specially adapted client devices: the peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04N
Pictorial communication