System and Method for Selecting and Viewing Broadcast Content Based on Syndication Streams
AssigneeGeneral Instrument Corporation
InventorCarlton J. Sparrell
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Abstract
A system and a method for alerting a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) viewer as to content that meets a predefined criteria of the viewer embedded within a real-time internet web feed and allowing the viewer to elect to view and/or record detected content that meets such criteria while viewing other content.
Claims20
A method for providing an alert indicating the detection of content of interest in a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) system, and presenting a viewer with the option to view and/or record the other content of interest while viewing first content, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving an internet web feed at an input to the DVR system, the web feed containing updated syndication information;
- monitoring the internet web feed for broadcast content of interest;
- providing an alert to the viewer if broadcast content of interest is detected in the monitoring step, the alert provided to the viewer concurrently with the first content.
A digital video recorder (DVR) system for alerting a viewer as to content of interest embedded within a real-time internet web feed and allowing the viewer to view other content, the system comprising:
- an input for receiving first broadcast content;
- an input for receiving a real-time internet web feed, the web feed containing information;
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- an information update processor module responsive to an interactive application software program therein, wherein the processor module:
- monitors the real-time internet web feed for broadcast content determined by the interactive application to match a predefined criteria of the viewer;
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- provides an alert to the viewer if broadcast content that meets the predefined criteria is detected in the monitoring step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.