Associating Interactive Notes with Program Content
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorSapan Purohit
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Abstract
A method for allowing a user to interactively take notes while watching program content, the method including the operations of: receiving, at a content receiver, an indication from a remote device, the indication associated with initiation of a note; in response to the indication, providing an input field for a user to input a note; associating the note with the program content; and storing the note in a storage medium along with the association of the note and the program content.
Claims20
A method for allowing a user to interactively take notes while watching program content, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a content receiver, an indication from a remote device, the indication associated with initiation of a note;
- in response to the indication, providing an input field for a user to input a note;
- associating the note with the program content;
- and
- storing the note in a storage medium along with the association of the note and the program content.
A system for taking interactive notes during a television program, comprising:
- a set-top box, comprising:
- a processing unit;
- a storage unit operatively connected to the processing unit;
- and
- a first communications component operatively connected to the processing unit;
- and
- a remote device, comprising:
- at least one input operative to generate an indication that a user wishes to enter a note;
- at least a second input operative to permit a user to input the note;
- a second communications component operatively connected to the at least one input and at least second input, further operative to transmit the indication and the note to the first communications component;
- wherein
- the set-top box is configured to receive and process the indication from the remote device, and further configured to receive the note from the remote device.
A method for processing a user-created note, comprising:
- receiving the note during display of program content;
- determining a start time and end time of a segment of the program content;
- associating the note with the only the segment of the program content;
- storing the note;
- and
- displaying the note during playback of the segment of the program content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.