Set-Top Box with Interactive Features and System and Method for Use of Same

A set-top box comprising:

• a housing securing a signal input, a signal output, a processor, memory, storage, and transceiver therein;
• a busing architecture communicatively interconnecting the signal input, the signal output, the processor, the memory, the storage, and the transceiver therein;
• the signal input configured to receive a source signal from an external source;
• the signal output configured to forward a fully tuned signal to a display;
• and
• the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
• receive interactive data via the transceiver, the interactive data being, relative to the set-top box, information about display-based interactions with the set-top box,
• receive environmental data via the transceiver, the environmental data being, relative to the set-top box, information about an amenity, the amenity being one of a plurality of amenities on a residential property co-located with the set-top box,
• receive smart device data via the transceiver, the smart device data being information from a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device interacting with the set-top box,
• store set-top box data, the set-top box data including the interactive data, the environmental data, and the smart device data,
• render a map view of the property based on obtained map data, the map view including an interactive graphical representation of the residential property, the plurality of amenities, and the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device,
• annotate the interactive graphical representation of the residential property with at least a portion of the set-top box data,
• send the annotated interactive graphical representation of the residential property to the display, and
• receive via the transmitter an interactive instruction relative to the annotated interactive graphical representation of the residential property.

A set-top box comprising:

• a housing securing a signal input, a signal output, a processor, memory, storage, and transceiver therein;
• a busing architecture communicatively interconnecting the television input, the television output, the processor, the memory, the storage, and the transceiver therein;
• the signal input configured to receive a source signal from an external source;
• the signal output configured to forward a fully tuned signal to a display;
• and
• the memory accessible to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
• receive interactive data via the transceiver, the interactive data being, relative to the set-top box, information about display-based interactions with the set-top box,
• receive environmental data via the transceiver, the environmental data being, relative to the set-top box, information about an amenity, the amenity being one of a plurality of amenities on a residential property co-located with the set-top box,
• receive smart device data via the transceiver, the smart device data being information from a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device interacting with the set-top box,
• store set-top box data, the set-top box data including the interactive data, the environmental data, and the smart device data,
• send the set-top box data to a server,
• receive from the server a map view of the property based on obtained map data, the map view including an interactive graphical representation of the residential property, the plurality of amenities, and the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device, the interactive graphical representation of the residential property being annotated with at least a portion of the set-top box data,
• send the annotated interactive graphical representation of the residential property to the display, and
• receive via the transmitter an interactive instruction relative to the annotated interactive graphical representation of the residential property.