Automated user-responsive video content

A content delivery appliance comprising:

• a network interface configured to receive video content from a content network, the video content temporally associated with content-of-interest (COI) identifiers, such that each COI identifier is defined as actively relevant during a respective playback time window of the video content, each COI identifier further associated with respective response data;
• a playback subsystem including a playback interface configured to couple with a playback device, the playback subsystem to output the video content to a user via the playback device;
• a sensor interface configured to couple with one or more sensors and to monitor the one or more sensors during outputting of the video content by the playback subsystem;
• an automated responder subsystem coupled with the sensor interface to detect receipt of dynamic input from the user via the one or more sensors at a detection time, the automated responder subsystem configured to:
• identify a set of presently active COI identifiers as those of the COI identifiers defined as actively relevant during respective playback time windows that intersect with the detection time;
• analyze the dynamic input according to the set of presently active COI identifiers automatically to generate a COI query corresponding to at least one of the set of presently active COI identifiers;
• generate a query response automatically responsive to the COI query based on the respective response data of the at least one of the set of presently active COI identifiers;
• and
• direct the playback subsystem to output the query response to the user via the playback device as a response to the detecting.

A system for automated user-responsive video content delivery, the system comprising:

• a set of processors;
• a processor-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed, cause the set of processors to perform steps comprising:
• outputting video content to a user via a playback device, the video content temporally associated with content-of-interest (COI) identifiers, such that each COI identifier is defined as actively relevant during a respective playback time window of the video content, each COI identifier further associated with respective response data;
• detecting receipt of dynamic input from the user at a detection time by monitoring a sensor system during the outputting;
• identifying a set of presently active COI identifiers as those of the COI identifiers defined as actively relevant during respective playback time windows that intersect with the detection time;
• analyzing the dynamic input according to the set of presently active COI identifiers automatically to generate a COI query corresponding to at least one of the set of presently active COI identifiers;
• generating a query response automatically responsive to the COI query based on the respective response data of the at least one of the set of presently active COI identifiers;
• and
• outputting the query response to the user via the playback device as responsive to the detecting.