Non-television experience triggers
AssigneeRoku, Inc.
InventorSamir Tiongson SAXENA
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing content outside the confides of a television so as to enhance user experience of the content. An example media device embodiment operates according to a method that includes receiving a data stream containing content and at least one non-TV experience trigger; causing the content to be played on the TV; and providing the non-TV experience trigger to at least one appropriate accessory device in a manner synchronous with playing the content on the TV, to thereby extend playback of the content beyond the TV.
Claims20
A media device, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to:
- cause a content of a data stream to be played on a television (TV);
- identify at least one appropriate accessory device, wherein the TV and the media device are communicatively coupled to the at least one appropriate accessory device via a network;
- and
- transmit at least one non-TV experience trigger of the data stream to the at least one appropriate accessory device via the network in a manner synchronous with playing the content on the TV based on (1) a length of time the network will take to deliver the at least one non-TV experience trigger to the at least one appropriate accessory device based on a characterization of the network and (2) a length of time that the at least one appropriate accessory device will take to execute the at least one non-TV experience trigger, to thereby extend playback of the content beyond the TV.
A method to be performed by a media device for extending playback of content beyond a television (TV), the method comprising:
- causing, by at least one computer processor, content of a data stream to be played on the TV;
- identifying at least one appropriate accessory device, wherein the TV and the media device are communicatively coupled to the at least one appropriate accessory device via a network;
- and
- transmitting at least one non-TV experience trigger of the data stream to the at least one appropriate accessory device via the network in a manner synchronous with playing the content on the TV based on (1) a length of time the network will take to deliver the at least one non-TV experience trigger to the at least one appropriate accessory device based on a characterization of the network and (2) a length of time that the at least one appropriate accessory device will take to execute the at least one non-TV experience trigger, to thereby extend the playback of the content beyond the TV.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device in a media device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations to extend playback of content beyond a television (TV), the operations comprising:
- causing a content of a data stream to be played on the TV;
- identifying at least one appropriate accessory device, wherein the TV and the media device are communicatively coupled to the at least one appropriate accessory device via a network;
- and
- transmitting at least one non-TV experience trigger of the data stream to the at least one appropriate accessory device via the network in a manner synchronous with playing the content on the TV based on (1) a length of time the network will take to deliver the at least one non-TV experience trigger to the at least one appropriate accessory device based on a characterization of the network and (2) a length of time that the at least one appropriate accessory device will take to execute the at least one non-TV experience trigger, to thereby extend the playback of the content beyond the TV.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.