Tracking time-based selection of search results
AssigneeSpot411 Technologies, Inc.
InventorAjay Shah
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Where multiple client devices are synchronized to multiple, asynchronous instances of a time-based media presentation such as live and time-shifted views of a television broadcast, interactive content can be delivered to each one of the various devices at a particular time (or “time offset”) within the presentation independent of when each instance of the time-based media presentation is viewed.
Claims13
A method comprising:
- receiving search behavior data from a plurality of tracked devices, wherein the plurality of tracked devices are synchronized to a first presentation of time-based media based upon an audio component of the first presentation and wherein the search behavior data includes search result selections;
- identifying a most popular one of the search result selections at a time offset within the first presentation of the time-based media;
- synchronizing a device with a second presentation of the time-based media;
- and
- transmitting a representation of the most popular one of the search results to the device synchronized to the time offset within the second presentation of the time-based media.
A computer program product for sharing search activity, the computer program product comprising computer executable code embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:
- receiving search behavior data from a plurality of tracked devices, wherein the plurality of tracked devices are synchronized to a first presentation of time-based media based upon an audio component of the first presentation and wherein the search behavior data includes search result selections;
- identifying a most popular one of the search result selections at a time offset within the first presentation of the time-based media;
- synchronizing a device with a second presentation of the time-based media;
- and
- transmitting a representation of the most popular one of the search results to the device synchronized to the time offset within the second presentation of the time-based media.
A server comprising:
- a data network interface configured to provide a communicating relationship with a data network;
- a database;
- and
- a processor configured to receive search behavior data from a plurality of tracked devices through the data network interface, wherein the plurality of tracked devices are synchronized to a first presentation of time-based media based upon an audio component of the first presentation and wherein the search behavior data includes search result selections, the processor further configured to identify a most popular one of the search result selections at a time offset within the first presentation of the time-based media and to store the most popular one of the search result selections in the database, and the processor further configured to synchronize a device with a second presentation of the time-based media and to transmit a representation of the most popular one of the search results to the device synchronized to the time offset within the second presentation of the time-based media.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.