US 8,769,600 B2Granted

Highlight management for fantasy gaming

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorsDonald H. Relyea, Brian F. Roberts, Heath Stallings

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Abstract

An exemplary system stores data representative of a plurality of media content items related to a plurality of sporting events and data representative of information about a plurality of players involved in the plurality of sporting events, the information including an indication of one or more players of interest to a user that are included in the plurality of players, identifies a portion of a media content item as associated with an event related to one of the sporting events, determines an identity of a player involved in the event, generates metadata representative of the identity of the player involved in the event, determines, based on the metadata, that the player involved in the event is included in the one or more players of interest, and generates and sends a highlight message including the identified portion of the media content item to a user device associated with the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a storage medium that stores data representative of
a plurality of media content items associated with a plurality of sporting events,
information about a plurality of players involved in the plurality of sporting events, the information including an indication of one or more players of interest to a user that are included in the plurality of players, and
event information identifying an event related to one of the sporting events and a portion of a media content item included in the plurality of media content items as associated with the event;
a feature extractor coupled to the storage medium and that
determines an identity of a player involved in the event, and
generates metadata for the identified portion of the media content item, the metadata representative of the identity of the player involved in the event;
and
a manager coupled to the storage medium and the feature extractor, and that
determines, based on the metadata, that the player involved in the event is included in the one or more players of interest, and
generates a highlight message including an indication of highlight media, the highlight media including the identified portion of the media content item, wherein the highlight message causes a user device associated with the user to automatically begin playback of the identified portion of the media content item without the user requesting the playback to begin.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/011,333Filed 27 Aug 2013 · continuation
Priority: 21 Sep 2007
Published: US 2013/0344959 A126 Dec 2013
Granted: 1 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A63F 13/537
Involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser…:…
A63F 13/00
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or
A63F 13/213
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells
A63F 13/798
Involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories: for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for…

Family

Application11/859,356Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Sep 2007
US 2013/0344959 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Dec 2013
US 8,522,300 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2009/0082110 A1Published application
US 8,769,600 B2This patent

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