Back to results
US 8,819,732 B2Granted
System and method in a television system for providing information associated with a user-selected person in a television program
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsJeyhan Karaoguz, Nambirajan Seshadri
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system and method in a television system for providing information associated with a user-selected person in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
Claims33
A method, in a television system, for responding to user selection of an object in television programming, the method comprising:
- by the television system:
- determining an identity of a user-selected object in a television program being presented to a user on a first display device, where the user-selected object corresponds to a selected person;
- determining, based at least in part on the determined object identity, one or more actions to perform related to the selected person, the one or more actions comprising displaying, on a second display device, a form of communication with which to communicate with the selected person or an associate of the selected person;
- wherein the form of communication comprises email, fax, live chat, instant messaging, telephone call, or video phone call;
- and
- performing the determined one or more actions.
3 more elements
A television system for responding to user selection of an object in television programming, the television system comprising:
- at least one processor operable to, at least:
- determine an identity of a user-selected object in a television program being presented to a user, where the user-selected object corresponds to a selected person;
- determine, based at least in part on the determined object identity, one or more actions to perform associated with the selected person, the one or more actions comprising displaying, on a second display device, a form of communication with which to communicate with the selected person or an associate of the selected person, while continuing to present the television program to the user;
- wherein the form of communication comprises email, fax, live chat, instant messaging, telephone call, or video phone call;
- and
- perform the determined one or more actions.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.