Enhanced content consumption
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsKevin Gammill, Stacey Law, Jeff Tucker, Sean Kollenkark
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Abstract
Enhanced content consumption is provided by establishing a pairing between two computing devices, wherein at least one of the two computing devices provides a primary consumption experience of a digital content item, so that a secondary consumption experience can be provided via operation of at least one of the two computing devices. The method further comprises presenting, using at least one of the two computing devices, the digital content item for consumption by a user. The method further comprises performing one or more supplemental consumption functions with the other of the two computing devices.
Claims20
A method of enhancing consumption of digital content items using two or more computing devices, the method comprising:
- establishing a pairing between two computing devices including a first computing device and a second computing device, wherein at least one of the two computing devices provides a primary consumption experience of a digital content item, so that a secondary consumption experience can be provided via operation of at least one of the two computing devices;
- presenting, using at least the first computing device, the digital content item for consumption by a user;
- determining, using at least the first computing device, a secondary consumption experience that has a configuration that is selected from a plurality of secondary consumption experience configurations based on capabilities of the second computing device;
- sending, to the second computing device, the secondary consumption experience;
- and
- performing one or more supplemental consumption functions with the second computing device based on the capabilities of the second computing device.
A computing system for enhancing consumption of digital content items, comprising:
- a pairing engine configured to establish a pairing between two or more computing devices;
- a presentation engine configured to present, using at least one of the two computing devices, a digital content item;
- a supplemental consumption function engine configured to perform one or more supplemental consumption functions that are implemented based on capabilities learned via a pairing established via the pairing engine;
- a processor configured to execute instructions;
- and
- a data-holding subsystem comprising instructions executable by the processor to:
- establish, via the pairing engine, a pairing between two computing devices including a first computing device and a second computing device, wherein at least one of the two computing devices provides a primary consumption experience of a digital content item, and wherein establishing the pairing includes at least the first computing device learning capabilities of the second computing device so that a secondary consumption experience can be provided via operation of at least one of the two computing devices;
- present, via the presentation engine, the digital content item for consumption by a user;
- send a secondary consumption experience to the second computing device, the secondary consumption experience having a configuration that is selected from a plurality of configurations based on capabilities of the second computing device;
- and
- perform, via the supplemental consumption function engine, one or more supplemental consumption functions with the second computing device to establish the secondary consumption experience, wherein the one or more supplemental consumption functions are implemented based on capabilities that have been learned during the pairing of the two computing devices.
On a first computing device, a method of enhancing consumption of a digital content item, the method comprising:
- providing a primary consumption experience of a digital content item including presentation of the digital content item;
- establishing a pairing between the first computing device and a second computing device via a communication protocol;
- learning, via the pairing, capabilities of the second computing device;
- determining a secondary consumption experience for the digital content item having a level of fidelity selected from a plurality of levels of fidelity based on the capabilities of the second computing device learned via the pairing;
- and
- sending the secondary consumption experience to the second computing device via the communication protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.