US 9,762,967 B2Granted

System and method for presenting content with time based metadata

AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC

InventorsDouglas Clarke, Michael Dalrymple, Edward Lee Elliott, John Fox, Mark Johnson, Darren Lepke, Thomas Purnell-Fisher, Herve Utheza

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Abstract

Disclosed herein is a system and method for rendering media related content and web services. According to one or more embodiments, media content is rendered from a source. In one or more segments of the media source, at least one of an object, person or location is identified and additional information, relevant content or services about the person, object or location are displayed or made accessible while or after the media content is being rendered, on one or more devices and/or on one or more paired devices.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving media content;
causing playback of at least a portion of the media content;
determining, based on the playback of at least the portion of the media content, an audio fingerprint;
transmitting a request for metadata, wherein the request comprises the determined audio fingerprint;
receiving, in response to the request, time-based metadata associated with the media content, wherein the time-based metadata comprises a plurality of time stamps that are triggerable at different instances of a timeline of the media content, and wherein one or more time stamps of the plurality of time stamps are associated with corresponding metadata content;
receiving, based on the playback of the at least the portion of the media content, an indication of occurrence of one or more events in the timeline of the media content;
and
triggering, based on the indication of occurrence of the one or more events, a sequence of time stamps of the plurality of time stamps, wherein the triggered sequence of time stamps is synchronized with the occurrence of the one or more events in the timeline of the media content;
wherein triggering the sequence of time stamps causes determining associated information for one or more time stamps of the sequence of time stamps, and rendering at least a portion of the metadata content based on the associated information;
and
wherein the associated information for one or more of the time stamps of the sequence of time stamps comprises a link to the portion of the metadata content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/523,829Filed 14 Jun 2012 · us provisional application
Priority: 14 Jun 2011
Published: US 2013/0014155 A110 Jan 2013
Granted: 12 Sep 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04N 21/4722
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G06F 16/433
Query formulation: using audio data
G06F 16/48
Of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not…
G11B 27/105
Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers: of operating discs