Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110047568 | TV USER INTERFACE WITH RECOMMENDED CONTENT ENTRY IN FAVORITES MENU - A “recommendation” genus entry is added to the list of other genre in a TV “favorites” menu. Entries in the recommendation genus entry are depicted in a stack and sorted by recommendation strength and channel number. A user can elect to hide the recommendation entry from the favorites menu. | 02-24-2011 |
20120117118 | SEARCH AND DEEP LINKING IN INTERNET-ENABLED TV - An Internet-enabled TV that provides virtual channels to online services that source content responds to a viewer search query by passing the query only to services designated as “searchable” and that thus possess a search application programming interface (API) to return links directly to the content and not just to the hosting services. | 05-10-2012 |
20120136934 | DEVICE, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR SHARING DEEP LINKS OVER SOCIAL NETWORK - An audio video display device (AVDD) includes a display and a processor controlling the display to present an Internet-sourced program. Additionally, the processor causes the display to present a “share” selector element selectable by a user to cause a link associated with the program to automatically be sent to a friend device over a social networking site. | 05-31-2012 |
20120137329 | ENHANCED INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICE FOR VIEWED PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF INTERNET TV DEVICE USING MOBILE DEVICE - The user of an Internet TV device can control the Internet TV device using a mobile device such as a smart phone. The smart phone also obtains program information from the Internet TV device and sends the information to a server as a search term, presenting supplemental program information received from the server on the display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of the Internet TV device. The mobile device can also grab a link related to the program from the Internet TV device and use that link as a recommendation to friends on social networking sites. | 05-31-2012 |
20120229587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIEWING ROOM SERVICES FOR NETWORK BASED CONTENT - According to one embodiment of the invention, the invention relates to an electronic device that features a display unit, a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is adapted to store a plurality of widgets. Coupled to the storage unit, the processor is adapted to control downloading of the plurality of widgets upon gaining access as a member to a viewing room, and thereafter, to control operations of the plurality of widgets in providing interactive communications with other members of the viewing room as content is being played back on the display unit. | 09-13-2012 |
20130041662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SERVICES ON A DEVICE USING VOICE DATA - A device and method to control applications using voice data. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting voice data from a user, converting the voice data to text data, matching the text data to an identifier the identifier associated with a list of identifiers for controlling operation of the application, and controlling the application based on the identifier matched with the text data. In another embodiment, voice data may be received from a control device. | 02-14-2013 |
20130091522 | METHOD TO DISPLAY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SCREEN - The present invention is directed toward a system and method for simultaneously displaying one or more social media content items together with the display of programming content, such as a television show. Specifically, the present invention provides a system and method by which contemporary and/or time-shifted social media commentary, pertaining to broadcast programming content, may be displayed concurrently with the displayed programming content. | 04-11-2013 |
20130111025 | CLIENT APPLICATION AND RESOURCE ARBITRATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130145248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING COMMENTS WITH MEDIA - A system and methods are provided for presenting a comment associated with presentation of media. In one embodiment, a method includes outputting media for display, and detecting a comment associated with the media based on a request for comments associated with the media, the request including identification of at least one user associated with a social network. The method may further include detecting a time code associated with the comment and outputting a graphical representation of the comment with presentation of the media based on the time code. | 06-06-2013 |
20130265501 | REMOTE TOUCH GESTURES - A remote control (RC) has a touch pad and user touches on the pad are correlated to pad positions. The positions are sent to a remote display device and mapped to corresponding locations on the display of the display device as though the user were touching the display of the display device, not the touch pad of the RC. | 10-10-2013 |
20130283314 | ENHANCED INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICE FOR VIEWED PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF INTERNET TV DEVICE USING MOBILE DEVICE - The user of an Internet TV device can control the Internet TV device using a mobile device such as a smart phone. The smart phone also obtains program information from the Internet TV device and sends the information to a server as a search term, presenting supplemental program information received from the server on the display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of the Internet TV device. The mobile device can also grab a link related to the program from the Internet TV device and use that link as a recommendation to friends on social networking sites. | 10-24-2013 |
20140019836 | METHODS FOR HANDLING URLS TO TRIGGER FUNCTIONALITIES - A method of handling Internet links includes providing a link associated with a uniform resource locator (“URL”) including a scheme name that references an application, and a handler-directive that references a functionality to be performed by the application. The link can be provided in an internet browser on a display screen of an electronic device. The method further includes launching the application referenced by the URL in response to a user selecting the URL. The launched application includes a URL handler, which receives the URL and breaks up the URL to separate the handler-directive. The method further includes determining whether the handler-directive is supported in the URL handler. The functionality referenced by the handler-directive is then performed by the application. | 01-16-2014 |
20140075548 | GESTURE- AND EXPRESSION-BASED AUTHENTICATION - A user can define a gesture-based input mode with respective input value to establish an authentication protocol to unlock a computer or govern other computer behavior. As an alternative or in addition, the user can define a second input mode based on face recognition plus IR sensing satisfying a threshold to ensure a live person is being imaged for authentication, and/or face recognition plus a particular facial expression such as a smile and wink. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089954 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING AUDIO AND/OR IMAGES PRESENTED TO A USER WITH FACIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND EXPRESSIONS OF THE USER - A computer includes at least one processor and at least one computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor. The medium bears instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive at least one image of at least one viewer of a display on which content is presented. The instructions also cause the processor to generate a signal representative of at least one expression of the viewer made at or around the time the content was presented based on the image of the viewer, and also to receive metadata identifying the content. The instructions then cause the processor to associate the metadata identifying the content with the at least one expression of the viewer. | 03-27-2014 |
20140104440 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO STREAMING - An apparatus and method are provided for a client application to provide a video stream as well as data regarding the video stream to an output device, where the data is generated from a process performed at a layer lower than the client application layer. By this, multiple client applications can simultaneously utilize the data generated by the lower-level process while at least one client application can effect streaming of the video stream to an output device. | 04-17-2014 |