Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identification and presentation of internet-accessible content associated with currently playing television programs
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Application No.: US15727394Application Date: 2017-10-06
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Publication No.: US10237612B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Michael Verrilli , Nathan Leslie Sandland
- Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/27
- IPC: G06F17/27 ; H04N21/81 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/482 ; H04N21/4782

Abstract:
Features of various implementations are used to enable identifying and presenting, in real time, Internet-accessible and/or Internet-based functionality, content and/or services associated with a particular television program concurrently playing on a television or display, as a part of an interactive television suite of technologies. In some implementations, the process of identifying Internet-accessible and/or Internet-based functionality, content and/or services associated with a particular television program is enabled to reduce communication between a primary set-top box and a supplemental set-top box and/or television integrated device, thereby reducing the need for one or more provider specific APIs. For example, one aspect of the disclosure is a computer-implemented method of identifying a media program by capturing display data from the media program, and extracting information from the display data in response to determining that the display data includes a program information overlay associated with the media program.
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