Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identification and presentation of internet-accessible content associated with currently playing television programs
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Application No.: US13831166Application Date: 2013-03-14
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Publication No.: US09788055B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Michael Verrilli , Nathan Leslie Sandland
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Main IPC: H04N21/4782
- IPC: H04N21/4782 ; H04N21/442 ; G06F17/27 ; H04N21/482 ; H04N21/81

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 text from the display data in response to determining that the display data includes the text overlay, wherein the extracted text is associated with the media program.
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