Intel Corporation

Claudio J Ochoa

Stanley T Mo

Victor Szilagyi

Gustavo D Domingo Yaguez

Carlos Carrizo

Robert Staudinger

Elliot Smith

Lucas Massuh

Shannon R Schroeder

Elliott Smith

Methods and systems may involve receiving metadata associated with an activity of a user with respect to a first device, and capturing discovery content from one or more media sources based on the metadata. In addition, the discovery content and the metadata may be presented to the user via a second device.

Use of real-time metadata to capture and display discovery content

Methods and systems may involve storing device-specific user preference data to a local device and receiving a real-time request from a remote device. One or more user coefficients may be used to filter the device-specific user preference data in response to the request. In one example, the user preference data includes keyword data and the filtered keyword data is used to discover and present information to the user via the remote device.

Collection and management of precision user preference data

Methods and systems may involve identifying metadata associated with a local application, and using an operating system-independent chat protocol to pass the metadata to a remote application. The metadata may include information to be presented to a user of a device executing the remote application, information to be used to locate more information for presentation to the user of the other device, information to be used to coordinate operation of multiple devices, and so forth. In one example, the metadata is passed using a protocol such as XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol).

Metadata driven collaboration between applications and web services

Techniques and configurations for streaming metadata between devices are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, streaming textual data, for example subtitles or closed caption data, are provided from a consumer television or set top box (STB) platform to a tablet computer platform. XMPP and BOSH are used as infrastructural components to help establish the client/server connection between the platforms. These components also maintain this connection and support real-time communications and transfer of data between the platforms. In an example embodiment, an application on the primary platform has a string of metadata which is communicated to a client application on a second platform. For example, client application may be a smart phone app in the form of an HTML5 app running on browser. The system may stream and control bi-directionally. In this architecture an XMPP-implementing JavaScript library allows XMPP client interaction through an XML stanza.

Method and apparatus for streaming metadata between devices using JavaScript and HTML5

Methods and systems may involve identifying source content associated with an activity of a user with respect to a first media source. Discovery content may be captured from one or more additional media sources based on the source content, wherein the discovery content may be presented to the user if at least a portion of the discovery content is tangential to the source content.

Use of discovery to understand user behavior, interests and preferences

In one example embodiment, a program navigation system involves a television (TV) set (or other audio/visual presentation device) and a mobile device. While the TV set is playing an audio/visual program, a keyword recognition module may extract keywords from textual data associated with the program. The textual data may include textual words that match words spoken in the program. Time markers for the keywords may also be saved. A time marker may indicate a play time within the program for the corresponding keyword. The TV set may automatically transmit the keywords to the mobile device, and the mobile device may automatically display the keywords in a user interface. A user may then select one of the keywords. In response, the mobile device may automatically cause the TV set to jump to a portion of the program containing the selected keyword. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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Claudio J Ochoa