Arris Enterprises LLC

Google Inc.

General Instrument Corporation

Arris Technology, Inc.

Hiren M Mandalia

Narayanan Venkitaraman

Santosh S Basapur

Shirley A Chaysinh

Young S Lee

Ashley B Novak

Paul C Davis

Faisal Ishtiaq

Loren J Rittle

Alfonso Martinez Smith

Crysta J Metcalf

Van M Vuong

Anthony J Braskich

Faramak Vakil

Douglas A Kuhlman

Joshua B Hurwitz

Mir Farooq Ali

Dale William Russell

Dragan Boscovic

James R Talley

Krunal S Shah

Isaac G Kulka

Mir F Ali

A system to facilitate AR processing includes receiving captured media from a user device and context information relating to media that is being delivered to a receiving device. The system may use the media being delivered with the captured media to generate one or more virtual objects. The user device may augment a user's view of reality that is reflected in the captured media by overlaying or otherwise incorporating the virtual objects in the user's view of reality.

Automated object selection and placement for augmented reality

Segments of plural media expressions of a narrative are defined and linked by metadata enabling substitution of a segment of one medium expression of the narrative for a segment of another medium expression the narrative when requested by a user.

System to generate a mixed media experience

An interactive interface for a computing device enables a user to select the medium of expression in which a segment of a narrative will be presented. The narrative has a plurality of presentable narrative segments, at least one of which is presentable in multiple mutually substitutable mediums of expression. The interface includes a control enabling a user to select a narrative segment class containing segments of a first medium expression. The selected segments are presented in substitution for respective segments of another narrative segment class of a second medium expression.

Interactive method and apparatus for mixed media narrative presentation

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing one or more content items for display to a user of an end-user device. The user provides a comment in relation to a multimedia presentation. Based on this comment, and on content information relating to the multimedia presentation, a set of content items is then selected. This set of elements is provided for display to the user. The user may include any of the displayed content items in his comment.

Information processing

Disclosed is a method of augmenting user-input information that includes associating a first secondary device with primary media content, receiving user-input information input at the first secondary device, and analyzing the user-input information to identify user-content metadata. The method further includes at least one of: receiving primary-content metadata related to the primary media content and deriving primary-content metadata from the primary media content and identifying associations between the user-content metadata and the primary-content metadata.

Method and device for augmenting user-input information related to media content

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying a plurality of presentation elements to a user. A progress bar is displayed. A length of the progress bar is representative of a duration of a multimedia presentation. A communication box is also displayed. The communication box comprises a marker and a communication composed by an originator in relation to a certain point or time period within the multimedia presentation. The progress bar and the communication box are displayed such that the marker is in alignment with a position along the length of the progress bar that corresponds to the point or time period in the multimedia presentation in relation to which the communication was composed. The marker may be moved relative to the progress bar.

Display of presentation elements

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for augmenting a user's multimedia consumption experience. The methods comprise while the user is consuming the multimedia presentation using a first device, that device provides (to one or more remote processors) information that may be used to identify a relevant location. The one or more processors use this information to identify the location and acquire a virtual environment. This virtual environment may be a virtual representation the location. The virtual environment is presented to the user on a second (companion) device. Using the second device, the user may explore the virtual environment and interact with virtual objects therein.

Augmentation of multimedia consumption

While a user views a primary content item (for example, a movie on a television screen), secondary content items are selected and presented to the user, either on the same screen or on a screen of the user's companion device. To choose selections that are relevant to the user's current interests, the selection process considers information beyond the realm of primary and secondary content. Over time, the selection process learns to make more relevant selections by monitoring selection choices made by other systems.

Providing secondary content to accompany a primary content item

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying information relating to a portion of a multimedia presentation. A progress bar is provided and displayed. A length of the progress bar is representative of a duration of the multimedia presentation. A user selects a first and a second point in the multimedia presentation, thereby defining a portion of the presentation. Depending on the selection, one or more communications (e.g., comments, online postings, etc.) may be identified. Each of these communications may have been composed in relation to at least a point of the multimedia presentation that is within the defined portion. Information depending on those identified communications may then be displayed to the user.

A method intercepts correlation instructions related to a plurality of meta-content elements associated with a primary content. The primary content or the meta-content elements may have associated privacy rules. At least one meta-content element of the group is selected as having privacy protected information specified in the privacy rules. A set of meta-content items, of meta-content element, are determined that are subject to a correlation restriction based on evaluation of the privacy rules with respect to each meta-content item contained in the meta-content element, and the privacy rules for the set of meta-content items are enforced. The privacy rule enforcement may involve preventing execution of the correlation instructions, excluding the selected at least one meta-content element from a correlation based on the correlation instructions, excluding the set of meta-content items from a correlation based on the correlation instructions, or restricting access to a correlation result based on the correlation instructions.

Privacy manager for restricting correlation of meta-content having protected information based on privacy rules

A method includes receiving content-association input, including identification of accessed first content and an index position of a second content, and associating the accessed first content with the second content at the index position. Users accessing the second content are provided information related to the first content in response to the access of the second content. The information provided may be a link to the first content, a description of the first content, a portion of the first content, or the entire first content. Another method includes providing a user interface within an application window while the application window displays a first content and providing a second window in response to selection input via the user interface. The second window displays an indexed second content. Input may be received via the second window to create an association of the first content with the second content at an index position.

System and method for associating online content to a second indexed content

Generating a sequential semantic representation and a resulting content item sequence or presentation is disclosed. A set of nodes and paths among the nodes are determined. Each node includes a corresponding a set of criteria. The paths define a relationship among the plurality of nodes. Transitional operators that define additional criteria for the nodes, are associated with the paths. Content items that include characteristics that are determined to match the corresponding set of criteria for at least one of the nodes are retrieved.

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