Podop, Inc.

Steven Andrew Soderbergh

Adrian Sack

Derek H B Chung

Matthew Keesan

Andrew L Silver

Daniel J Siegel

Cynthia P Brelis

Caroline S Welch

Kristin Marie Loeb

Edward James Solomon

Ronny Heinrich Grunwald

Nicolas Dedual

Jose Raul Castillo

An interactive narrative presentation includes a plurality of narrative segments, with a variety of available media content consumer selectable paths or directions, typically specified by a director or editor. The content consumer can select a path or path segment at each of a number of points, e.g., decision points, in the narrative presentation via user interface elements or narrative prompts, providing the consumer the opportunity to follow a storyline they find interesting. Each consumer follows a 'personalized' path through the narrative. The narrative prompts can include images from subsequent segments, may be generated to stylistically resemble the underlying narrative presentation, may be animated to move with or with respect to the underlying narrative presentation, and, or may be presented in overlaid with a presentation of the underlying narrative while the underlying narrative continues play.

User interface elements for content selection in media narrative presentation

A narrative includes a number of serially connected narrative segments combined by a director or editor in a defined sequence to tell a story. Quite frequently a number of different narrative segments are available to the director or editor. A content delivery editor provides editors and directors with the ability to augment a standard with additional narrative segments that provide alternate perspectives, view, or insights to the narrative consumer. Such provides the ability to convey the same narrative to the narrative consumer using a number of plots, storylines, or perspectives. Branch points in the narrative, defined by the editor or director, provide the narrative consumer the opportunity to follow a storyline they find interesting. Each narrative consumer follows a 'personalized' path through the narrative. Through social media, narrative consumers are able to discuss the narrative path with other narrative consumers who have taken a different path through the narrative.

Method, apparatus and article for delivering media content via a user-selectable narrative presentation

Growing community of inventors

New York, NY, United States of America

Steven Andrew Soderbergh