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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2017
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen A. Sposato, Lafayette, CA (US);

Orestis Manthoulis, Sausalito, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/47815 (2013.01); H04L 65/4023 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01);
Abstract

A set-top box device includes a network interface module and a client interface module. The network interface module is configured to receive interactive content instructions and an interactive content notification over an Internet protocol data connection, and to receive an associated on-demand content video stream from a television service provider. The network interface module is also configured to connect to a website containing product information for a product associated with the on-demand content video stream. The client interface module is configured to output the on-demand content video stream, to output the interactive content notification concurrently with the on-demand content video stream in response to outputting a portion of the on-demand content video stream and based on the interactive content instructions, and to output the website currently with the on-demand content video stream in response to a selection of the interactive content notification.


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