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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:
Jun. 28, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Source Digital, Inc., Barto, PA (US);

Inventors:

Patrick Clay Greene, Van Nuys, CA (US);

Henry Lawrence Frecon, Barto, PA (US);

Michael Eric Phillips, Melrose, MA (US);

Assignee:

Source Digital, Inc., Boyertown, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/4725 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/43 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04N 21/43074 (2020.08); H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/4524 (2013.01); H04N 21/4725 (2013.01);
Abstract

Curating ancillary data to be presented to audience members of a visual program content may include a) creating a timeline rule that correlates ancillary data objects to respective visual program content features, the visual program content features correlated to respective instances on a timeline of the visual program content, b) creating an environmental rule to correlate the ancillary data objects to respective environmental features of an audience member; and c) indicating that the ancillary data objects are to be presented to the audience member when both the timeline rule and the environmental rule are met such that the ancillary data objects may be presented to the audience member when both a) the respective ones of the visual program content features appear in the visual program content during playback by the audience member and b) the respective environmental features are present.


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