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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:
Apr. 04, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Inventors:

Keith Comito, Seaford, NY (US);

Dirk Van Dall, Shelter Island, NY (US);

James Bowers, Durham, NC (US);

Anthony Waters, Prospect, CT (US);

Thomas Engel, Haarlem, NL;

Assignee:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/8547 (2011.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4302 (2013.01); G11B 27/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/4104 (2013.01); H04N 21/8547 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one implementation, a method of guiding an interaction between a companion module and a user includes identifying a media content for playout by a media player device, transmitting, to a remote server, an interaction schema request identifying the media content and the companion module, and receiving, from the remote server, behavioral manifest data including an instruction for guiding the interaction between the companion module and the user. Such a method also includes obtaining a play head state of the media player device and a playout timecode state of the media content, and identifying a user interaction behavior for the companion module based on the behavioral manifest data, the play head state of the media player device, and the playout timecode state of the media content.


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