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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2011
Philip Chidel, Novato, CA (US);
Douglas H. Crawford, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Gilles, Alameda, CA (US);
Julie Petrarca, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Michael Ryan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip Chidel, Novato, CA (US);
Douglas H. Crawford, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Gilles, Alameda, CA (US);
Julie Petrarca, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Michael Ryan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Coincident.TV, Inc., Hillsborough, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for enabling nodes of a client-server network to interact with broadcast program content, the system includes a server node that can detect the presence on the network of one or more client nodes; a trigger extractor that can extract program-synchronous triggers from within the content of a broadcast program; and an application manager that, in response to extraction of a program-synchronous trigger from a broadcast program, can facilitate interactive communication, relating to the broadcast program content, between the server node and one or more client nodes whose presence on the network has been detected.