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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
May. 07, 2008
Guy Perry, San Diego, CA (US);
Guy Perry, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of directing a recipient of video content items employing a mobile device to at least one video content item of interest to the recipient comprises: storing a plurality of predetermined pattern identifiers and corresponding pattern data, the pattern identifiers and pattern data generated by reference to data predictive of recipient interest; detecting a predetermined pattern in at least one video content item by reference to the stored pattern data; and in response to the detection, transmitting an indication of the at least one video content item and the pattern identifier corresponding to the stored pattern data used to detect the predetermined pattern in the video content item to a plurality of mobile devices including the mobile device employed by the recipient, the indication directing the recipient to the video content item that is associated with the detected predetermined pattern that is of interest to the recipient. This allows users to follow desired live events without having to watch undesirable programming waiting for something interesting to happen.