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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Nishith Kumar Sinha, Mableton, GA (US);
Donald Jude Loheide, Mableton, GA (US);
Matthew Paul Giles, Marietta, GA (US);
Karl-Christian Sebastian Wolff-Ingham, Decatur, GA (US);
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
An automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device may be associated with a paired device and the paired device may comprise a browser. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may be operable to enable, utilizing an ACR system, the browser to display, within a section of a browser window, interactive content related to certain content being presented by the ACR-enabled connected TV device. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may be operable to enable, utilizing the ACR system, a viewer to interact with the interactive content. The section of the browser window may be changed dynamically. The certain content may comprise an advertisement of a particular product and the interactive content may comprise a link to a website and/or other information related to the particular product. The certain content may comprise a program associated with a network and the interactive content may comprise information on polling questions related to the program.