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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2013
Sonic Ip, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
William Amidei, La Jolla, CA (US);
Francis Chan, San Diego, CA (US);
Eric Grab, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Kiefer, Lake Havasu City, AZ (US);
Aaron McDaniel, La Mesa, CA (US);
John Mickus, San Marcos, CA (US);
Ronald Mombourquette, San Diego, CA (US);
Nikolai Popov, Tierrasanta, CA (US);
Fred Zuill, Poway, CA (US);
Sonic IP, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems to provide supplemental content to a user who is viewing video or other content. The user's device (through which he will access the video) then provides an identifier of that video to a server or other computing facility. Here, the video identifier is used to identify supplemental content that corresponds to the user's video. The supplemental content is then provided to the user device for the user's consumption. The supplemental content may be structured in such a way that pieces of the supplemental content are accessible at particular points in the video. The piece(s) of the supplemental content available at a particular point in the video will be related to one or more objects that are present at this point. This allows a user to access one or more pieces of supplemental content in a context-specific manner, at a point in the video where the piece(s) of supplemental content are relevant.