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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. 11, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aaron Steven Master, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Riedmiller, Penngrove, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01); H04N 21/8547 (2011.01); H04N 21/222 (2011.01); H04N 21/236 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/242 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04N 21/222 (2013.01); H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/23614 (2013.01); H04N 21/242 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/6581 (2013.01); H04N 21/8547 (2013.01); H04N 21/8586 (2013.01); H04N 21/85406 (2013.01);
Abstract

Essence of a media program can be encoded such that it carries essence identification information and a set of time points. Auxiliary content such as companion content and other auxiliary data can be associated with the essence of the media program by way of the set of time points. The set of time points and/or fingerprints used to retrieve/recover the set of time points can be delivered to one or more of a media device, a companion device/application, etc., in any of a variety of different methods. Through the set of time points and/or fingerprints, and user preferences, the auxiliary content can be retrieved by the one or more of the media device, the companion device/application, etc., presented and/or interacted with a user. In some embodiments, the auxiliary content as described herein can be customized for a specific sender and/or a specific recipient.


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