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Social and interactive applications for mass media

A media, user technology for social and interactive applications of mass media

Active Publication Date: 2009-08-26
GOOGLE LLC
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However, these ratings require the installation of specialized hardware and the cooperation of participating viewers

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[0030] Mass personalization application

[0031] Mass personalization applications provide personalized and interactive information related to mass media broadcasts (eg, television, radio broadcasts, movies, Internet broadcasts, etc.). These applications include, but are not limited to: personalized information layers, self-organized social peer groups, real-time public ratings, and video (or audio) bookmarks, etc. Although some of the mass media examples disclosed herein are in the context of television broadcasting, the disclosed embodiments are equally applicable to radio and / or music broadcasting.

[0032] The personalized information layer provides supplementary information for mass media channels. Examples of personalized information layers include, but are not limited to: fashion, politics, business, health, travel, etc. For example, when watching a news segment about a famous person, the viewer is presented with a fashion layer on a television screen or computer disp...

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The invention discloses systems, methods, apparatuses, user interfaces and computer program products for providing social and interactive applications for mass media based on real-time ambient-audio and / or video identification. In some implementations, a method includes: receiving descriptors identifying ambient audio associated with a media broadcast; comparing the descriptors to one or more reference descriptors; and determining a rating for the media broadcast based at least in part on the results of the comparison.

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[0001] related application [0002] This application claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60 / 740,760, entitled "Environment-Based Referrals," filed November 29, 2005, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. [0003] This application claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60 / 823,881, entitled "Audio Identification Based on Signatures," filed August 29, 2006, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. technical field [0004] The present invention relates to social and interactive applications of mass media. Background technique [0005] Mass media channels (such as television and radio broadcasts) typically provide limited content to a broad audience. In contrast, the World Wide Web provides a vast amount of information, but its content may be of interest to only a few people. Traditional interactive television attempts to bridge these two communication media by providing viewers with ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F13/00
Inventor 迈克尔·芬克舒梅特·巴卢哈米歇尔·科维尔
Owner GOOGLE LLC
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