EP3146727A1 - Système et procédé de configuration de la fonctionnalité de commande à distance d'un dispositif portable - Google Patents

Système et procédé de configuration de la fonctionnalité de commande à distance d'un dispositif portable

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EP3146727A1
EP3146727A1 EP15796548.4A EP15796548A EP3146727A1 EP 3146727 A1 EP3146727 A1 EP 3146727A1 EP 15796548 A EP15796548 A EP 15796548A EP 3146727 A1 EP3146727 A1 EP 3146727A1
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appliance
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advertising content
smart device
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Paul D. Arling
Patrick H. Hayes
Arsham Hatambeiki
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Universal Electronics Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/266—Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
    • H04N21/2668—Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles
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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/4104—Peripherals receiving signals from specially adapted client devices
    • H04N21/4126—The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
    • H04N21/41265—The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/422—Input-only peripherals, i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
    • H04N21/42204—User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor
    • H04N21/42206—User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor characterized by hardware details
    • H04N21/42224—Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/81—Monomedia components thereof
    • H04N21/812—Monomedia components thereof involving advertisement data
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/81—Monomedia components thereof
    • H04N21/8166—Monomedia components thereof involving executable data, e.g. software
    • H04N21/8186—Monomedia components thereof involving executable data, e.g. software specially adapted to be executed by a peripheral of the client device, e.g. by a reprogrammable remote control

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  • Patent 7,969,514 which application is a continuation of U.S. Patent Application No. 1 1/515,962, filed September 5 2006, (now U.S. Patent 7,907,222). The disclosure within each of these referenced applications is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • Personal communication, productivity, and entertainment devices such as tablet computers, smart phones, portable email devices, e-books, hand-held games and/or game controllers, portable media players, etc.
  • smart devices are known to include features such as graphical user interfaces on color touch screens, wireless Internet capability, support for ancillary applications (sometimes referred to as "apps") such as, for example, calendars, email, maps and navigation, etc.
  • ancillary applications may be pre-installed in a smart device or may be made available for download by a user.
  • Certain such apps may comprise an ability to issue commands to entertainment and other appliances, for example in conjunction with a GUI offering the features and functionality of a universal remote control as known in the art, in conjunction with a TV guide display to enable channel selection, etc.
  • remote control apps may be provisioned with a library of command data and protocols suitable for controlling a plurality of appliances of different type and/or manufacture (a so-called “universal remote”).
  • a command library and the hardware necessary to transmit operational commands to appliances may be incorporated into or made available to the smart device itself, or may take the form of a separate external device which is placed in communication with the smart device (i.e., a relay device or so-called
  • This invention relates generally to system and method for displaying advertising content.
  • a first app installed on a first device functions to retrieve the advertising content and to then provide the advertising content to a second app installed on a second device.
  • the second app installed on the second device will cause the advertising content to be displayed as an overlay in a display associated with the second device.
  • the advertising content is preferably retrieved from a network server and the first device and the second device are preferably smart devices, such as a smart television, a media streaming device, a smart phone, and the like.
  • FIGS. la and lb illustrate exemplary systems in which a smart device app configured in accordance with the instant invention may be utilized
  • Figure 2 illustrates exemplary interconnections which may be used during configuration of the smart device(s) of Figure 1 in accordance with a first embodiment of the invention
  • Figure 3 illustrates a series of steps which may be performed by a smart device during an HDMI enabled setup process
  • Figure 4 illustrates an exemplary appliance identity database record which may be utilized in configuring a smart device app in accordance with the subject disclosure
  • Figure 5 illustrates a further exemplary system in which configuration of the smart device(s) of Figure 1 may be accomplished in accordance with a second embodiment of the invention
  • Figure 6 illustrates a series of steps which may be performed by a smart device during an appliance enabled setup process
  • Figure 7 illustrates a further series of steps which may be performed by a smart device during an HDMI enabled setup process
  • Figure 8 illustrates a further exemplary system which may allow advertisements from a content owner to be displayed.
  • Figs, la and lb illustrate exemplary systems 102 and 104 wherein a smart device 100 may be adapted to issue commands to controllable appliances such as a TV 106, set top box (STB) 108, DVD player 110, etc.
  • controllable appliances may include, but need not be limited to, televisions, VCRs, DVRs, DVD players, cable or satellite converter set-top boxes (“STBs"), amplifiers, AV receivers, CD players, game consoles, home lighting, drapery, fans, HVAC systems, thermostats, personal computers, etc.
  • a smart device 100 may include both a universal remote control app and the necessary hardware to enable direct transmission of commands to appliances 106 through 110.
  • Appliance commands may be issued in the form of infrared signals 112 as illustrated, or in any other suitable format, e.g., via an RF signal such as contemplated by RF4CE, Zwave, Bluetooth, etc.; ultrasonic signal; visible light; etc. as appropriate for the control of each particular appliance.
  • these command signals may be issued directly by smart device 102 using, for example, the technology described in co-pending U.S. Patent Application 13/043,915 which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • appliance commands 1 12 may be issued indirectly via a relay device 114 which is responsive to wireless communications 1 16 received from the universal remote control app resident in smart device 100, for example as described in co-pending U.S. Patent Application 13/071,661, also incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • the remote control app and/or associated relay device is provisioned with the specific command data and protocol (a "codeset") to which each of the to-be- controlled appliances is responsive.
  • this may take the form of a pointer or index into a library of codesets pre-stored locally in the memory of smart device 100 or of relay device 1 14; individual codesets downloaded to those devices during a configuration process; an item-by-item download of individual codeset command codes on an as-required basis from a library stored locally on a PC or on an appliance such as STB 108 or TV 106, or stored remotely at a headend or internet accessible server; etc.
  • a remote control app resident on a smart device 100 may be matched to the appliances to be controlled, for example a TV set 106 and/or a cable STB 108 and DVD player 1 10 by temporarily connecting an HDMI port 206 of smart device 100 to an available HDMI port 210 of an appliance to be controlled, e.g., TV 106 in the illustrative example, via an HDMI compatible cable 208, via a HDMI capable wireless link, etc.
  • the remote app of smart device 100 may be placed into a setup mode in which mode the app may solicit device identification data from TV 106 such as, for example a CEC manufacturer ID and/or an EDID manufacturer number and product code.
  • the data so obtained may be uploaded from the smart device to a server 200 via, for example a WiFi connection 204 to the Internet 202.
  • Server 200 may include a database 216 which cross-references CEC and/or EDID device identity data to appliance command codesets, which database may be referenced to determine an appropriate command codeset for control of exemplary appliance 106.
  • the database in which appliance command codesets are cross-referenced to data that is itself referenced according to a standard may be locally resident in the smart device itself; or may be resident in an appliance accessible as part of a WiFi network such as for example a local PC or STB. Regardless, once determined, the desired codeset may then be provisioned to the remote control app of smart device 100, in the form of a pointer or index into a local database; or in the form of a downloaded codeset block from a codeset database 218 stored on server 200; etc.; as appropriate.
  • a setup program which forms part of a remote control app installed on that smart device may be initiated, for example from a configuration or settings menu as is well known in the art.
  • the setup program may commence by issuing successive CEC compatible ⁇ Polling Message> transmissions (as defined in the HDMI specification and accompanying CEC supplement) to each of the possible type-specific CEC logical device addresses.
  • the CEC protocol may support up to 16 possible logical address values, with each value allocated to a particular appliance type: For example, a TV device may only assume logical address zero or 14; a playback device such as a DVD player may only use one of logical addresses 4, 8 or 1 1; a tuning device may only use one of logical addresses 3, 6, 7 or 10; etc.
  • the initiating device (smart device 100 in this example) in accordance with one version of the CEC specification may always assume address 15.
  • the CEC protocol allows for an appliance to act as a CEC Switch, i.e., to transparently route CEC communications to/from appliances connected to its other HDMI ports, such as STB 108 or DVD player 106 in the illustrative example. Accordingly in those instances where this functionality is supported by the host appliance to which the smart device is tethered, the setup program may be thereby enabled to interrogate downstream appliances.
  • the setup program continues at step 320 to allow manual configuration by a user of the app. If, however, one or more responses are detected, at step 306 a CEC ⁇ Give Device Vendor ID> message is transmitted to the first responsive logical address value.
  • the appliance to which this message is directed may respond with a unique 24-bit vendor ID, which number is assigned to CEC-compliant manufacturers by the IEEE in accord with the standard.
  • this vendor ID number together with the CEC logical address from which it originated (being indicative of appliance type), may be forwarded by the setup program to a codeset identifier, for example a Web service resident on server 200.
  • the setup program may determine if the response constitutes a positive identification of a codeset for use in issuing commands to the indicated appliance, or if it comprises a request for additional information by way of disambiguation. If neither, it is assumed that the identifier service has failed to identify a suitable codeset, and the setup program continues at step 318 to determine if additional appliances remain to be identified. If the received response comprises a request for additional disambiguation information, such information may be retrieved at step 316 and forwarded to the codeset identification service for further processing.
  • the response comprises a request for additional disambiguation information
  • disambiguation data requests may be for Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) as specified by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), retrievable from display devices via the HDMI interface and which may for example includes data fields corresponding to a Microsoft-assigned manufacturer ID and/or a manufacturer-assigned product code; for a response to a ⁇ Get Menu Language> CEC request (which may be indicative of a territory/market in which the appliance is currently installed); for responses to ⁇ Give OSD Name> or ⁇ Get CEC version> CEC requests; for retrieval of SPD data corresponding to an input HDMI port of the host appliance (i.e. TV 106 of the illustrative example) where such retrieval is supported by the host appliance; etc.; as appropriate for a particular embodiment or appliance.
  • EDID Extended Display Identification Data
  • VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
  • CEA standard CEA-861B specifies that a digital video source may optionally insert a periodic Source Product Description information frame into its output video stream.
  • This "InfoFrame" may comprise a seven byte ASCII vendor name, a sixteen byte ASCII product description such as a model number, and a one byte binary product type identifier (e.g., Olh is a digital STB, 02h is a DVD player, 05h is digital video camera, etc.)
  • Rendering devices such as TV 106 may optionally decode this data and use it to augment on-screen menu displays, etc.
  • a codeset identification service may request that certain CEC transmissions be initiated to an appliance and the resulting response(s) reported, to allow exact identification of an appliance by verification of its support for certain features (or lack thereof).
  • the remote control app of smart device 100 may be configured accordingly.
  • configuration may take the form of storing a pointer to, or index into a preloaded local library of command codesets, provision of the required codeset as a data download from a server based codeset library 218, etc., as appropriate for a particular embodiment.
  • the setup program next determines whether additional appliances remain to be identified. If so, processing returns to step 306 to repeat the above identification process for the next appliance.
  • step 320 additional user input may be solicited as necessary.
  • user input may comprise, for example, provision of explicit model number information and/or codeset numbers, etc., to complete the identification and configuration of any appliances which were not responsive to the CEC polling request, which could not be uniquely identified by the automated codeset identification service, etc., after which the initial configuration of the remote control app of smart device 100 is complete. Since the various alternative methods for identification of appliance command codesets are well known in the art, for the sake of brevity these will be discussed further herein.
  • an exemplary embodiment of an appliance identification database 216 may comprise a group of records 400, one for each distinctly identifiable appliance, each record comprising a series of fields 402 through 436' as illustrated.
  • each appliance record 400 may include a basic appliance identity 440 which may comprise data fields such as appliance type 402, brand 404, model number 406, serial number or date range 408,410 (where necessary to ensure unique identification, for example where a manufacturer has changed an appliance feature in the middle of a model run) and the identifier 412 of an appliance command codeset for use in commanding operation of the appliance.
  • geographic or market region codes 414 may also form part of the basic appliance identity.
  • the information comprising this basic appliance identity may be utilized in various prior art methods for configuring controlling devices to command operation of the appliance, for example matching a user provided brand and model number, printing set up code lists to be published in manuals, sequentially testing codesets corresponding to a particular appliance type and brand (and sometimes region), etc., all as well known in the art.
  • an exemplary appliance identification database record 400 in accordance with the instant invention may include additional fields 416 through 436' which comprise a second, electronic, identity 450 for the same appliance.
  • Such an electronic identity may comprise a tabulation of data items which may be solicited electronically from the appliance, for example via the HDMI interconnection 208 of the illustrative embodiment.
  • This data may include without limitation a CEC vendor ID 416, a CEC version 418, a CEC OSD name 420, an EDID manufacturer ID 422, an EDID product code 424, an EDID version/revision number 426, an SPD vendor name 428, and an SPD product description 430.
  • geographic region codes 414 may also form part of an electronic appliance identity, since these may be derivable from CEC ⁇ Get Menu Language> responses. It should also be noted that, due to practices such as private labeling, multi-sourcing, etc., the
  • vendor/manufacturer ID and name fields 416, 422, and 428 are not necessarily synonymous with each other or with brand field 404.
  • additional data fields may be part of an appliance identity record 400. These may include for example further EDID discernable parameters 432 through 432', such as video formats and resolutions supported, timing data, etc., and/or CEC challenge/response data fields
  • Such challenge/response fields may comprise an electronic command or query 434 to be issued to an appliance together with an expected response 436 to be returned by the appliance.
  • a CEC ⁇ Give Deck Status> request may be issued in the expectation that the non-DVR STB response will be a CEC ⁇ Feature Abort> message.
  • multiple challenge/response data fields 434',436' may be provided.
  • data fields which are not applicable or not available for a specific appliance may be set as "null".
  • serial number range fields 408,410 may not be necessary, certain appliance types may not support EDID, etc.
  • an illustrative appliance identification service resident on and/or associated with server 200, for example, implemented by instructions stored on a non-transient, computer readable media accessible by the server 200, and interacting with an exemplary smart device set up app which operates generally in accordance with the logic previously described in connection with the flowchart of Figure 3, may receive an initial communication from smart device 100 comprising a CEC vendor ID together with an indication of appliance type (e.g., the CEC logical address from which that vendor ID was retrieved.)
  • the appliance identification service may apply those values as a mask to select only those records 400 of database 216 which match the requested criteria, i.e., a match in field 402 with the appliance type implied by the CEC logical address value retrieved from an appliance and a match in field 416 with the CEC vendor ID retrieved from the appliance.
  • the data content of this initial communication may comprise other values, such as for example an SPD vendor name and product description, in place of or in addition to the values mentioned above, in which case the selection mask may be adjusted accordingly. If only a single match results, the identification is complete and the corresponding codeset identifier value from field 412 of that record may be returned to the setup app resident in smart device 100. If, however, multiple records meet the selection criteria the appliance identification service may then examine the contents of these records to determine which data field in that remaining subset exhibits the greatest diversity. Once the determination is made, a request for the retrieval of that data item from the appliance may be forwarded to the setup app resident in smart device 100.
  • other values such as for example an SPD vendor name and product description
  • the smart device setup app may respond in the negative in which case the currently requested item may be eliminated from the appliance identification matching process and a new request issued for an alternative data item.
  • steps may be iterated until either a single database record remains and its codeset identifier 412 can be communicated to the setup app; or no further selection criteria are available, i.e., every field 414 through 436' has either been utilized or been found to contain a null value, in which case a failure may be communicated to the smart device setup app, allowing it to initiate a user message suggesting that an alternative set up method be employed.
  • an exemplary smart device set up app when invoked 700, may receive 702 an initial communication comprising data representative of a plurality of appliances within a home entertainment system which includes an intended target appliance.
  • data may include an indication of appliance type (e.g., the CEC logical address from which that vendor ID was retrieved or the SPD data.)
  • the appliance identification service may then use the received data, if sufficient to identify the target appliance 704, to configure714 the controlling device to issue commands to the target appliance, e.g., the identification is complete and the corresponding codeset identifier value from field 412 of that record may be returned to the setup app resident in smart device 100.
  • the service will use the received type identifying data to discern which type of appliance the target appliance is not 706. For example, if no SPD data is available for the intended target appliance but SPD data is received which identifies a blue-ray player and an A/V receiver within the home entertainment system, the service will apply those values as a mask to select those records 400 of database 216 which do not match the data provided, i.e., it will eliminate from consideration those codesets that are applicable only to blue-ray players and A/V receivers.
  • these steps may be iterated until either a single database record remains and its codeset identifier 412 can be communicated to the setup app; or no further selection criteria 718 are available, i.e., every field 414 through 436' has either been utilized or been found to contain a null value, in which case a failure may be communicated to the smart device setup app, allowing it to initiate a user message suggesting that an alternative set up method be employed.
  • a smart device remote control app in accordance with the instant invention may undergo additional customization while in physical communication with the controlled appliances via the exemplary HDMI connection.
  • the response(s) to a CEC ⁇ Get Menu Language> request may be utilized to adjust the menus, key labels, etc., of the remote control app to match those in use by the controlled appliances.
  • the language to which the smart device is currently regionalized may be conveyed to the controlled appliances via a CEC ⁇ Set Menu Language> request, thereby adapting the appliance displays to match the user preference settings of the smart device.
  • an appliance such as TV 106 is adapted to perform the beforementioned CEC switching function and is equipped to support such a query
  • that switching appliance may be requested to indicate which of its physical HDMI ports (e.g. 210, 212, and 214) are associated with which downstream CEC logical addresses (e.g., STB 108, DVD player 110, etc.)
  • the data so acquired may then be utilized by a smart device remote control app to configure activity macros, for example without limitation "Watch TV” or "Watch a movie", such that a command to select the appropriate HDMI input of TV 106 will be automatically issued when the activity is initiated.
  • Such macro configuration may be completely automatic, or may require user input: For example where multiple media playback appliances are detected in a configuration (e.g., both a DVD player and Vudu streaming video on demand box) a user may be prompted to select which appliance is to be used for a "Watch movie” activity (it being understood that in cases such as this multiple "Watch movie” activities may also be configured).
  • the prompt may include the appliances self-provided identities retrieved using CEC ⁇ Get OSD name> requests, appliance brand names and/or model numbers supplied by a codeset identification service, TV input port numbers, or any combination thereof as appropriate.
  • a remote control app resident in smart device 100 may interact with an appliance such as STB 108 to retrieve from that appliance the codeset identities which had been previously been determined during set up of a conventional universal remote control 500 supplied in conjunction with that appliance, e.g., STB 108.
  • codeset identities may for example comprise information regarding the command data and protocols suitable for control of TV 107 and DVD player 1 10.
  • a user may initially configure a universal remote control 500 using an interactive application resident in STB 108, for example as described in U.S. Patent 7,969,514 and U.S.
  • a user may acquire and install a remote control app for a smart device, desirous of using that app to command the operation of the appliances of the system of Figure 5.
  • a smart device app may determine if a compatible STB appliance is present in the user's equipment configuration, e.g, an appliance such as STB 108 which has previously conducted an interactive setup, stored codeset identities, and is capable of communicating these to smart device 100.
  • discovery and communication may for example be via a wireless connection 502, using WiFi 204, Bluetooth, or any other protocol as convenient for a particular embodiment.
  • the discovery of a compatible appliance(s) may occur automatically, e.g., when the smart device is initially invoked; may occur upon initial user configuration of the smart device app to command the operation of the compatible appliance (e.g. STB 108); may be manually initiated by a user; etc.; or any combination thereof as appropriate. If no compatible appliance is detected at step 604, the method may continue at step 614 to perform alternate configuration of the smart device app using methods such as those described previously herein or any other suitable appliance command set identification method as known in the art.
  • the smart device app may offer a user the option of automatically configuring the app to command the operation of the balance of the user's appliances. If the user declines, the app continues with the alternate configuration methods of step 614. If the user accepts, at step 610 the smart device may retrieve from the compatible appliance, e.g., STB 108, the codeset identities applicable to the other appliances for which universal remote control 500 has been set up to command the operation of. Once these identities have been retrieved and loaded into the smart device, in some embodiments at step 612 a listing of the appliances to be added the smart device app configuration may be displayed for user confirmation.
  • the compatible appliance e.g., STB 108
  • such a listing may comprise the codeset identifiers themselves, brand names and/or model numbers associated with those identifiers (which may be included in the data retrieved from STB 108; cross referenced in a database stored locally in smart device 100; retrievable from a remote database 216,218; or any combination thereof).
  • the smart device may configure itself to command operation of the selected appliances, for example as previously described in connection with step 314 of Figure 3. Additionally, in certain embodiments, in place of any of the methods of step 314 one or more of the appliance codesets (i.e. command data and protocol information) may be downloaded directly from STB 108 itself.
  • SPD data retrieved from a device can be used to provide further services within the home entertainment system.
  • a first appliance e.g., a smart TV
  • a second appliance e.g., a STB
  • the SPD retrieved from a second appliance can use the SPD retrieved from a second appliance to automatically download an app for use on the first appliance that is relevant to the second appliance, e.g., an app appropriate for a content service provider associated with the second appliance.
  • the app may be an app to provide an EPG or EPG-like overlay on the first device first device where the data displayed by the first device is automatically synchronized with the operation of the second device, such as by having the app use metadata within content streams received from the second device to automatically update what is being displayed thereby.
  • Figure 8 illustrates an exemplary system 806 wherein a display device 106, e.g., a television, may be adapted to display advertisement content 804.
  • a media streamer 802 - in communication with the display device 106 - is provided with an app 800A which functions to provide advertising content for use by a corresponding app 800B provided to the display device 106 where the corresponding app 800B functions to display the received advertisement content as an overlay on the display device 106.
  • the app 800A While a function of the app 800A is to provide advertising content to the app 800B, it is to be appreciated that the app 800A may provide additional content, such as audio/visual media content, to the display device 106 for presentation thereon as is conventional in the art.
  • the advertising content that is provided by the app 800A to the app 800B may be related to content that the media streamer 802 is providing to the display device 106 (for example via use of app 800A or another app installed on the media steamer 802), may be related to the media streamer device 802 and/or display device 106 itself, a manufacturer of the media streamer device 802 and/or display device 106, content that is being presented on the display device 106, or the like without limitation.
  • the app 800A of the media server 802 can actively retrieve advertising content from a remote server using information that is stored thereon, which is obtained thereby, and/or which retrieved from and/or provided thereto by app 800B of the display device 106.
  • the app 800A can be pushed advertising content from the remote server which pushed information may also be based upon the above-noted or other information that the app 800A provides to the remote server.
  • the network server can also use its own information (for example as based upon any monitoring of media that is being steamed (currently or in the past) to the network streamer 102.
  • the app 800A can store the received advertising content received from the network server for later provision to the app 800B and/or the app 800A may function to merely pass the advertising content received from the network server directly to the app 800B.
  • the app 800B can be provide the advertising content on-demand or in a bulk-transfer from app 800A as desired.
  • the retrieving of the advertising content from the remote server and/or the pushing of the advertising content from the remote server can be performed on-demand as noted and/or at predetermined periods of time, such as during times on non-peak network activity.
  • the apps 800A and 800B are preferably data-synchronized for this purpose and, as such, the apps 800A and 800B can be programmed to request updates as needed to ensure that the apps remain interoperable between themselves and/or with the hardware upon which they are provisioned. Furthermore, it is to be understood that interoperable apps 800 may be installed in multiple entertainment devices, in which case the advertisement content 804 may be served to the same app 800B installed on the display device 106 by the media streamer 802 and/or by an app 800C provided to a smart device 100.
  • an app may be installed on appliances which may include, but need not be limited to, televisions, VCRs, DVRs, DVD players, cable or satellite converter set-top boxes (“STBs"), amplifiers, AV receivers, CD players, game consoles, network video streamers, personal computers, portable devices with and without displays, etc.
  • appliances may include, but need not be limited to, televisions, VCRs, DVRs, DVD players, cable or satellite converter set-top boxes ("STBs"), amplifiers, AV receivers, CD players, game consoles, network video streamers, personal computers, portable devices with and without displays, etc.
  • the advertising content 804 may be displayed as an overlay on the display device 106 when the display device 106 is set to a particular input (for viewing and/or listening to the media content) and/or when the media streamer 802 is tuned to a particular video content source.
  • a command sequence for causing the device(s) to perform any required actions may be created by a setup process for execution by a controlling device, such as controlling device 100. Since methods for control of entertainment appliances and/or use of macros are well known in the art, these will not be discussed further herein, however for additional information the interested reader may turn to for example U.S. Patent Applications 13/657, 176 entitled “System and Method for Optimized Appliance Control” or 13/071,661 entitled “System and Method for Facilitating Appliance Control via a Smart Device,” both of common ownership and both incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
  • a smart device in accordance with the invention may nevertheless be individually attached to multiple appliances in sequence in order to perform an electronically-enabled setup. It will also be appreciated that in certain embodiments, for the sake of efficiency multiple appliance-identifying data items may be gathered and jointly forwarded to an appliance identification service as a single transaction, rather than in a step-by-step fashion as described above. Such information may be transferred to the device being configured using an intermediate device which is capable of obtaining the needed information from the target appliances and for providing the same to the device being configured.

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L'invention concerne un système et un procédé utilisés pour afficher un contenu publicitaire. Une première application installée sur un premier dispositif récupère le contenu publicitaire et le fournit ensuite à une seconde application installée sur un second dispositif. La seconde application installée sur le second dispositif amène le contenu publicitaire à s'afficher en superposition dans un affichage associé au second dispositif.
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