Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Searching multimedia based on trigger events
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Application No.: US15343426Application Date: 2016-11-04
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Publication No.: US10261999B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Jim Funk , Brandon Noffsinger
- Applicant: ROKU, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Gatos
- Assignee: ROKU, INC.
- Current Assignee: ROKU, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Gatos
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04N5/445
- IPC: H04N5/445 ; G06F17/30 ; H04N21/2387 ; H04N21/41 ; H04N21/466 ; H04N21/472 ; H04N21/482 ; H04N21/237 ; H04N21/8405

Abstract:
A system and method for intelligent content searching is disclosed herein. The system saves all searches executed by the user and periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches and display the subsequent search results to the user at an appropriate time without any user intervention. In one aspect, the system periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches upon the occurrence of a trigger event, which may be trending events, news events, type of menus and/or screens accessed, new content being added on one or more service providers, a boot event, passage of time since last search, etc. In this way, users do not need to set alert or follow any search topic.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170124076A1 SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA BASED ON TRIGGER EVENTS Public/Granted day:2017-05-04
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