Patent ID: 9402109
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An entertainment device comprising: a receiving interface that receives video programming content from a video content distributor and that receives a plurality of user-generated advertisements corresponding to the geographical region of the entertainment device, wherein each of the user-generated advertisements is associated with at least one category based upon an automated user-input-free categorization process, wherein a user-generated advertisement of the received user-generated advertisements includes embedded interactive content, and wherein the entertainment device comprises a television set-top box; a processor, coupled to the receiving interface, that identifies a plurality of channels of the video programming content and that identifies a plurality of channels of the user-generated advertisements, wherein each of the channels of user-generated advertisements correspond to a category of the user-generated advertisements, the processor providing a nonlinear channel of visual data comprising one or more of the user-generated advertisements corresponding with a particular category, and providing a channel identifier corresponding to the nonlinear channel; a user input interface, coupled to the processor, that receives a user selection of a channel of the plurality of channels of the user-generated advertisements, wherein the user input interface is further configured to receive a user selection of the embedded interactive content; an upload graphical user interface configured to facilitate a user of the entertainment device to upload an advertisement generated by the user; a transmission interface configured to transmit an uploaded advertisement generated by the user to the video content distributor; an output interface coupled to a presentation device, which outputs one or more of the user-generated advertisement on a user-selected channel for display on the presentation device, the output interface outputting the nonlinear channel of video data responsive to a user selection of the corresponding channel identifier, wherein the nonlinear channel of audiovisual data is a virtual channel that is generated at the entertainment device to present a view of one or more of the plurality of user-generated advertisements; a storage module that stores the received plurality of user-generated advertisements; and a communications interface communicatively coupled with a user mobile phone that initiates a communication from the user mobile phone to a second user regarding a user-generated advertisement responsive to the user input interface receiving the user selection.