Patent ID: 9325953
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for synchronizing interactive application content with broadcasting program information, the method comprising: receiving a signal emitted from a television receiving and televising a broadcast from a television broadcasting station; enabling a reception of a digital data from a server by a computing device not receiving the broadcast from the television broadcasting station, in response to the receiving of the signal without transmitting to the server a request for the digital data, without transmitting to the server any portion of the signal emitted from the television, and without transmitting to the server any information generated from the signal emitted from the television, the digital data being separate from the broadcast by the television broadcasting station; receiving the digital, data from the server by the computing device in synchronization with an on-air commercial programming being received by the television; providing an interactive environment on a display of the computing device using the digital data; transmitting a user feedback information generated from a user action within the interactive environment to the server; and disabling the reception of the digital data by the computing device in synchronization with a return of regular noncommercial programming through the television transmitted from the television broadcasting station.