Patent ID: 9615142
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. An information display method comprising: downloading, over a communications network, a trivia question, a set of multiple choice answers, an identification of a correct answer, and a write-up relating to the trivia question; receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of the video on a primary screen device; establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video; identifying a commercial break during the playing of the video; displaying, on a second screen device and during the identified commercial break, the trivia question and the set of multiple choice answers, the displaying being responsive to a user's preestablished preference with respect to a depiction of commercials during a playing of a video, the trivia question being unrelated to a commercial currently depicted during the commercial break; and displaying, responsive to receiving a user's selection from the set of multiple choice answers, the identification of the correct answer and the write-up relating to the trivia question.