Patent ID: 9591372
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for customizing interactive overlays, the method comprising: receiving a first user input that identifies a first information type in a set of information types to include in an overlay for a set of content sources and a second user input that identifies a second information type in the set of information types to include in the overlay for the set of content sources, wherein the first information type and the second information type are associated with a same media asset of a plurality of media assets; receiving a user indication to access a media asset from a given content source; determining whether the given content source is in the set of content sources; and if the given content source is in the set of content sources, generating for display the media asset and the overlay that includes a first and a second items of information each associated with the media asset, wherein the first item of information corresponds to the first information type in the set of information types identified by the first user input and the second item of information corresponds to the second information type in the set of information types identified by the second user input.