Patent ID: 9648373
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04H,H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer system including a processor and a memory, the memory containing software instructions configuring the system to perform acts including: receiving reports, and storing plural data records, indicating for each of plural third parties, an item of primary entertainment content viewed by said third party on a first screen device, and an item of secondary content voluntarily chosen by said third party for viewing on a second screen device in conjunction with said item of primary entertainment content, the computer system also storing location information for each of said third parties, the computer system thus storing data identifying a multitude of items of secondary content voluntarily chosen by said third parties; receiving data indicating, for a first viewer, an item of primary entertainment content presently being viewed by said first viewer on a first screen device of said viewer; based on correspondence between a location of the first viewer, and said location information stored for said third parties, and also based on correspondence between said item of primary entertainment content presently being viewed by the first viewer, and said items of primary entertainment content viewed by said third parties, determining plural items of secondary content for identification to the first viewer, said plural items being an incomplete subset of said multitude of items of secondary content voluntarily chosen by the third parties; and sending data identifying said incomplete subset of items of secondary content, for display on a screen of a second screen device of said viewer, for the viewer to choose therebetween; wherein pairing of a secondary content item to complement a primary entertainment content item is not specified by commercial entities, such as advertisers and content networks, but rather is made by the viewer, guided by voluntary choices made by other viewers.