Patent ID: 7934233
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for providing complementary information for a video program, said method comprising the steps of: receiving by a device complementary information for a video program; receiving a query from a consumer, the query related to a specified portion of the complementary information; and providing a query response to the consumer based on the specified portion of the complementary information, wherein said method further comprises: anticipating complementary information that might be requested by the consumer in response to said received complementary information and consumer profile data collected and stored in user data tables, and storing said anticipatory complementary information, and wherein said step of providing a query response comprises the substeps of: predicting a type of information that the consumer desires more information about; retrieving the stored anticipatory complementary information according to information of the predicted type; and providing the anticipatory complementary information as the query response, wherein if the predicted type information of the query response is not information desired by the consumer, then responsive to additional queries, providing additional anticipatory complementary information until correct desired information is provided via the complementary information of the query response.