Patent ID: 8978075
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, at a companion device separate from a television, a current time point of a video program playing at the television, wherein the current time point of the video program is a time point currently being displayed at the television; identifying, based on said determination of the current time point of the video program and based on metadata defining a cue point associated with the determined current time point and an operation associated with the cue point, a particular operation to be performed; performing, at the companion device, the particular operation; wherein the particular operation is to cause a display of supplemental content at the television; determining that the supplemental content has concluded replaying; in response to said determination that the supplemental content has concluded replaying, sending instructions to a set top box associated with the television, a video server containing the video program, or the television to resume replaying the video program at a resume time point of the video program; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.