Appeal 2007-0926
Application 09/818,303
Appellants’ invention relates to a system and method for providing
information about a video program, more particularly for enabling a
television user to “obtain information concerning particularized aspects of a
TV program.” (Specification 2, l. 4). To give a sense of the invention,
consider this excerpt:
As an illustration, consider the user 40 to be watching a
movie on TV. Examples of a program-level questions that the user
40 might ask include: "What is the name of the movie?", "Who
directed the movie?", and "At what time does the movie end?"
Note that the preceding program-level questions have global
context only and do not have local context. Examples of a
segment-level questions that the user 40 might ask include: "What
is the name of the actor appearing on the screen right now?", "In
what city is the current scene located?", and "Who composed the
music that is playing in the background?" Note that the preceding
segment-level questions are at the segment level and thus have
local context, since the meaning of the questions depend on the
particular program segment being dynamically viewed.
Definitionally, a question is considered to have "local context" if
its meaning depends on the particular program segment being
dynamically viewed.
(Specification, 7, l. 15)
Claim 1 and Claim 28 are exemplary:
1. A video query processing method, comprising:
providing video query processing software;
providing video content;
dynamically linking the software to the video content;
receiving by the software a query keyed to a segment of the video
content;
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