IP Library Granted Patent US 8,925,007
Granted Patent B2
US 8,925,007 · App. 14/064,124 · Granted Dec 30, 2014

Generating teasers for live performances

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Patent No.
US 8,925,007
App. No.
14/064,124
Granted
Dec 30, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A live performance is monitored by analyzing an input data stream comprising real-time updates related to the live performance. Different sets of excitement levels, excitement curves, alerts and teasers are generated based on the analysis and reported to a plurality of subscribers using any of a variety of mobile communication and/or computing devices.

Claims (38)

1. A method for generating teasers for a live performance, comprising:

monitoring a live performance;

generating different sets of teasers for the live performance, the different sets of teasers includes different teasers for different subscriber categories, the generating different sets of teasers is performed by one or more processors, wherein generating the different sets of teasers comprises:

receiving different sets of alerts related to the live performance, the different sets of alerts correspond to one or more excitement levels related to the live performance that are at or above the one or more excitement thresholds, wherein the different sets of alerts relate to different subscriber categories,

accessing one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category,

for the one or more of the alerts, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules, for the different subscriber categories, and

identifying one or more teasers from the identified one or more relevant teaser categories; and

reporting the different sets of teasers to the subscribers based on the subscriber categories, the reporting is performed by one or more processors.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying one or more teasers includes:

identifying a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories as having a highest priority, for the one or more alerts.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein reporting the different sets of teasers comprises reporting a teaser for a home team fan, a visiting team fan and a neutral fan during the live performance.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein reporting the different sets of teasers comprises displaying the different sets of teasers and the different sets of alerts related to the live performance to a plurality of subscribers on one or more display devices.

5. A method for generating teasers for a live performance, comprising:

receiving different sets of alerts related to the live performance;

accessing one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category;

for the one or more alerts, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules, for the different subscriber categories;

identifying a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories as having a highest priority, for the one or more alerts;

for at least the chosen teaser category, accessing a set of rules for identifying one or more pre-stored teasers related to the chosen teaser category, for the different subscriber categories;

of the one or more pre-stored teasers, identifying a teaser that is of a higher priority, for the different subscriber categories; and

reporting the identified teaser to a plurality of subscribers;

the receiving different sets of alerts, accessing one or more sets of rules, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories, accessing a set of rules for identifying one or more pre-stored teasers, identifying a teaser that is of a higher priority and report are performed by one or more processors.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the teasers include at least sentence fragments about the one or more alerts related to the live performance.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein identifying a teaser of a higher priority comprises assigning weights to each of the one or more pre-stored teasers, wherein the weights are determined based on a degree by which each of the one or more pre-stored teasers satisfy the rules of the chosen teaser category.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein reporting the different sets of teasers comprises displaying the different sets of teasers and the different sets of alerts related to the live performance to a plurality of subscribers on one or more display devices.

9. One or more processor readable storage devices having processor readable code embodied on the processor readable storage devices, the processor readable code for programming one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

monitoring a live performance, the monitoring comprising receiving different sets of alerts related to the live performance;

accessing one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories, the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category;

automatically generating different sets of teasers for the live performance based on the sets of rules, the different sets of teasers relate to different subscriber categories, wherein generating the different sets of teasers for the live performance comprises: for the one or more alerts, identifying one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules, for the different subscriber categories, and identifying a chosen teaser category of the relevant categories; and

reporting the different sets of teasers to a plurality of subscribers.

10. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 9 , wherein generating the different sets of teasers further comprises:

for at least the chosen teaser category, accessing a set of rules for identifying one or more pre-stored teasers related to the chosen teaser category, for the different subscriber categories; and

of the one or more pre-stored teasers identifying a teaser that is of a higher priority, for the different subscriber categories.

11. A system for generating excitement levels for a plurality of live performances comprising:

one or more storage devices storing code;

a communication interface; and

one or more processors in communication with the one or more storage devices and the communication interface, the one or more processors configured to be in communication with a plurality of client devices via the communication interface based on the code, wherein the code configures the one or more processors to monitor a live performance, generate different sets of teasers for the live performance and report the different sets of teasers to a plurality of subscribers, the different sets of teasers relate to different subscriber categories;

to generate different sets of teasers for the live performance the one or more processors are configured to receive different sets of alerts related to the live performance that correspond to one or more excitement levels related to the live performance that are at or above the one or more excitement thresholds, the one or more processors are configured to access one or more sets of rules for one or more teaser categories wherein the rules for the one or more teaser categories define whether one or more of the alerts are relevant to a respective teaser category, the one or more processors are configured to identify one or more relevant teaser categories based on the sets of rules and the one or more processors are configured to identify one or more teasers from the identified one or more relevant teaser categories.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein: the one or more processors report a teaser a home team fan, a visiting team fan and a neutral team fan related to the live performance, to the plurality of subscribers on one or more display devices.

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