Google patents showing preview images while you wait for video to load
Google has been granted a patent for a system that shows users relevant images while they wait for their requested video or media to start playing. The system analyzes the user's request to find the main topic, then pulls up matching pictures to keep the viewer engaged during the loading time.
In the filing’s own words
This document describes systems and techniques for presenting intermediate media to a user that has presented a media request. In aspects, a media request for requested media is received from an input device. The media request is provided to a media service to serve the requested media to a requested device. The media request is processed to identify attributes of the media request indicative of a subject matter of the requested media. Based on the identified attributes of the media request, intermediate media is accessed including one or more images related to the identified attributes. The intermediate media is delivered to the requested device. Accordingly, the intermediate media provides content to engage the user while the user waits for the requested media to be delivered.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: receiving a media request for requested media, the media request received from an input device; providing the media request to a media service to serve the requested media to a requested device; processing the media request to identify attributes of the media request indicative of a subject matter of the requested media, the processing the media request including parsing: the media request received from the input device; and a trigger derived from the media request, the trigger intended for directing the media request to the requested device to prepare the requested device for presenting content responsive to the media request; based on the identified attributes of the media request, accessing intermediate media including one or more images related to the identified attributes; and delivering the intermediate media to the requested device.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Delivery of intermediate media during retrieval of requested media
- Patent number
- US12771888B2
- Application number
- 18883440
- Filed
- Sep 12, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 36
Classified under
H04N 21/25 Electricity & electronicsG06F 16/432 Physics & computingG06T 11/00 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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