WO2010010175A1

WO2010010175A1 - Method of managing and broadcasting promotional messages to a user in a multimedia system

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Publication number: WO2010010175A1
Application number: PCT/EP2009/059574
Authority: WO
Inventors: Ferline Tiard; Gilles Poplin; Harold Cornier
Original assignee: Ferline Tiard; Gilles Poplin; Harold Cornier
Priority date: 2008-07-25
Filing date: 2009-07-24
Publication date: 2010-01-28
Also published as: FR2934398A1; FR2934398B1

Abstract

The method of managing and broadcasting promotional messages to a user in a multimedia system of the type comprising broadcasting means (210), reception means (221) for receiving information streams, means for detecting a movement (232) of the user and means of processing (223,224) in relation to the broadcasting, reception and detection means, comprises steps of: selection of a promotional message to be broadcast by the processing means - detection of a relevant movement of the user by the detection means, - broadcasting, following detection, of the promotional message read through the broadcasting means for the attention of the user from the reception means.

Description

Title: Method of managing and distributing promotional messages to a user in a multimedia system

The invention relates to a method for managing and broadcasting promotional messages in a multimedia system.

For example, in the context of television, the television experience has evolved through the proliferation of content, including the proliferation of channels, the introduction of video-on-demand (VOD) for "Video On Demand" according to the English terminology), the development of interactive services that can be used via a digital television installation. At the same time, the television experience has evolved through the multiplication of consultation contexts, such as electronic devices allowing the consultation of video content (television, projector, computer, mobile phone, portable multimedia player), and therefore, habits of viewing. uses.

These different developments generate a problem of communication and audience attraction for television content broadcasters, such as television channels and operators of cable, satellite, IP television (Internet Protocol) and television by mobile phone network.

In fact, the extent of the content and services to be promoted creates a problem of prioritization of the requests to be addressed to the user. On the one hand, this need for content promotion creates a tension with the needs of conventional advertising, aimed at promoting products and services. services available outside the context of the television experience. On the other hand, the content to be promoted being themselves competing media, or being the property of competing media, it is generally impracticable to promote a content or a set of content from a competing media to the one that broadcasts them. Finally, some content generates more revenue than others and content broadcasters want to develop the audience of the most lucrative content, creating competition between their own services.

However, the linear structure of the television stream, which includes conventional advertising films, loses its relevance in terms of impact of commercials, because the choice of content to consult is vast at any time, offering a huge choice and allowing the user to continually switch from one content to another, thus decreasing its fidelity to a channel, a service, or a context of consultation.

Thus, the media have both a problem of attraction of the user, a problem of user loyalty, and a problem of multiplicity of messages to be transmitted. These problems do not find a solution in the structuring of the flow.

Content broadcasters then strive to reproduce and defer the promotion of their content to other media, such as the press, internet, mail, e-mail or SMS messages, that is to say 'away from the consultation context. As a result, the impact of the message advertising decreases, and the competition between messages is spread.

To mitigate this, they refine the targeting of promotional messages; to the classic targeting by time (time, day of the week) and by the space (the context of consultation: the support of communication, the service, program or chain in course of consultation) is added a targeting allowed by the functions software of the decoder and / or of a remote application managing a user account and connected to the decoder by network (internet, cable, telephone or other) and making it possible to analyze the context of use (user action), and / or the profile of the user (preferences, gender, age, social class, etc.), in order to increase the relevance, and therefore the impact, of the messages broadcast, and to cope with the multiplication of messages to be broadcast.

Promotional messages, although unsolicited by nature, presume that the user is interested in the information they contain. This presumption is all the more legitimate as the user can be lost in the multitude of content offers, and be the requester of promotional messages that are then assimilated to suggestions or recommendations. The art of promotion therefore consists in anticipating or shaping the user's request by presenting a promotional message when it is receptive, which corresponds, in the context of the television experience, to the moment when, and whenever he is looking for content to consult. However, targeting efforts alone do not offer a solution as to the attention that the user can bring to the promotional message in time and space, nor the opportunity that he will have to put the act into practice. or the choice that is offered by the promotional message.

In terms of time and space, by inserting interactive messages into the feed, advertisers are only extending the issue of conventional promotional films to a new format, this time interactive; they remain constrained by the context of the media and their unsolicited nature. It is then difficult to synchronize the diffusion of the message with a wait of the user.

Chances are then high that the effect of the promotional message dissolve before the user has access to the promoted content, because unlike products and services promoted by conventional commercials, television content is ephemeral and their multiplicity creates an extremely competitive context (a consumer has the choice between a dozen brands of laundry, but between thousands of contents).

Such an example of insertion of interactive messages into the stream is described in WO2007 / 149754.

An object of the invention is to provide a method for managing and disseminating information resolving the aforementioned problems related to the time and space of the dissemination of such information. For this purpose, it is provided, according to the invention, a method for managing and broadcasting promotional messages to a user in a multimedia system of the type comprising broadcasting means, means for receiving information flows, means for for detecting a movement of the user and processing means in relation to the broadcasting, reception and detection means, the method comprising steps of: selecting a promotional message to be broadcast by the detection processing means a relevant movement of the user by the detection means, diffusion, following detection, the promotional message read through the broadcast means to the user from the receiving means.

Thus, the fact of detecting a movement of the user in relation to the control means of the multimedia system makes it possible to distribute the information to the user while the latter is in an optimal temporal and spatial situation to receive this information. The information received is then considered with all possible attention of the user.

Advantageously, but optionally, the method has at least one of the following characteristics: during the selection step, said selection is performed according to one or more predetermined criteria; the predetermined criteria are chosen from among time criteria, current context of the multimedia system, including content being viewed, user profile, user preferences, priority rules and iteration of promotional messages; the promotional messages are stored on a remote server connected to the reception means; the promotional messages are retrieved by the reception means on the remote server at the time of their distribution; promotional messages are stored locally in the multimedia system; detection of the relevant movement of the user is performed when the multimedia system is in a standby state and / or walking; the method also allows a consultation of a set of promotional messages available pending broadcast and / or already broadcast; consultation is also carried out through a dedicated application; during the consultation, a predetermined specific movement of the user or another predetermined action can navigate from one promotional message to another in the set of promotional messages; during the promotional message broadcasting step, the broadcasting of said promotional message stops automatically after a predetermined duration; the promotional message broadcasting step comprises a substep of calling a function of the multimedia system from the promotional message broadcast; the method further includes a step of measuring the audience of the promotional messages broadcast; the method further comprises a step of analyzing the relevant movements of the user for identification of said user and association of mediametric data to this identification; the method comprises an additional step of sending the measurement and / or mediametric data; the promotional message is established in a format of a static visual; the promotional message is set in a format of an animated visual; the promotional message is established in a video format, with or without a soundtrack, occupying all or part of the broadcasting means, and being broadcast in combination with or as an alternative to a content being broadcast at the time of the detection of the relevant movement of the user; the promotional message is established in an audio format, whether it is broadcast in combination with or as an alternative to a sound track of a content being broadcast at the time of detection of the relevant user's movement; the method further comprises a step of providing a remote editing interface of a promotional message; the method further comprises, following the broadcast of the promotional message, a step of detecting a second relevant movement of the user resulting in the deletion of the promotional message; and, the message broadcast step is triggered following detection of the relevant motion or other predetermined action of the user other than the relevant motion detected.

II further provided, according to the invention, a multimedia system of the type comprising broadcasting means, information flow receiving means, means for detecting a movement of the user and processing means in accordance with the invention. relationship with the broadcast, reception and detection means, the multimedia system being arranged to implement a method having at least one of the above features.

Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent in the following description of an embodiment. In the accompanying drawings: FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an infrastructure intended to implement a method according to the invention; Figure 2 is a diagram of a multimedia system for implementing the method according to the invention; and, Figure 3 is a flowchart showing the information circuit according to the method according to the invention.

In introduction, a preferred field for implementing the method according to the invention is that of the TVI

(interactive television): TVI has been developed to enrich the viewing experience of television content, notably through interactive services. Expansion potential is further multiplied by the availability, if possible, of a return path, which allows for two-way communication with the user, and facilitates the transaction and customization of services.

With reference to FIG. 1, an ITV infrastructure intended to implement the method according to the invention generally consists of: a so-called remote infrastructure (100) allowing the broadcasting of television contents, and a so-called local infrastructure ( 200) forming a multimedia system comprising a device for viewing television contents

The remote infrastructure (100) includes:

A remote server for transmitting television contents to the user's television viewing device. This remote server is used by a television content broadcaster: a television service provider, a cable operator, a satellite operator, the Internet, using an analogue or digital transmission mode, wired or wireless, and whether or not meeting GPRS, UMTS, EDGE standards, and any other actor in the broadcast of television content. To this remote server, can be added one or more servers that send the media information to the remote server and possibly receive back. These servers may be used by the television content broadcaster or by its television content publisher partners.

It should be noted that the television contents are of the video and / or audio and / or editorial and / or application data type, this includes without limitation: streams of audio and video television content broadcast in real time by cable, satellite, waves radios, etc., and all forms of advertisements, static pages, multimedia contents, interactive applications as well as the attributes of these contents, for example a link between video and editorial data, in the form of a marker inserted in the stream or other.

An incoming network (300) through which an incoming signal transmitted by the remote server flows. The incoming signal may be digital (in "mpeg" format, for example) or analog and will be transmitted under at least one of the known data transfer standards (DVB, including all its DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB H, DVB-T, DVB-IPTV etc., ATSC, ISDB-T, AVC and SVC in particular, and all public standards or proprietary TV broadcast content) and supported by a Analogue antenna, satellite, analogue or digital cable, CTV, SDV or DBS, fiber optic and any type of signal coming from a network such as the internet, ie any infrastructure enabling a consultation device television contents to receive a signal from the remote server.

An outgoing network (310), generally referred to as "return path". The return channel allows the consultation device to communicate with the remote server via the telephone line, a cable bandwidth, IP (Internet Protocol), or other ... The data transmitted by way of return can constitute a transaction, a request for information, a request for access to a content, in particular on the basis of a "Universal Resource Locator" (URL for "universal resource locator") associated with a solicitation offered to the user and which gives an internet address from which the content can be downloaded, or a request to modify the user account concerning his subscription or his preferences, a participation in a vote or a game, or even mediametric results (audience measurement, identification of the moments consultation, analysis of consultation habits, etc.). The data transmitted by way of return can be explicitly triggered by the user, or implicitly within the framework of the use of one of the functionalities of the consultation device, or without his knowledge (but without opposition of its part) for technical maintenance or mediametric data.

The local infrastructure (200) includes, for its part: • A decoder (221) comprising: o A tuner, which receives the signal flowing through the incoming network, isolates a particular frequency, and transmits the data of this frequency to a processor and / or memory, o A modulator-demodulator, which allows the dialogue of the decoder with the remote servers by the incoming or outgoing networks, whatever the type of connection: coaxial, USB, serial,

Ethernet, satellite, etc., interpreting the data to make them usable for viewing content. o A processor, which may be of the micro processor type or a similar type of electronic component. This processor allows the operation of the coded programs of the software as well as the applications of the functions of the decoder. When a user activates an interactive function during its consultation, the processor searches the memory for the addresses of the contents associated with the action, these addresses are retransmitted to a graphics card and a card are intended to read the contents thus located. The contents are then broadcast to using means of diffusion, like a screen for example. o A memory (222,400), which is physical (hard disk, optical disk, flash memory, or other) or virtual memory or a combination of both. Its technology is of the volatile type (RAM) in a non-limiting way: DRAM, EDRAM, SRAM, IT-SRAM or Z-RAM, or non-volatile (ROM) in a non-limiting way: PROM, EPROM, EEPROM. Or a combination of both: FeRAM, MRAM, NRAM, PRAM.

It will either be contained in the decoder, or on an external disk connectable to the decoder locally on a USB port, Ethernet, firewire or other, or on a remote server and connected to the decoder, the content addresses may be local or relative to access in the memory of the decoder or connected disk, or external to access the memory of a remote server. The incoming information (the television contents and / or the addresses of these contents) supported can be stored in the memory either at a non-penalizing moment for the user, for example while the decoder is in standby mode, or at the same time as content that he is consulting, or be sent to him in the course of consultation packets of information. The loading of this information may or may not result from a request that it has issued by the return channel. o A receiver for transmitting to the processor the signals received as a result of an action of the user on one of the commands of the decoder or its control device.

• A control device (230), such as a remote control, typically comprising: o push buttons and possibly other manipulative tools such as a surface sensitive to touch or movement (232), a trigger, a wheel, an accelerometer, etc. which allow the user to act on the television contents which are proposed to him on the screen. o a control signal transmitter, generally infrared or radio frequency or radio in the case of a remote control, which communicates with the receiver of the decoder. Any device supporting a radiotelephone technology whatever the standard or the generation.

• A screen (210), typically a television monitor, regardless of size, definition, display technology (cathodic or digital, LCD, plasma, etc.), or a projector, or a screen integrated with a device in the case of a PDA, a mobile phone, a portable media player, or a laptop.

For some television viewing devices, the different components of the decoder are integrated in a device also comprising a screen and / or a control device, such as a PDA, a mobile phone, a portable media player, or a laptop. Similarly, the control device is integrated in the device, especially in the case of a PDA, a mobile phone, a portable media player, or a laptop, or use a communication protocol more sophisticated allowing the transmission of more precise or complex or fast commands, such as for example a joystick or a computer mouse, whether physically connected to the device by a USB cable, or a proprietary format cable, or transmit wireless commands, using a protocol wifi, Bluetooth, or other.

In general, the invention is applicable but not exclusively to any system for viewing multimedia content, including television.

According to the invention, the messages are distributed to devices for their consultation. Their display or reading is triggered by a movement of the user. If the user is not interested in the message, it is possible to disqualify it by a new movement, or by using another command of the consultation device. If it is interested, it is then possible to validate the functionality proposed by the message using a usual command of the consultation device (typically the "OK" button, or another button or manipulative tool used for validation, or dedicated validation and management of messages promotional, or presented by the message as validating the function of the message).

Such consultation devices form a multimedia system or an apparatus: equipped with a screen or a loudspeaker, allowing the emission of a promotional message in the form of an image, or a video, or a soundtrack, or text, or animation, or a combination of these elements. - connected to a public or private network (cable, satellite, internet, telephony or similar) allowing the dissemination of data (text and / or image and / or sound and / or video and / or animation) constituting the promotional message, as well as attributes of these data and / or software commands associated with this data and usable by the device.

In one possible application of the invention, the consultation device makes it possible to consult television contents and understood as being: a television set

- a set-top box, modem, computer or other device connecting a broadcast network of television contents to a screen - a remote control with a screen and / or controlling a device with a screen and / or a loudspeaker

- a landline or mobile phone a portable media player or not

- a laptop - a games console a PDA (electronic personal assistant)

- a combination of the devices created. However, this consultation device can be applied to a device or a system having another vocation, but having the same opportunity to capture the user's attention on the basis of a movement made in connection with the device or the device. system and as part of the normal use of the device or system.

The global infrastructure includes, among others: - a motion detector (232), which can be located in the consultation device if it is portable (such as a mobile phone, a portable media player), or in a device ordered

(as a remote control, joystick, mouse), or in an external object related to the apparatus and / or the user that identifies a relevant movement for the use of the invention

a remote server (100) connected to the consultation device, from which the promotional messages are sent. These messages can be broadcast to the decoder integrated in the audio-video stream, or in a data format different from the audio-video stream, or else using another channel of data transmission, for example the IP channel of a hybrid cable decoder. . an application translating the method according to the invention, for example in the form of software, located in the consultation device and allowing at least to trigger the display and erasure, or reading and stopping playback of a promotional message stored in the device or on a server connected to the device, and communicate with a server remote through which the promotional messages to be broadcast.

Optionally, the application also makes it possible: to apply sorting criteria stated by the publisher (s) to the promotional messages to refine the relevance of the choice of promotional message to be displayed, according to the time (time, day of the week, date, expiration of the message), the consultation context

(media being consulted), the user's profile (age, gender, social class, preferences, habits, etc.), priority rules (such as an auction system, a message importance criterion, etc. ) and iteration of the promotional messages (recurrence of the display), or other criteria deemed relevant to select the promotional message to be displayed, to launch a function of the consultation device (such as zapping, recording, launching an application, initiating a transaction, or any function normally fulfilled by the device) from the promotional message. to consult all the available promotional messages and / or the history of the promotional messages diffused, either from a promotional message during its diffusion, or from a dedicated application and accessible since the ordinary navigation of the device, for example from the menu of the device - to apply user preferences to the selection of promotional messages, as a thematic criterion (sport, cinema, novelties, special offers, etc.), a promotional message publisher criteria (service operator, third party such as a magazine publisher, a trademark, a production company, an association, etc.), a display criterion (duration and transparency of the display, amplitude movement required to trigger the display and erasing or reading and stopping of a promotional message) of measuring the audience of the promotional messages (which have been presented, followed by a user action, searched in the history, how many were presented, etc.) and to transmit these measurements by way of return.

The movement for triggering the display / erasure or reading / stopping of a promotional message is characterized by a predetermined minimum amplitude and / or energy according to the normal use of the consultation device. , so that the trigger is controllable by the user. In this case, it must be possible to prevent triggering in the context of a controlled movement, avoid normal handling of the consultation device or the control device (eg pressing the keys), and should be avoided for an involuntary movement of the hand like a tremor.

Referring to Figure 2, we will describe in more detail the overall infrastructure for implementing the method according to the invention. The remote infrastructure (100) is composed of one or more servers including managers for editing and / or dissemination of data and software applications. These different managers provide remote management of the maintenance (110) of the operating system (220) of the local infrastructure (200), the broadcasting of audio-video content (120) to the local infrastructure (200), broadcasting the editorial data relating to the contents and services (130) offered by the local infrastructure (200), and for implementing the method according to the invention, the remote infrastructure also allows the dissemination of promotional messages, and attributes of these promotional messages (140). Alternatively, the remote infrastructure includes an on-demand content manager (150) for customizing access to the content and services according to the users, and / or a user account manager (160) to know the particular consumption of each user and personalize the content and services offer and the editorial data offer according to the users.

The remote infrastructure (100) is connected to the local infrastructure (200) via the incoming network (300), which is embodied by optical, telephone, coaxial, or other cables, or by a wireless satellite signal, GSM , UMTS, GPRS, EDGE, or any other suitable protocol.

The data relating to system maintenance (110) is exploited by the operating system (220) of the local infrastructure (200), and provide for upgrading and updating.

The audio-video streams (120) are interpreted by the components of the decoder (221), namely a processor, a tuner and / or a demodulator, and optionally a decryption system (or access control), and are relayed to the receiver. screen (210) for real-time consumption.

The editorial data (130) is stored in the memory of the local infrastructure, which can be a cache memory (222) in the case of a system that does not have a hard disk, or a durable memory (400) when the one it is available. This durable memory is a mass storage type memory, such as a hard disk or SSD (for "Solid State Drive" in English terminology) called "flash memory". The editorial data is exploited by the interactive applications of the local infrastructure (223). This editorial data (130) is relayed to the graphic plane (212) of the screen (210) by the applications (223) as a result of a user action on the buttons and manipulator tools (231) of the control device (230). ). These actions are transmitted via the command transmitter (233) to the command receiver (225). These actions allow the applications (223) to select the data to be exploited (130) stored in the cache (222) or durable (400).

The promotional messages are transmitted to the cache memory (220) according to the consumption of these messages. Between the remote infrastructure (100) and the infrastructure local (200), they can be stored in memory

(400) available in the local infrastructure (200) or on a server of the remote infrastructure (100), and transmitted to the cache memory (222) at the request of the promotional message application (224) present in the local infrastructure (200), so that a message is always immediately available for reading on the graphical plane (212) of the screen (210) upon receipt of a command by the receiver (225) transmitted via the control transmitter (233) by the control device (230) following a signal sent by the motion detector (232).

The promotional message application (224) calls the following messages directly to the durable memory (400) if the addressing data is available in the cache memory (222), or via the promotional message store (140) of the remote infrastructure (100) if the promotional message addressing data is there. The triggering of a promotional message by motion detected by the motion detector (232) is conditioned by a prioritization rule (227) defining the priority of the interactive applications

(223) on the application of promotional messages (224). It is for example enacted that the promotional messages are displayed only if no interactive application (223) is active in the graphical plane (212) of the screen (210).

Attributes of the on-demand content (150) are transmitted to the local infrastructure (200) to be operated by an interactive application of the content-on-demand group (223).

Following a user action on the elements (231) of the control device (230) transmitted via the command transmitter (233) and the command receiver (225) allowing an application (223) to confirm a transaction to the In the profile application (226), the profile application (226) transmits to the user data manager (160) via the outgoing network (310) a command for triggering the on-demand contents (150). This triggering command consists of either broadcasting the contents on demand (150) to the elements of the decoder (221) which relay them to the video plane (211) of the screen (210), or to the authorization given to the decryption element of the decoder (221) read the contents previously made available on the durable memory (400) or being broadcast in audio-video stream format (120).

The user data manager (160) can collect the data transmitted by the profile application (226) and including transactions, mediametric elements measuring the interest of the user for the various services offered via the local infrastructure (200). ), and preferences formulated by the user through the profile application (226). Alternatively, the user data manager (160) returns feedback criteria to the profile application (226). These data are available and accessible for interactive applications (223) to select editorial data (130) or for the application of promotional messages (224) for selecting promotional messages (140).

Alternatively, the application of promotional messages (224) exploits data intended for interactive applications (223) (especially to cross promotional messages with available editorial information), or data from the decoder (221) (including the time destination actual video plan, and scope of decryption items) or profile application

(226) (including recommendations) to select which messages to display.

The promotional messages (140) may contain a software command line operable by one of the elements of the operating system (220) such that a user action on a button (231) of the controller (230) issued by the emitter (233), while a promotional message is presented on a graphical plane (212) of the screen (210), triggers a usual functionality of the operating system (220). For example, a user action, by this means, triggers the display of editorial data (130) by one of the interactive applications (223), or initiates the transaction managed by the application of on-demand content included in the interactive applications ( 223), or triggers a channel change by the decoder (221), etc.

Alternatively, the durable memory (400) includes a hard disk included in the local infrastructure (200) either by the normal composition of the local infrastructure, or by adding an external hard disk connected to the local infrastructure by USB cable, Firewire, Ethernet or WiFi network, or other, or else, consist of a location on a remote server, dedicated or not to the user of the infrastructure local. In this second case, the durable memory (400) is included as included in the remote infrastructure (100).

With reference to FIG. 3, we will describe in more detail the circuit of the promotional messages during the implementation of the method according to the invention.

In a first step, the consultation device of the local infrastructure (200) connected to a promotional message server (140) receives (010) and stores (011) at least one promotional message in a local memory, for example the memory cache (222), at the request of the promotional message application (224). The availability of this promotional message authorizes the application of promotional messages (224) to remain active (012) in the background of the operating system (220), waiting (013) of a trigger command issued by the detector of movement (232) and transmitted by the command transmitter (233) from the control device (230) to the operating system control receiver (225) (220).

During this waiting period, the application of the promotional messages (224) crosses, if this function is available, attributes of the promotional messages available with contextual criteria (015) retrieved from the decoder (221) (content or service in progress), or interactive applications (223) including the clock, or the profile application (226), and at the end of this crossing, update the available promotional message (014) (ie the replace with another), so as to optimize the relevance of the choice of the promotional message in the context thus defined.

Upon receipt of a trigger command (020), the promotional message application (224) displays (022) the promotional message selected in (014), on the one hand, and, on the other hand, queues an order applicable to the currently displayed message, which is either a commit command (024) or an erase command (023). In addition, the promotional message application (224) prepares the following promotional message (021), possibly by crossing the attributes of the available promotional messages with contextual criteria (015).

If, following the display of the promotional message (022), the application of promotional messages (224) receives (034) a validation command of the promotional message, the application of promotional messages (224) activates (044) then the function associated with said promotional message.

If, following the display of the promotional message (022), the application of promotional messages (224) receives (033) a deletion command of the promotional message, the application of promotional messages (224) erases (043) said promotional message of the local memory in which it was stored. Then, the application of promotional messages (224) is placed in a waiting state of a command to display a promotional message next

(031), the following promotional message having been previously prepared (021). Upon receipt of the display command of the next promotional message (041), the application of promotional messages (224) displays

(022) the next promotional message prepared, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, waits for an order applicable to the currently displayed message, which is either a commit command (024) or a command of erasure (023). In addition, the promotional message application (224) prepares the following promotional message (021), possibly by crossing the attributes of the available promotional messages with contextual criteria (015).

The process thus loops as long as promotional messages are available or the user indicates in one way or another that he no longer wishes to consult new promotional messages.

Examples of implementation of the process according to the invention

Example 1: A user watches television content on a channel A. This content does not interest him, and the user enters the remote control in order to search for other content to consult. The handshake movement of the remote control triggers the display of a promotional message superimposed with the current video content. This promotional message invites the user to view different content on a television channel B. The user is tempted by this suggestion. It validates the message by pressing the validation button. The process normally specified as part of the device for changing channels is started, and the television content of channel A is replaced by that of channel B, and the promotional message disappears.

Example 2: A user watches TV content on a channel A. This content does not interest him, and the user enters the remote control in order to search for other content to view. The movement of the remote control activates the display of a promotional message superimposed with the video content. This promotional message invites the user to view different content on a television channel B. The user is not interested in this suggestion. It agitates, for example, again the remote control and the promotional message disappears. It uses another function of the remote control to change channels.

Example 3: A user watches television content on a channel A. This content does not interest him, and the user enters the remote control for the purpose of searching for other content to view. The movement of the remote control activates the display of a promotional message superimposed with the video content. This promotional message invites the user to view different content on a television channel B. The user is not interested in this suggestion. It agitates, for example, again the remote control and the promotional message disappears. he again, and a new message appears, informing it of a promotion on video-on-demand content C. The user is tempted by this suggestion. It validates the message by pressing the validation button. The process normally specified in the device for a video-on-demand content purchase transaction is initiated for the content C (for example entering a PIN code).

Of course, many modifications can be made to the invention without departing from the scope thereof. For example, promotional messages are broadcast through an audio system.

Claims

A multimedia system comprising information flow receiving means (221), processing means (223,224), user movement detecting means (232) and broadcasting means (210), characterized in that the broadcasting means are arranged to broadcast a message, especially promotional, to the attention of the user from the receiving means following a detection of a relevant movement of the user by the means of detection, the message to be broadcast being selected by the processing means.

2. System according to claim 1, characterized in that the message to be broadcast is selected by the processing means according to one or more predetermined criteria.

3. System according to claim 2, characterized in that the predetermined criteria are selected from time criteria, current context of the multimedia system, including the content being viewed, the profile of the user, preferences of the user, priority rules and iteration of promotional messages.

4. System according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the messages are stored on a remote server connected to the receiving means.

5. System according to claim 4, characterized in that the messages are retrieved by the receiving means on the remote server at the time of their broadcast.

6. System according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that it further comprises storage means for locally storing the messages.

7. System according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the detection of the relevant movement of the user is performed when the system is in a state of sleep and / or walk.

8. System according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that it is arranged to allow further consultation of a set of available messages awaiting broadcast and / or already broadcast.

9. System according to claim 8, characterized in that the consultation is performed, in addition, through a dedicated application.

10. System according to claim 8, characterized in that, during the consultation, a predetermined specific movement of the user or another predetermined action to navigate from one message to another in the set of messages.

11. System according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the diffusion means are arranged to automatically stop the broadcast of said message after a predetermined time.

12. System according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that, during the broadcast of the message, the processing means are arranged so as to be able to call a function of said multimedia system from the broadcast message.

13. System according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized in that the processing means are arranged to further perform an audience measurement broadcast messages.

14. System according to one of claims 1 to 13, characterized in that the processing means are arranged to further perform a relevant analysis of the movements of the user for identification of said user and association of data mediametrically to this identification.

15. System according to one of claims 13 or 14, characterized in that the processing means are arranged to further perform a sending of the measurement and / or mediametric data.

16. System according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the message is established in a format of a static visual.

17. System according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the message is established in a format of an animated visual.

18. System according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the message is established in a video format, with or without a soundtrack, occupying all or part of the broadcasting means, and being broadcast in combination with or alternatively with a content being broadcast at the time of detection of the relevant user's movement.

19. System according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the message is established in an audio format, it is broadcast in combination with or alternatively to a sound track of a content being broadcast at moment of detection of the relevant movement of the user.

20. System according to one of claims 1 to 19, characterized in that the processing means are arranged to further provide a remote editing interface of a message.

21. System according to one of claims 1 to 20, characterized in that the processing means are arranged to further perform, following the dissemination of the promotional message, the processing of a detection of a second relevant movement. of the user causing the message of the broadcast means to be erased.

22. System according to one of claims 1 to 21, characterized in that it is arranged so that the broadcast of the message is triggered following the detection of the relevant movement or to another predetermined action of the user different from the movement relevant detected.