System and method for arranging and presenting interactive preshow sessions to an audience

摘要

Methods and systems for presenting interactive content, to members of an audience having visible access to a common display screen, as part of a pre-show that precedes presentation of featured display content. Social network messages are received at a server. Each of the messages originates at, and is received from, one of a plurality of mobile devices executing a client application. The server forwards at least some of the received messages to a projector, which in turn projects the messages to the display screen as posts within a social network “page”. Concurrently, the received messages are transmitted over a wireless local area network to mobile terminals executing the client application. The client application initiates display of the messages within a corresponding social network page. A resource identifier (e.g. HTML link) within a message enables viewing of supplemental content at the discretion and initiative of each individual mobile terminal user.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method for arranging and presenting interactive preshow sessions to an audience, comprising:
receiving a plurality of social network messages, each originating from one of a plurality of mobile devices executing a client application, wherein at least some users of the mobile devices have visible access to a group display screen during a pre-show preceding a feature presentation; forwarding at least some of the social network messages to a projector; projecting at least some of the social network messages to the group display screen for viewing by all members of an audience as part of the pre-show; and selecting a subset of the received plurality of social network messages for the projecting, wherein selecting the subset includes applying a context filter comprising at least one variable exclusion criterion based on at least one of an audience acceptability rating of the feature presentation or a time of day of the pre-show.