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US 11,538,119 B2Granted
System and method of sharing content consumption information
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsThirunarayanan Srinivasan, Andrew LaGrossa, Corey Farrell, Mehul Patel
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to identifying a user consuming content so that the user can share information on a social network communication service. Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting reactions to the content and transmitting information to a social networking service associated with the user.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a computing device, a tag within content;
- causing, based on the detecting the tag, a camera to capture an image of a reaction of a user consuming the content;
- determining that the user is willing to share the reaction with a social network;
- retrieving, based on an identity of the user, authentication information for the social network;
- comparing the reaction of the user to a plurality of predefined expressions, and finding at least one matching expression;
- and
- sending, to a server of the social network:
- the authentication information;
- and
- instructions for posting, to the social network, a message indicating an identity of the content and the at least one matching expression.
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A method comprising:
- causing, based on detecting a tag within content, a camera to capture a reaction of a user consuming the content,
- wherein the tag indicates a subset of reaction types to be reported to a server of a social network;
- determining whether the subset of reaction types indicated by the tag comprises the reaction of the user;
- and
- sending, to the server of a social network and based on determining that the subset of reaction types indicated by the tag comprises the reaction of the user, the reaction.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, user preference information indicating one or more reaction types that may be shared with a social network while consuming content;
- causing, based on a tag within the content, a camera to capture images of reactions of a user consuming the content;
- determining, based on the user preference information and the captured images of reactions of the user, reactions of the user consuming the content, wherein the determined reactions of the user are of the one or more reaction types;
- retrieving, based on an identity of the user, authentication information for the social network;
- comparing the determined reactions of the user to a plurality of predefined expressions and finding a matching expression;
- and
- sending, to a server of the social network:
- the authentication information;
- and
- instructions for posting, to the social network, a message indicating an identity of the content and the matching expression.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.