Shared Multimedia Experience Including User Input
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsCharles Varnon Scott, Ankur Mukerji, Scott Anthony White
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Abstract
Systems provide shared multimedia content to a plurality of members of a collaboration group, request input related to the multimedia content from a portion of the plurality of members, modify the shared multimedia content to include an indication of a portion of the input, and provide the modified shared multimedia content to the plurality of members. The shared multimedia content may include a television program, a movie, or a real-time event. The requested input may include a prediction or a trivia answer related to the shared multimedia content.
Claims22
1-27. (canceled)
A multimedia distribution method comprising:
- providing multimedia content to a plurality of network clients via a multimedia network;
- accessing user profiles corresponding to at least some of the network clients;
- identifying, from collaboration group information included in at least some of the user profiles, a plurality of collaboration groups and a plurality of members of each of the collaboration groups;
- sending a question pertaining to the multimedia content to each of the collaboration groups;
- evaluating responses to the question;
- and
- determining, based on the evaluating of the responses, a winning response for each of the collaboration groups.
A data processing system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory computer readable medium including processor executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- providing multimedia content to a plurality of network clients via a multimedia network;
- accessing user profiles corresponding to at least some of the network clients;
- identifying, from collaboration group information included in at least some of the user profiles, a plurality of collaboration groups and a plurality of members of each of the collaboration groups;
- sending a question pertaining to the multimedia content to each of the collaboration groups;
- evaluating responses to the question;
- and
- determining, based on the evaluating of the responses, a winning response for each of the collaboration groups.
A non-transitory computer readable medium, including processor executable program instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- providing multimedia content to a plurality of network clients via a multimedia network;
- accessing user profiles corresponding to at least some of the network clients;
- identifying, from collaboration group information included in at least some of the user profiles, a plurality of collaboration groups and a plurality of members of each of the collaboration groups;
- sending a question pertaining to the multimedia content to each of the collaboration groups;
- evaluating responses to the question;
- and
- determining, based on the evaluating of the responses, a winning response for each of the collaboration groups.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.