Media object query submission and response
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsGaurav Garg, Abhishek Bapna
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Abstract
Methods and systems for submitting media object queries and receiving suggested answers for the media object queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a first user a first media object and a first query relating to content in the first media object, presenting the first media object and the first query to multiple second users, receiving a suggested answer to the first query from each of two or more second users of the multiple second users, where at least two of the suggested answers are distinct, ranking the suggested answers, and presenting one or more of the ranked suggested answers to the first user.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a user device of a first user, a media object and a query associated with the media object, wherein the query requests information related to content presented in the media object;
- providing for presentation the media object and the query to a plurality of second users different from the first user;
- receiving a suggested answer to the query from one or more second users of the plurality of second users, wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either (i) a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the query or (ii) associated with a previous suggested answer to the query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the query;
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- providing for presentation one or more of the suggested answers to the first user.
A system comprising:
- one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a user device of a first user, a media object and a query associated with the media object, wherein the query requests information related to content presented in the media object;
- providing for presentation the media object and the query to a plurality of second users different from the first user;
- receiving a suggested answer to the query from one or more second users of the plurality of second users, wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either (i) a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the query or (ii) associated with a previous suggested answer to the query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the query and
- providing for presentation one or more of the suggested answers to the first user.
A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a user device of a first user, a media object and a query associated with the media object, wherein the query requests information related to content presented in the media object;
- providing for presentation the media object and the query to a plurality of second users different from the first user;
- receiving a suggested answer to the query from one or more second users of the plurality of second users, wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either (i) a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the query or (ii) associated with a previous suggested answer to the query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the query;
- and
- providing for presentation one or more of the suggested answers to the first user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.