Social Data Associated with Bookmarks to Multimedia Content
AssigneeVMTV, Inc.
InventorsDavid D. Lee, Jaegeun Lim, Dongcheol Jeong, Youngwoon Yoon, Michael Ken Minakami, Chien Lim
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Abstract
Members of a social network service may share real-time comments about multimedia content they are viewing. The comments are attached to bookmarks that allow other members to view the video and add to the discussion thread.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method for providing promotional information relating to a video, the method comprising:
- providing a video bookmark relating to a video to a member of an Internet-based social network services (SNS) from another member of the SNS according to privacy rules of the SNS, wherein the video bookmark marks a time point in the video and activating the video bookmark causes playback of the video from the marked time point;
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- additionally providing to the SNS member promotional data relating to the marked time point in the video, wherein the promotional information is attached to the provided video bookmark.
A computer program product for use with a computer, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer program code embodied therein for providing promotional information relating to a video, the computer program code performing the steps of:
- providing a video bookmark relating to a video to a member of an Internet-based social network services (SNS) from another member of the SNS according to privacy rules of the SNS, wherein the video bookmark marks a time point in the video and activating the video bookmark causes playback of the video from the marked time point;
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- additionally providing to the SNS member promotional data relating to the marked time point in the video, wherein the promotional information is attached to the provided video bookmark.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.