US 2022/0286750 A1 · REMINDERS OF MEDIA CONTENT REFERENCED IN OTHER MEDIA CONTENT

Abstract

A method at a computing system includes: receiving a request from a user; and in response to the user request: identifying a first media content item playing on a first client device concurrently with the user request, identifying a playback position in the first media content item temporally proximate to the user request, identifying a reference to an entity within a content portion of the first media content item, where the content portion corresponds to the identified playback position, identifying an event associated with the referenced entity, and setting a reminder of the event for the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

at a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors:
receiving, from a first device, (i) a user request that references an entity and (ii) content information including one or more portions of audio and/or video components of media detected by the first device, the media having originated from a third party content provider independent of the server system;
and
in response to receiving the user request and the content information from the first device, matching the content information received from the first device to a portion of content stored in the server system and identifying the entity in the media content item based on the matching.

1 more element

A server system, comprising:

one or more processors;
memory;
and
one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
receiving, from a first device, (i) a user request that references an entity and (ii) content information including one or more portions of audio and/or video components of media detected by the first device, the media having originated from a third party content provider independent of the server system;
and
in response to receiving the user request and the content information from the first device, matching the content information received from the first device to a portion of content stored in the server system and identifying the entity in the media content item based on the matching.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/825,270Filed 26 May 2022

Priority

19 Nov 2015

Published

8 Sep 2022

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04N 21/47214
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G06F 16/43
Of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data: querying
H04N 21/44008
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering…
H04N 21/44226
Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing: on social networks

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