Companion timeline with timeline events
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsMatthew Fuller Sly, Jeffrey Lupien, Keh-Li Sheng, Howard Benjamin Nager
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Abstract
A time-shifted digital content item is played via a playback screen, and an updateable companion timeline associated with the time-shifted digital content item is accessed. The updateable companion timeline includes one or more timeline events, and each timeline event has a trigger time corresponding to a playback time in the time-shifted digital content item. Responsive to reaching a playback time that matches a trigger time of one of the one or more timeline events during playback of the time-shifted digital content item, the timeline event having that trigger time is rendered.
Claims16
A data-holding device holding instructions executable by a logic machine to:
- play a time-shifted digital content item via a playback screen;
- access an updateable companion timeline associated with the time-shifted digital content item, the updateable companion timeline supporting one or more timeline events including a social network commentary timeline event, the social network commentary timeline event including commentary from a social network connection and having a trigger time corresponding to a playback time in the time-shifted digital content item;
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- responsive to reaching a playback time that matches the trigger time of the social network commentary timeline event during playback of the time-shifted digital content item, render the commentary from the social network connection.
A data-holding device holding instructions executable by a logic machine to:
- access an updateable companion timeline associated with a time-shifted digital content item, the updateable companion timeline supporting one or more timeline events including a social network commentary timeline event, the social network commentary timeline event including commentary from a social network connection and having a trigger time corresponding to a playback time in the time-shifted digital content item;
- responsive to reaching a playback time that matches the trigger time of the social network commentary timeline event during playback of the time-shifted digital content item, render the commentary from the social network connection on a companion screen separate from a playback screen playing the time-shifted digital content item.
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