Program guide based on sharing personal comments about multimedia content
AssigneeVMTV, Inc.
InventorsDavid D. Lee, Jaegeun Lim, Dongcheol Jeong, Youngwoon Yoon
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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.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method for sharing video between members of an existing Internet-based social network service (SNS), the method comprising:
- sharing a discussion thread about a video between member(s) of an existing Internet-based social network, the discussion thread containing comments attached to video bookmarks that mark time points during the video, the marked time points corresponding to the comments, the video bookmark including a thumbnail of a frame of the video from the marked time point, the video provided to the members by a video source, and the video bookmarks maintained by a metadata service;
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- in response to a member activating a video bookmark, causing the video source to play the video for the member from the time point corresponding to the video bookmark;
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- wherein the metadata service is operated by an entity different than entities operating the social network service and the video source.
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 sharing video between members of an existing Internet-based social network service (SNS), the computer program code performing the steps of:
- sharing a discussion thread about a video between member(s) of an existing Internet-based social network, the discussion thread containing comments attached to video bookmarks that mark time points during the video, the marked time points corresponding to the comments, the video bookmark including a thumbnail of a frame of the video from the marked time point, the video provided to the members by a video source, and the video bookmarks maintained by a metadata service;
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- in response to a member activating a video bookmark, causing the video source to play the video for the member from the time point corresponding to the video bookmark;
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- wherein the metadata service is operated by an entity different than entities operating the social network service and the video source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.