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US 9,432,706 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for transmitting media content
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsLinda Roberts, E-Lee Chang, Ja-Young Sung, Natasha Barrett Schultz, Robert King
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Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving a plurality of user-generated comments associated with media content where the plurality of user-generated comments are temporally associated with a portion of the media content during a presentation of the media content at a group of communication devices, and identifying from the plurality of user-generated comments a cluster of comments associated with a segment of the media content based on a frequency of the user-generated comments. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- providing, by a system including a processor, media content to a group of communication devices, wherein each communication device of the group of communication devices is configured to present a plurality of user-generated comments associated with the media content in an overlay over the media content during a presentation of the media content;
- receiving, by the system, the plurality of user-generated comments associated with the media content being presented at the group of communication devices, wherein the plurality of user-generated comments are annotated to the media content;
- transmitting, by the system, the plurality of user-generated comments to be presented in the overlay to the group of communication devices during the providing of the media content;
- determining, by the system, a frequency of the plurality of user-generated comments;
- identifying, by the system, from the plurality of user-generated comments, a cluster of comments associated with a segment of the media content responsive to the frequency of the plurality of user-generated comments exceeding a threshold;
- receiving, by the system, user input that indicates a selection of a range of interest in the segment;
- identifying, by the system, a sample segment according to the range of the segment of the media content that is to be transmitted to the group of communication devices;
- and
- transmitting, by the system, the sample segment to the group of communication devices, wherein the group of communication devices present the sample segment along with the plurality of user-generated comments.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a memory that stores instructions;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the at least one processor performs operations comprising:
- providing media content to a group of communication devices, wherein each communication device of the group of communication devices is configured to present user-generated comments in an overlay over the media content during presentations of the media content;
- receiving a plurality of user-generated comments associated with the media content, wherein the plurality of user-generated comments are annotated to the media content during the presentations of the media content by each communication device of the group of communication devices;
- transmitting the plurality of user-generated comments to be presented in the overlay to the group of communication devices during the providing of the media content;
- determining a frequency of the plurality of user-generated comments;
- identifying, from the plurality of user-generated comments, a cluster of comments associated with a segment of the media content responsive to the frequency of the plurality of user-generated comments exceeding a threshold;
- receiving, from user input, a range of interest in the segment;
- identifying a sample segment according to the range of the segment of the media content that is to be transmitted to a recipient device of the group of communication devices;
- and
- transmitting the sample segment to the recipient device.
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A non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium, comprising instructions, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, a processor performs operations comprising:
- receiving a plurality of user-generated comments associated with media content, wherein the plurality of user-generated comments are annotated to the media content during a presentation of the media content by a group of communication devices, wherein each communication device of the group of communication devices is configured to present the plurality of user-generated comments in an overlay over the media content during the presentation of the media content;
- determining a frequency of the plurality of user-generated comments;
- identifying, from the plurality of user-generated comments, a cluster of comments associated with a segment of the media content responsive to the frequency of the plurality of user-generated comments exceeding a threshold;
- receiving user input of a range of interest in the segment;
- identifying a sample segment according to the range of the segment of the media content that is to be transmitted to a recipient device;
- and
- transmitting the sample segment to the recipient device to be presented as the media content with the overlay.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.