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US 9,794,211 B2Granted
Event-based comment grouping for content items
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorTawei Liao
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Abstract
A method for event-based comment grouping for content items is disclosed. The method includes identifying comments corresponding to a content item, the comments comprising playback timestamp information transformed into selectable links to access a corresponding portion of the content item during playback of the content item, dividing the content item into a plurality of time interval segments, grouping the received comments into the time interval segments based on the playback timestamp information of each comment, selecting a time interval segment of the time interval segments, and providing comments corresponding to the selected time interval segment for display during playback of the content item.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- identifying, by a processing device, multiple user comments corresponding to a content item, the user comments comprising playback timestamps identifying a portion of time in playback of the content item, the playback timestamps provided within the user comments as selectable links that, responsive to selection, cause corresponding portions of the content item to be accessed during the playback of the content item;
- dividing the content item into a plurality of time interval segments, wherein lengths of the plurality of time interval segments are dynamically determined based on:
- a time length of the content item,
- a number of the user comments that fall within each of the plurality of time interval segments, and
- a minimum time interval length;
- grouping the user comments based on the time interval segments corresponding to the playback timestamp of each user comment;
- selecting a time interval segment of the time interval segments;
- and
- providing user comments grouped for the selected time interval segment for display during playback of the content item.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a display device;
- a memory communicably coupled to the display device;
- and
- a processing device communicably coupled to the memory, the processing device to execute instructions to:
- identify multiple user comments corresponding to a content item, the user comments comprising playback timestamps identifying a portion of time in playback of the content item, the playback timestamps provided within the user comments as selectable links that, responsive to selection, cause corresponding portions of the content item to be accessed during the playback of the content item;
- divide the content item into a plurality of time interval segments, wherein lengths of the plurality of time interval segments are dynamically determined based on:
- a time length of the content item,
- a number of the user comments that fall within each of the plurality of time interval segments, and
- a minimum time interval length;
- group the user comments based on the time interval segments corresponding to the playback timestamp of each user comment;
- select a time interval segment of the time interval segments;
- and
- provide user comments grouped for the selected time interval segment for display during playback of the content item.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:
- identifying, by the processing device, multiple user comments corresponding to a content item, the user comments comprising playback timestamps identifying a portion of time in playback of the content item, the playback timestamps provided within the user comments as selectable links that, responsive to selection, cause corresponding portions of the content item to be accessed during the playback of the content item;
- dividing the content item into a plurality of time interval segments, wherein lengths of the plurality of time interval segments are dynamically determined based on:
- a time length of the content item,
- a number of the user comments that fall within each of the plurality of time interval segments, and
- a minimum time interval length;
- grouping the user comments based on the time interval segments corresponding to the playback timestamp of each user comment;
- selecting a time interval segment of the time interval segments;
- and
- providing user comments grouped for the selected time interval segment for display during playback of the content item.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processing device, a content item for playback to a viewing user;
- receiving, by the processing device, a comment section to display in conjunction with the playback of the content item, wherein the comment section comprises multiple user comments having playback timestamps identifying a portion of time in playback of the content item, the playback timestamps provided within the user comments as selectable links that, responsive to selection, cause corresponding portions of the content item to be accessed during the playback of the content item, the portion of time corresponding to a time interval segment of the content item, wherein a length of the time interval segment is dynamically determined based on:
- a time length of the content item,
- a number of the user comments that fall within the time interval segment of the content item, and
- a minimum time interval length;
- and
- displaying, during the playback of the time interval segment, the portion of the received content item for playback and the comments section to the viewing user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.