Video commentary

• US 10,171,522 B1
• Filed: 01/13/2012
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Liu, Sean, Singhal, Nikhyl
• Primary Examiner(s): Rahman, SM A
• Application Number:
  US13/350,121
• Time in Patent Office: 2,545 Days
• Field of Search: 386230, 725 13, 709204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/15 Synchronised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and system for video commentary is described. A method may comprise providing particular media content to two or more user computing devices. The method may further comprise receiving, from a first user computing device of the two or more user computing devices, a selection to view comments from a second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The method may also comprise receiving one or more comments from the second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The one or more comments from the second user computing device may be associated with video media content. The method may additionally comprise transmitting the one or more comments from the second user computing device to the first user computing device based upon, at least in part, the selection from the first user computing device to view the comments.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, at a computing device associated with a viewing user, video media content, wherein the viewing user is a member of a social network;

displaying, at the computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a media display portion for the video media content and a comment display portion for comments received from one or more other users, wherein the GUI further includes at least one user selectable option to selectively display comments from the one or more other users;

playing, at the computing device, the video media content; and

receiving, at the computing device via the at least one user selectable option of the GUI, a first selection of a first set of the one or more other users who are members of the social network,

wherein the first selection indicates a request of the viewing user to view comments associated with the first set of the one or more other users,

wherein one or more of the comments associated with the first set of the one or more other users are displayed in the comment display portion of the GUI in response to receiving the first selection.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the computing device a request from the user selectable option of the GUI, a second selection of a second set of other users, wherein the second set of other users includes at least one of the one or more other users and the second selection indicates a request of the viewing user to not view comments associated with the second set of other users, wherein one or more comments associated with the video media content and from the second set of other users are not displayed.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first selection is received while the video media content is playing.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, at the computing device, a social network proximity option, wherein the social network proximity option indicates a social network proximity of a respective ones of the one or more other users with the viewing user in the social network.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, at the computing device, a physical proximity option, wherein the physical proximity option indicates a geographic distance of the respective computer devices of the one or more other users from the computing device of the viewing user.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving, at the computing device, a third selection via the social network proximity option, the third selection being indicative of the user selecting the social network proximity option; and

displaying, at the computing device, a list of the one or more other users matching the selected social network proximity option,

wherein the first selection of the first set of the one or more other users is received from the user selecting the first set of the one or more other users from the list.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing, at the computing device, a video chat application, wherein the GUI is associated with the video chat application;

receiving, at the computing device, one or more video streams associated with the one or more other users, respectively; and

displaying, at the computing device, the one or more video streams and the video media content in the GUI concurrently.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the comment display portion comprises an overlay of the media display portion associated with a captioning feature of a media player that is playing the video media content.

9. A computer program product residing on a nontransitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a computing device having one or more processors and being associated with a viewing user, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving video media content;

displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a media display portion for the video media content and a comment display portion for comments received from one or more other users, wherein the GUI further includes at least one user selectable option to selectively display comments from the one or more other users;

playing the video media content; and

receiving, from the user via the user selectable option of the GUI, a first selection of a first set of the one or more other users who are members of a same social network of which the viewing user is a member, wherein the first selection indicates a request of the viewing user to view comments associated with the first set of the one or more other users,

wherein one or more of the comments associated with the first set of the one or more other users are displayed in the comment display portion of the GUI in response to receiving the first selection.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, a request from the user selectable option of the GUI, a second selection of a particular set of other users, a second set of other users, wherein the second set of other users includes at least one of the one or more other users and the second selection indicates a request of the viewing user to not view comments associated with the second set of other users, wherein one or more comments associated with the video media content and from the second set of other users are not displayed.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the first selection is received while the video media content is playing.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying a social network proximity option, wherein the social network proximity option indicates a social network proximity of a respective ones of the one or more other users with the viewing user in the social network.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising displaying, a physical proximity option, wherein the physical proximity option indicates a geographic distance of the respective computer devices of the one or more other users from the computing device of the viewing user.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a third selection via social network proximity option, the third selection being indicative of the user selecting the social; and

displaying a list of one or more other users matching the selected social network proximity option,

wherein the first selection of the first set of the one or more other users is received from the user selecting the first set of the one or more other users from the list.

15. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

executing a video chat application, wherein the GUI is associated with the video chat application;

receiving one or more video streams associated with the one or more other users, respectively; and

displaying the one or more video streams and the video media content in the GUI concurrently.

16. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the comment display portion comprises an overlay of the media display portion associated with a captioning feature of a media player that is playing the video media content.

17. A computing device associated with a viewing user, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising;

receiving video media content;

displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a media display portion for the video media content and a comment display portion for comments received from one or more other users, wherein the GUI further includes at least one user selectable option to selectively display comments from the one or more other users;

playing the video media content; and

receiving, from the user via the user selectable option of the GUI, a first selection of a first set of the one or more other users who are members of a same social network of which the viewing user is a member, wherein the first selection indicates a request of the viewing user to view comments associated with the first set of the one or more other users,

wherein one or more of the comments associated with the first set of the one or more other users are displayed in the comment display portion of the GUI in response to receiving the first selection.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, a request from the user selectable option of the GUI, a second selection of a set of other users, a second set of other users, wherein the second set of other users includes at least one of the one or more other users and the second selection indicates a request of the viewing user to not view comments associated with the second set of other users, wherein one or more comments associated with the video media content and from the second set of other users are not displayed.

19. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the first selection is received while the video media content is playing.

20. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying a social network proximity option, wherein the social network proximity option indicates a social network proximity of a respective ones of the one or more other users with the viewing user in the social network.

21. The computing device of claim 17, further comprising displaying, a physical proximity option, wherein the physical proximity option indicates a geographic distance of the respective computer devices of the one or more other users from the computing device of the viewing user.

22. The computing device of claim 20, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a third selection via social network proximity option the third selection being indicative of the user selecting the social network proximity option; and

displaying a list of one or more other users matching the selected social network proximity option,

wherein the first selection of the first set of the one or more other users is received from the user selecting the first set of the one or more other users from the list.

23. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

executing a video chat application, wherein the GUI is associated with the video chat application;

receiving one or more video streams associated with the one or more other users, respectively; and

displaying the one or more video streams and the video media content in the GUI concurrently.

24. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the comment display portion comprises an overlay of the media display portion associated with a captioning feature of a media player that is playing the video media content.