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Method and device for augmenting user-input information related to media content

  • US 10,277,933 B2
  • Filed: 04/27/2012
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of augmenting user comments, the method comprising:

  • associating a first secondary device with a primary media device, the primary media device for displaying media content, and wherein the first secondary device comprises a secondary display device, a user interface for entering an input, and a client application for providing the user interface;

    receiving, in the first secondary device, a user comment that is provided as the input at the first secondary device by a user of the first secondary device, wherein the input of the user comment is during and responsive to a display of a primary media content on the primary media device for viewing by the user;

    analyzing the user comment to automatically generate user-content metadata comprising one or more of a keyword from the user comment and a key phrase from the user comment;

    at least one of;

    receiving primary-content metadata related to the primary media content and deriving primary-content metadata from the primary media content,wherein the primary-content metadata comprises information identifying a person speaking in the primary media content at a time of the display of the primary media content on the primary media device for viewing by the user, the time associated with the input of the user comment; and

    further comprises information spoken by the person during or proximate to the time; and

    in one or more devices, using the user-content metadata and the primary-content metadata to automatically generate an identified association between the user comment and the primary-content metadata, the generating comprising analyzing the user-content metadata and the primary-content metadata to identify one or more associations between the user-content metadata and the primary-content metadata,wherein the primary-content metadata comprises information relating to a specific viewable object displayed in a scene in the primary media content, and wherein the identified association includes information that relates the user comment to the specific viewable object displayed by the primary media device during the receiving of the user comment by the first secondary device.

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