Obtaining User Reactions to Video

• US 20090165030A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Cronin, Dennis G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,621,502 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting

Abstract

A user interaction request is received during playback of video content. The user interaction request can be received independent of any indication from the video content that user interaction is possible. In response to receiving the interaction request, one or more menus are displayed allowing the user to select one or more reaction options and to select whether the selected one or more reaction options are to be communicated to another user or to a content provider.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a user interaction request during playback of video content;

in response to receiving the interaction request, displaying an interaction menu including both an interact with friend option and an interact with content provider option;

receiving a user selection of one of the interact with friend option and the interact with content provider option;

if user selection of the interact with friend option is received, then displaying one or more menus including reaction options and recipient options; and

if user selection of the interact with content provider option is received, then displaying one or more menus including reaction options.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the interact with content provider option comprises an interact with show option.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the interact with content provider option comprises an interact with ad option.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the user interaction request comprises receiving the user interaction request independent of any indication from the video content that user interaction is possible.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the user interaction request comprises receiving the user interaction request at any time during playback of the video content.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein if the interact with friend option is received, then the displaying comprises:

displaying one or more menus including multiple reaction options;

receiving a user selection of one of the multiple reaction options;

displaying one or more recipient selection menus including multiple recipient options;

receiving a user selection of one of the multiple recipient options; and

the method further comprising sending the selected one of the multiple reaction options to the selected one of the multiple recipient options.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein if the interact with content provider option is received, then the displaying comprises:

displaying one or more menus including multiple reaction options;

receiving a user selection of one of the multiple reaction options; and

the method further comprising sending the selected one of the multiple reaction options to a provider of the video content.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

in response to receiving the interaction request, pausing playback of the video content;

terminating displaying of the one or more menus including reaction options and recipient options or the one or more menus including reaction options; and

resuming, after terminating the displaying, playback of the video content.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, the reaction options comprising options representing one or more emotional reactions that a user may have to the video content.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, the one or more menus including reaction options and recipient options comprising a first menu including one or more reaction options and a second menu including one or more recipient options.

11. A method implemented in a first device, the method comprising:

displaying an alert that a second user of a second device has sent a video content message to a first user of the first device;

receiving, from the first user, a request to view video content corresponding to the video content message;

playing, in response to the request, the video content;

receiving, from the first user, a reaction option associated with the video content; and

sending the reaction option to the second user.

12. A method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

pausing, in response to receiving the request to view the video content, playback of second video content being played back on the first device; and

terminating playback of the video content and resuming playback of the second video content after receiving the reaction option.

13. A method as recited in claim 11, wherein receiving the reaction option comprises:

displaying one or more menus including multiple reaction options; and

receiving a first user selection of one of the multiple reaction options.

14. A method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

displaying one or more menus including multiple reaction options;

receiving a user selection of one of the multiple reaction options; and

sending the selected one of the multiple reaction options to a provider of the video content.

15. One or more computer storage media having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:

receive a user interaction request during playback of video content, the user interaction request being received independent of any indication from the video content that user interaction is possible;

in response to receiving the interaction request, display one or more menus allowing the user to select one or more reaction options and to select whether the selected one or more reaction options are to be communicated to a second user or to a content provider; and

send the selected one or more reaction options to the selected one of the second user or the content provider.

16. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 15, wherein to display one or more menus is to display, in response to user selection of an interact with content provider option in an interaction menu of the one or more menus, multiple reaction options in one of the one or more menus, the instructions further causing the one or more processors to:

receive a user selection of one of the multiple reaction options; and

wherein to send the selected one or more reaction options to the selected one of the second user or the content provider is to send the selected one of the multiple reaction options to the content provider.

17. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 15, wherein to display one or more menus is to display, in response to user selection of an interact with friend option in an interaction menu of the one or more menus, multiple reaction options in a first menu and multiple recipient options in a second menu, the instructions further causing the one or more processors to:

receive a user selection of one of the multiple reaction options from the first menu;

receive a user selection of one of the multiple recipient options from the second menu; and

wherein to send the selected one or more reaction options to the selected one of the second user or the content provider is to send the selected one of the multiple reaction options from the first menu to the selected one of the multiple recipient options from the second menu.

18. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 15, the instructions further causing the one or more processors to:

pause, in response to receiving the interaction request, playback of the video content; and

resume, after sending the selected one or more reaction options to the selected one of the second user or the content provider, playback of the video content.

19. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 15, wherein to display one or more menus is to overlay the one or more menus on a portion of a display in which the video content is being played back.

20. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 15, wherein to display one or more menus is to obtain, from metadata associated with the video content, information to be displayed in at least one of the one or more menus.