Sports community commentary

• US 20090170603A1
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chittoor, Arjun, Aneja, Mansi
• Application Number:
  US11/966,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20090170603A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/34 Betting or bookmaking, e.g. Internet betting

Abstract

Live sports community commentary technology operable to provide viewers with live sports commentary, and provide commentators with a means to provide commentary to viewers is disclosed. The live sports community commentary technology presents commentary from commentators on a sports event to viewers of the sports event, and provides feedback, motivation, and incentives to the commentators.

Claims

1. A live sports community commentary system, comprising logic for:

providing a commentary viewing webpage suitable for presentation on a display, wherein the commentary viewing webpage is operable to present commentary from a commentator;

providing a commentary channel selection webpage suitable for presentation on the display, wherein the commentary channel selection webpage is operable to present a set of sports commentary channels;

receiving a choice of at least one sports commentary channel from the set of sports commentary channels; and

providing at least one sports commentary channel to the commentary viewing webpage based on the choice of at least one sports commentary channel from the set of sports commentary channels.

2. The live sports community commentary system of claim 1, further comprising:

a user monitor module operable to monitor a quantity of consumers of the commentary; and

a feedback module operable to provide feedback to the commentator based on the quantity of consumers determined by the user monitor module.

3. The live sports community commentary system of claim 2, wherein the feedback comprises at least one of the group consisting of:

a rating of the commentary, a star rating of the commentary, a letter rating of the commentary, and a number representing the quantity of consumers of the commentary.

4. The live sports community commentary system of claim 1, further comprising an abuse report module operable to receive complaints of abuse from a consumer of the commentary.

5. The live sports community commentary system of claim 1, wherein the commentary viewing webpage further comprises an abuse report button operable to allow a consumer of the commentary to report improper commentary.

6. The live sports community commentary system of claim 1, wherein the commentary viewing webpage further comprises an overview area operable to present an overview of an event, and a commentary viewing area operable to present the commentary.

7. The live sports community commentary system of claim 1, further comprising a commentary submission webpage, wherein the commentary submission webpage comprises:

a commentary composing area for the commentator to enter the commentary; and

a submit button for the commentator to send the commentary to the commentary viewing area.

8. A method for live sports community commentary, the method comprising:

receiving a sports commentary from a commentator;

providing the sports commentary for presentation on a webpage;

determining a number of viewers of the sports commentary; and

providing feedback to the commentator based on the number of viewers.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving an abuse report, wherein the abuse report comprises a complaint about the sports commentary; and

modifying the feedback based on the abuse report.

10. A computer-readable medium comprising program code for providing live sports community commentary, the program code for:

receiving a sports commentary from a commentator; and

providing the sports commentary for presentation on a webpage.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising program code for:

determining a number of viewers of the sports commentary; and

providing feedback to the commentator based on the number of viewers.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, further comprising program code for:

receiving an abuse report, wherein the abuse report comprises a complaint about the sports commentary; and

modifying the feedback based on the abuse report.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the feedback comprises at least one of the group consisting of:

a rating of the commentary, a star rating of the commentary, a letter rating of the commentary, and a number representing the quantity of consumers of the commentary.

14. A computer-readable medium comprising program code for providing live sports community commentary, the program code for:

providing a listing of a set of sports commentary channels for browsing on a first webpage;

enabling selection of at least one sports commentary channel from the set of sports commentary channels; and

providing sports commentary from the at least one sports commentary channel for display on a second webpage.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further comprising program code for reporting a complaint about a sports commentary channel from the set of sports commentary channels.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further comprising program code for evaluating a sports commentary to produce a rating for a sports commentary channel from the set of sports commentary channels, and providing the rating for display on the first webpage.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further comprising program code for enabling:

browsing for additional sports commentary channels on the first webpage to obtain additional sports commentary channels; and

providing the additional sports commentary channels for display on the second webpage.

18. An interface for presentation on a webpage, the interface comprising:

a listing of commentary channels operable for choosing at least one commentary channel by a user; and

at least one popularity indicator for each of the commentary channels in the listing of commentary channels.

19. The interface of claim 18, further comprising a sorting option icon operable for activation by the user, wherein activation of the sorting option creates a presentation order of the listing of commentary channels.

20. The interface of claim 18, further comprising a favorites icon operable for activation by the user, wherein activation of the favorites icon causes the listing of commentary channels to be obtained from a database of favorite commentary channels.

21. The interface of claim 18, further comprising at least one description for each of the commentary channels in the listing of commentary channels.

22. The interface of claim 18, wherein the at least one popularity indicator comprises a star rating.

23. The interface of claim 18, wherein choosing the at least one commentary channel by the user causes the at least one commentary channel to be presented on a commentary viewing webpage, wherein the commentary viewing webpage comprises:

an overview area operable to present an overview of a sports event;

a commentary viewing area operable to present commentary for the sports event; and

an abuse report button operable to allow the user to report improper commentary.

24. The interface of claim 20, further comprising:

a first button for adding a commentary channel to the database of favorite commentary channels; and

a second button for removing a commentary channel from the database of favorite commentary channels.

25. The interface of claim 18, wherein the commentary channels are operable to receive commentary from a commentary submission webpage, and wherein the commentary submission webpage comprises:

at least one commentary composing area operable to receive input from a commentator; and

at least one submit button operable to allow the commentator to send the commentary to at least one of the commentary channels.