MEDIA OBJECT QUERY SUBMISSION AND RESPONSE
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, from a user device of a first user, an image and a text query related to the image, wherein the text query requests information identifying content presented in the image;
providing for presentation the image and the text query to a plurality of second users different from the first user; and
receiving a suggested answer to the text query from each of a group of second users of the plurality of second users, and wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the text query or a previous suggested answer to the text query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the text query.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for submitting media object queries and receiving suggested answers for the media object queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a first user a first media object and a first query relating to content in the first media object, presenting the first media object and the first query to multiple second users, receiving a suggested answer to the first query from each of two or more second users of the multiple second users, where at least two of the suggested answers are distinct, ranking the suggested answers, and presenting one or more of the ranked suggested answers to the first user.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, from a user device of a first user, an image and a text query related to the image, wherein the text query requests information identifying content presented in the image; providing for presentation the image and the text query to a plurality of second users different from the first user; and receiving a suggested answer to the text query from each of a group of second users of the plurality of second users, and wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the text query or a previous suggested answer to the text query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the text query. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system comprising:
one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising; receiving, from a user device of a first user, an image and a text query related to the image, wherein the text query requests information identifying content presented in the image; providing for presentation the image and the text query to a plurality of second users different from the first user; and receiving a suggested answer to the text query from each of a group of second users of the plurality of second users, and wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the text query or a previous suggested answer to the text query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the text query. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
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receiving, from a user device of a first user, an image and a text query related to the image, wherein the text query requests information identifying content presented in the image; providing for presentation the image and the text query to a plurality of second users different from the first user; and receiving a suggested answer to the text query from each of a group of second users of the plurality of second users, and wherein a suggested answer from a particular second user is either a new suggested answer submitted by the particular second user in response to the text query or a previous suggested answer to the text query, the previous suggested answer being a suggested answer previously submitted by a different second user of the plurality of second users in response to the text query. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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