Relevant Commentary for Media Content

• US 20140344353A1
• Filed: 05/17/2013
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Broz, Michal, Carter, Bernadette A., Lopez, Melba I., Marum, Matthew G.
• Granted Patent: US 9,509,758 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17306 Intercommunication techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may provide and/or receive relevant commentary for media content. Additionally, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received in response to rendering a section of the media content. In addition, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on one or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and/or a preference for a state of a social network. Moreover, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on a topic related to the section of the media content. The relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary. In addition, an ambiguous section of the media content may be clarified, and/or an interactive commentary session may be simulated.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium; and

computer usable code stored on the computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to;

detect a media content access event by a user; and

provide relevant commentary to the user in response to a render of a section of the media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is to be based on two or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and a preference for a state of a social network.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to:

provide initial commentary to the user to be related to the section;

receive user commentary to be in response to the initial commentary; and

provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on the user commentary.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to perform one or more of the following:

provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a topic to be related to the section of the media content;

provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary;

clarify an ambiguous section of the media content; and

simulate an interactive commentary session.

4. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium; and

computer usable code stored on the computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to;

receive relevant commentary in response to a render of a section of media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is to be based on a preference for a temporal perspective.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to:

receive initial commentary to be related to the section;

provide user commentary to be in response to the initial commentary; and

receive at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on the user commentary.

6. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to perform one or more of the following:

receive at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a preference for a viewpoint to be related to the section of the media content;

receive at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a preference for a state of a social network;

receive at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a topic to be related to the section of the media content;

receive at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary;

clarify an ambiguous section of the media content; and

simulate an interactive commentary session.

7. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium; and

computer usable code stored on the computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to;

provide relevant commentary to a user in response to a render of a section of media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is to be based on a preference for a temporal perspective.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to:

provide initial commentary to the user to be related to the section;

receive user commentary to be in response to the initial commentary; and

provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based the user commentary.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to cause the media content and the initial commentary to be from a past time period, the user commentary to be from a present time period, and the portion of the relevant commentary to be from the past time period to be based on the preference for a past perspective.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to cause the media content to be from a past time period, the initial commentary and the user commentary to be from a present time period, and the portion of the relevant commentary to be from the present time period to be based on the preference for a present perspective.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to cause the portion of the relevant commentary to be from a present time period and a past time period to be based on the preference for a present perspective and a past perspective.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a preference for a viewpoint to be related to the section.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to derive the viewpoint from one or more of a user statement, user history information, and the section of the media content.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to provide the relevant commentary to be based on one or more of a viewpoint agreement, a viewpoint disagreement, and a viewpoint neutrality.

15. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a preference for a state of a social network.

16. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on a topic to be related to the section of the media content.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to derive the topic from a comment expressed by one or more of the user and the media content.

18. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to provide at least a portion of the relevant commentary to be based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary.

19. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to clarify an ambiguous section of the media content.

20. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer usable code, if executed, further causes a computer to simulate an interactive commentary session.