System Network-Enabled Interactive Media Player

• US 20150026602A1
• Filed: 10/09/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Catalog.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Catalog.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Crull, Robert Wayne, Miller, Bill Cody, Kenney, Andrew Blinn, Martin, Thad Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/510,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20150026602A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/335 for accessing specific resources, e.g. using Kerberos tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

Systems and methods for online social networking may include an interactive media player. The interactive media player may exhibit media and allow interaction between users and/or users and administrators.

Claims

1. An interactive media player embedded in a website hosted by a server system accessible over a computer network, the interactive media player comprising:

a social network portion displaying at least a portion of a social network profile of a first member of a social network;

an interactive portion allowing the first member of the social network to interact with one or more second members of the social network; and

a viewing portion exhibiting one or more media files to at least one of the first member and the one or more second members of the social network.

2. The interactive media player of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member comprises at least one of:

a list of one or more second members of the social network that are members of a list controlled by the first member, social network indicators for the first member, social network controls for the first member, social network photos, and social network messages for the first member.

3. The interactive media player of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member comprises at least one of:

a list of one or more second members of the social network that are friends of the first member on the social network, social network indicators for the first member, social network controls for the first member, social network photos, and social network messages for the first member.

4. The interactive media player of claim 1, wherein the interactive portion is adapted to trigger changes in the social network profile of the first member of the social network in response to the interactions between the first member and the one or more second members of the social network.

5. The interactive media player of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member displayed by the social network potion is at least partially based on a level of permission of the first member of the social network.

6. A server system for providing an interactive media player coupled to a social network comprising:

one or more processor and one or more non-transitory computer memory coupled to the one or more processor, wherein the one or more non-transitory computer memory stores processor executable code which when executed by the one or more processor causes the one or more processor to;

receive a first signal over a computer network indicative of a request from a first member of a social network having a social network profile for access to a first website coupled to the social network;

in response to receiving the first signal, access at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member;

receive a second signal over the computer network indicative of a request from the first member of the social network for access to a media exhibition on the first website;

transmit a third signal over the computer network, the third signal indicative of an interactive media player comprising;

a viewing portion exhibiting the media requested by the first member of the social network;

a social network portion displaying the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member; and

wherein the media includes at least one of;

audio media, video media, and still-image media.

7. The server system of claim 6, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member comprises one or more of:

a list of one or more second members of the social network that are members of a list controlled by the first member of the social network, social network indicators for the first member, social network controls for the first member, social network photos, and social network messages for the first member.

8. The server system of claim 6, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member comprises at least one of:

a list of one or more second members of the social network that are friends of the first member on the social network, social network indicators for the first member, social network controls for the first member, social network photos, and social network messages for the first member.

9. The server system of claim 8, wherein the interactive media player further comprises an interactive portion allowing the first member of the social network to interact with the one or more second members of the social network.

10. The server system of claim 6, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member displayed by the interactive media player is at least partially based on a level of permission of the first member of the social network.

11. A method of providing a social network enabled interactive media player, comprising:

receiving, by a server system hosting a social network, a first signal over a computer network, the first signal indicative of a request from a computer displaying an interactive media player for at least a portion of a social network profile of a first member of the social network;

transmitting, by the server system, a second signal over the computer network to the computer displaying the interactive media player, the second signal comprising the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member;

receiving, by the server system, a third signal over the computer network, the third signal indicative of an interaction between the first member and the interactive media player; and

in response to receiving the third signal the server system triggering changes in the social network profile of the first member based at least in part on the interaction between the first member and the interactive media player.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least a portion of the social profile of the first member comprises one or more of:

a list of one or more second members of the social network that are members of a list controlled by the first member of the social network, social network indicators for the first member, social network controls for the first member, social network photos, and social network messages for the first member.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least a portion of the social network profile of the first member comprises at least one of:

a list of one or more second members of the social network that are friends of the first member on the social network, social network indicators for the first member, social network controls for the first member, social network photos, and social network messages for the first member.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least a portion of the social profile of the first member is at least partially based on a level of permission of the first member of the social network.