Media content and chat integration

• US 8,352,873 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2008
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Craig, James P., Circlaeys, Eric M., Bronder, Kjell
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien
• Assistant Examiner(s): Levy, Amy M
• Application Number:
  US12/135,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307614A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,677 Days
• Field of Search: 715/758, 715/751, 715/781, 709/204, 709/248, 709/227
• US Class Current: 715/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

In various embodiments, a method includes receiving a request to initiate recording of media content of an event. The method also includes controlling capturing of the media content by a capture machine in response to the received request. The method includes opening a chat session among one or more persons that are listeners or viewers of the event being captured, wherein the opening is in response to the request to initiate recording of the media content. The chat session comprises one or more entries that include a chat input from the one or more persons and a timecode of the chat input. The method includes receiving a request to stop recording of the media content of the event. The method also includes combining at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat session with the media content using the time code of the one or more entries.

Claims

1. A computerized method comprising:

receiving, at a production server, a request to initiate recording of media content of an event;

controlling capturing of the media content by a capture machine in response to the received request;

opening, at a chat server, a chat session among one or more persons that are listeners or viewers of the event being captured, wherein the opening is in response to the request to initiate recording of the media content, the chat session comprising one or more entries that include a chat input from the one or more persons and a timecode of the chat input;

receiving, at the production server, a request to stop recording of the media content of the event; and

combining, at a post processor system, at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat session with the media content based, at least in part, on the time code of the one or more entries to generate a combined video content, the combining including storing, in a machine readable medium, at least the subset of the one or more entries of the chat data as caption data of the media content.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein combining of at least the subset of the one or more entries with the media content occurs after the event is complete and the chat session is closed.

3. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the one or more entries of the chat session comprises a transcription of audio of the event.

4. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting invite requests to the chat session to client devices of the one or more persons, wherein the transmitting is in response to the request to initiate the recording of the media content.

5. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein storing at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat session as caption data within the media content comprises storing at least a subset of the one or more entries into metadata of the media content.

6. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises video data.

7. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the chat input comprises at least one of an image or a video.

8. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising closing the chat session, in response to the request to stop recording.

9. The computerized method of claim 8, wherein closing the chat session is also in response to all of the one or more persons leaving the chat session.

10. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein at least part of the chat session is open during a time when the event is occurring.

11. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the integrated video content comprises a plurality of video frames and at least one of said video frames comprises rendered video data of both the media content and the chat data.

12. A system comprising:

a production server comprising at least one processor, configured to initiate recording of media content of an event in response to a request;

a media capture machine configured to capture the media content under the control of the production server;

a first server comprising at least a first processor, and configured to initiate an opening of a chat session in response to initiation of the recording of the event into the media content, the chat session among one or more persons that are at least one of a listener or a viewer of the event, wherein chat data is recorded in response to the opening of the chat session, the chat data comprising one or more entries that include a chat input from the one or more persons and a timecode of the chat input; and

a second server comprising at least a second processor, and configured to combine, based at least in part on the time code of the one or more entries, the media content with at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat data to generate an integrated video content with at least a subset of the entries of the chat data stored as caption data of the media content.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the media content is time synced with at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat data using the time code of the one or more entries.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the second server is configured to combine the media content with at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat data after the event is complete and the chat session is closed.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more entries of the chat session comprises a transcription of audio of the event.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the chat input comprises at least one of an image or a video.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the integrated video content comprises a plurality of video frames and at least one of said video frames comprises rendered video data of both the media content and the chat data.