Community tagging of a multimedia stream and linking to related content

• US 8,832,277 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Clark, Bryan, Pennington, Havoc, Fischer, Donald
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Rong
• Application Number:
  US11/565,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20080134054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,840 Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention allow users to tag a multimedia program or stream with data or pointers to external information related to content of the multimedia program. Users in a social network may tag various aspects of the content, such as a particular actor, a type of car, jewelry, a location, a phrase, etc. This tagging information may then be linked to various websites that provide further information about the tagged content and may be keyed to video offset times.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, via a server computing device executing an open overlay service that manages information distribution between multiple social network services and allows users to indicate which identity resources to share with other users, user-submitted ratings for content that users have actively tagged as high value or low value content, wherein the user-submitted ratings are received from different content providers to allow segment information sharing for the content across the different content providers, and wherein a first user has a first identity resource and a second identity resource, and, in response to a sharing indication from the first user, a second user that has knowledge of the first identity resource and does not have knowledge of the second identity resource is allowed to view both the first identity resource and the second identity resource;

identifying a start time and an end time for each of a plurality of segments of the content segments in view of the user-submitted ratings;

providing data that indicates the start time and the end time of a segment in the plurality of segments in view of the user-submitted ratings to users of the multiple social network services;

receiving, from one of the users, locations of external resources relating to the segment in view of the user-submitted ratings, wherein the external resources indicate a website, a person appearing in the segment, an object appearing in the segment, and a place appearing in the segment; and

providing the locations and the segment to a shared identity resource of another one of the users of another one of the multiple social network services via a website of the open overlay service, wherein the locations are keyed to an offset time of the segment.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information related to the content; and

wherein identifying the start times and the end times is further in view of the information related to the content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identity resources are email addresses.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identity resources are account names.

5. A method, comprising:

receiving, via a server computing device executing an open overlay service that manages information distribution between multiple social network services and allows users to indicate which identity resources to share with other users, user-submitted ratings for content that users have actively tagged as high value or low value content, wherein the user-submitted ratings are received from different content providers to allow segment information sharing for the content across the different providers, and wherein a first user has a first identity resource and a second identity resource, and, in response to a sharing indication from the first user, a second user that has knowledge of the first identity resource and does not have knowledge of the second identity resource is allowed to view both the first identity resource and the second identity resource;

identifying a start time and an end time for each of a plurality of segments of the content segments in view of the user-submitted ratings;

providing data that indicates the start time and the end time of a segment in the plurality of segments to users of the multiple social network services;

receiving, from one of the users, locations of external resources relating to the segment in view of the user-submitted ratings, wherein the external resources indicate a website, a person appearing in the segment, an object appearing in the segment, and a place appearing in the segment; and

providing the locations and the segment to a shared identity resource of another one of the users of one of the multiple social network services via a website of the open overlay service, wherein the locations are keyed to an offset time of the segment.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving, from one of the users in the multiple social network services, related external information about content of a multimedia program, wherein a selected segment comprises the content;

tagging the multimedia program with pointers to the related external information; and

notifying another one of the users of the multiple social network services that the multimedia program has been tagged.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the identity resources are email addresses.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the identity resources are account names.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, via a server computing device executing on an open overlay service that manages information distribution between multiple social network services and allows users to indicate which identity resources to share with other users, user-submitted ratings for content that users have actively tagged as high value or low value content, wherein the user-submitted ratings are received from different content providers to allow segment information sharing for the content across the different content providers, and wherein a first user has a first identity resource and a second identity resource, and, in response to a sharing indication from the first user, a second user that has knowledge of the first identity resource and does not have knowledge of the second identity resource is allowed to view both the first identity resource and the second identity resource;

identifying a start time and an end time for each of a plurality of segments in view of the user-submitted ratings;

providing data that indicates the start time and the end time of a segment in the plurality of segments in view of the user-submitted ratings to users of the multiple social network services;

receiving, from one of the users, locations of external resources relating to the segment in view of the user-submitted ratings, wherein the external resources indicate a website, a person appearing in the segment, an object appearing in the segment, and a place appearing in the segment; and

providing the locations and the segment to a shared identity resource of another one of the users of another one of the multiple social network services via a website of the open overlay service, wherein the locations are keyed to an offset time of the segment.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the identity resources are email address addresses.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the identity resources are account names.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory to store instructions for an open overlay server that manages information distribution between multiple social network services and allows users to indicate which identity resources to share with other users; and

a processing device, coupled to the memory, to execute the instructions for the open overlay server, wherein the processing device is to;

receive, via a server computing device executing an open overlay service that manages information distribution between the multiple social network services, user-submitted ratings for content that users have actively tagged as high value or low content, wherein the user-submitted ratings are received from different content providers to allow segment information sharing for the content across the different content providers, and wherein a first user has a first identity resource and a second identity resource, and, in response to a sharing indication from the first user, a second user that has knowledge of the first identity resource and does not have knowledge of the second identity resource is allowed to view both the first identity resource and the second identity resource;

identify a start time and an end time for each of a plurality of segments of the content segments in view of the user-submitted ratings;

provide data that indicates the start time and end time of a segment in the plurality of segments in view of the user-submitted ratings to users of the multiple social network services;

receive, from one of the users, locations of external resources relating to the segment in view of the user-submitted ratings, wherein the external resources indicate a website, a person appearing in the segment, an object appearing in the segment, and a place appearing in the segment; and

provide the locations and the segment to a shared identity resource of another one of the users of another one of the multiple social network services via a website of the open overlay service, wherein the locations are keyed to an offset time of the segment.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the identity resources are email addresses.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the identity resources are account names.