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Sharing television and video programming through social networking

  • US 9,497,155 B2
  • Filed: 11/30/2012
  • Issued: 11/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • by one or more computing devices of a social-networking system, identifying a user viewing video content on a first display device;

    by one or more computing devices of the social-networking system, identifying the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user;

    by one or more computing devices of the social-networking system, analyzing a social graph to determine a second display device associated with the identified user, the social graph comprising;

    user nodes that are each associated with a respective user of the social-networking system;

    concept nodes that each correspond to a respective display device; and

    a plurality of ownership edges connecting the user nodes and the concept nodes, each particular ownership edge indicating that a particular user corresponding to a particular user node owns a particular display device corresponding to a particular concept node;

    by one or more computing devices of the social-networking system, identifying particular sounds, text, or images in the video content as heard or viewed by the user;

    by one or more computing devices of the social-networking system, based on the particular sounds, text, or images, determining a pre-defined action related to the video content to be taken by the user; and

    by one or more computing devices of the social-networking system, providing one or more instructions to the determined second display device to present a call-to-action associated with the pre-defined action.

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