Relevant commentary for media content

• US 9,509,758 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2013
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Broz, Michal, Carter, Bernadette A., Lopez, Melba I., Marum, Matthew G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vostal, O. C.
• Application Number:
  US13/896,489
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,292 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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, when executed by a microprocessor, the computer usable code causes a computer to;

provide media content to a user;

identify commentary generated within a variance period from a date of creation of the media content and one or more of a preference for a viewpoint and a preference for a state of a social network;

provide said commentary to the user; and

clarify an ambiguous section of the media content using the commentary.

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; 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, when executed by a microprocessor, the computer usable code causes a computer to;

receive relevant commentary in response to a render of a section of video media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is generated within a variance period from a date of creation of the media content; and

clarify an ambiguous section of the media content using the relevant commentary.

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;

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, when executed by a microprocessor, the computer usable code causes a computer to;

provide media content to a user;

identify commentary generated within a variance period from a date of creation of the media content and one or more of a preference for a viewpoint and a preference for a state of a social network;

provide said commentary to the user; and

clarify an ambiguous section of the media content using the commentary.

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 simulate an interactive commentary session.