Cloud based management for multiple content markers

• US 9,514,136 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Scheer, Fred, Tanna, Gaurav A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain
• Assistant Examiner(s): May, Robert F
• Application Number:
  US14/061,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20150113000A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: 707/746
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline

Abstract

A first device may receive an instruction to add a first marker that identifies a first time index associated with particular content and a particular account used to access the particular content; receive an instruction to add a second marker that identifies a second time index associated with the particular content and the particular account; store the first marker and information associating the first marker with the first time index, the particular content, and the particular account; store the second marker and information associating the second marker with the second time index, the particular content, and the particular account; receive selection of the first marker or the second marker, associated with the particular content and the particular account; and cause a second device to play back the particular content at the first time index or the second time index.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first device, an instruction to add a first marker that identifies a first time index associated with particular content and a particular account used to access the particular content,

the first marker being associated with a first user of the particular account;

receiving, by the first device, another instruction to add a second marker that identifies a second time index associated with the particular content and the particular account,

the second marker identifying restricted content provided in the particular content,

the second time index specifying a time period associated with the restricted content,

the second marker being associated with a second user of the particular account,

the first user being different than the second user;

storing, by the first device, the first marker and information associating the first marker with the first time index, the particular content, and the particular account;

storing, by the first device, the second marker and information associating the second marker with the second time index, the particular content, and the particular account;

receiving, by the first device, a selection of the first marker or the second marker, associated with the particular content and the particular account;

causing, by the first device, a second device to play back the particular content, including the restricted content, when the selection includes the first time index; and

causing, by the first device, the second device to play back the particular content, without the restricted content, when the selection includes the second time index.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, after storing the first marker and the second marker, a request for the particular content from the second device,

the request being associated with the particular account; and

providing information regarding the first marker and the second marker to the second device,

where receiving the selection of the first marker or the second marker includes;

receiving, from the second device, the selection of the first marker or the second marker from the information regarding the first marker or the second marker.

3. The method of claim 1, where the instruction to add the first marker or the other instruction to add the second marker is provided by the second device or a publisher associated with the particular content.

4. The method of claim 1, where the first marker or the second marker relates to a chapter of the particular content, metadata of the particular content, an object presented in the particular content, or a point in the particular content at which playback of the particular content has been paused by a user of the second device.

5. The method of claim 1, where the instruction to add the first marker or the other instruction to add the second marker includes a description,

the method further comprising:

storing information associating the first marker or the second marker with the description,

where storing the first marker or the second marker includes storing the information associating the first marker or the second marker with the description.

6. The method of claim 1, where the first marker identifies a third time index in addition to the first time index,

the method further comprising:

causing the second device to prevent playback of the particular content between the first time index and the third time index.

7. The method of claim 1, where the first marker identifies a third time index in addition to the first time index,

the method comprising:

receiving authorization information from the second device; and

causing the second device to permit playback of the particular content between the first time index and the third time index based on the authorization information.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

storing a third marker, identifying a third time index, based on storing the first marker or the second marker,

the third time index identifying a beginning of the particular content and being selectable by the second device to cause the second device to play back the particular content from the beginning of the particular content.

9. A first device comprising:

a processor to;

receive an instruction to add a first marker that identifies a first time index associated with particular content and a particular account used to access the particular content,

the first marker being associated with a first user of the particular account;

receive another instruction to add a second marker that identifies a second time index associated with the particular content and the particular account,

the second marker identifying restricted content provided in the particular content,

the second time index specifying a time period associated with the restricted content,

the second marker being associated with a second user of the particular account,

the first user being different than the second user;

store the first marker and information associating the first marker with the first time index, the particular content, and the particular account;

store the second marker and information associating the second marker with the second time index, the particular content, and the particular account;

receive a selection of the first marker or the second marker, associated with the particular content and the particular account;

cause a second device to play back the particular content, including the restricted content, when the selection includes the first time index; and

cause the second device to play back the particular content, without the restricted content, when the selection includes the second time index.

10. The first device of claim 9, where the instruction to add the first marker or the other instruction to add the second marker is provided by the second device or a publisher associated with the particular content.

11. The first device of claim 9, where the first marker or the second marker relates to a chapter of the particular content, metadata of the particular content, an object presented in the particular content, or a point in the particular content at which playback of the particular content has been paused by the second device.

12. The first device of claim 9, where the instruction to add the first marker or the other instruction to add the second marker includes a description,

where the processor is further to:

store information associating the first marker or the second marker with the description,

where when storing the first marker or the second marker, the first device is further to store the information associating the first marker or the second marker with the description.

13. The first device of claim 9, where the second marker identifies a third time index in addition to the second time index,

where the processor is further to:

cause the second device to prevent playback of the particular content between the second time index and the third time index.

14. The first device of claim 9, where the second marker identifies a third time index in addition to the second time index,

where the processor is further to:

receive authorization information from the second device; and

cause the second device to permit playback of the particular content between the second time index and the third time index based on the authorization information.

15. The first device of claim 9, where the processor is further to:

store a third marker, identifying a third time index, based on storing the first marker or the second marker,

the third time index identifying a beginning of the particular content and being selectable by the second device to cause the second device to play back the particular content from the beginning of the particular content.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors associated with a first device, cause the one or more processors to;

receive an instruction to add a first marker that identifies a first time index associated with particular content, a first description, and a particular account used to access the particular content,

the first marker being associated with a first user of the particular account;

receive another instruction to add a second marker that identifies a second time index associated with the particular content, a second description, and the particular account,

the second marker identifying restricted content provided in the particular content,

the second time index specifying a time period associated with the restricted content,

the second marker being associated with a second user of the particular account,

the first user being different than the second user;

store the first marker and information associating the first marker with the first time index, the first description, the particular content, and the particular account;

store the second marker and information associating the second marker with the second time index, the second description, the particular content, and the particular account,

receive a selection of the first marker or the second marker, associated with the particular content and the particular account;

cause a second device to play back the particular content, including the restricted content, when the selection includes the first time index; and

cause the second device to play back the particular content, without the restricted content, when the selection includes the second time index.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, where the plurality of instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

receive, after storing the first marker and the second marker, a request for the particular content from the second device,

the request being associated with the particular account;

provide information regarding the first marker and the second marker to the second device;

receive, from the second device, the selection of the second marker; and

cause the second device to play back the particular content at the second time index corresponding to the selection of the second marker.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, where the instruction to add the first marker or the other instruction to add the second marker is provided by the second device or a publisher associated with the particular content.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, where the first marker or the second marker relates to a chapter of the particular content, metadata of the particular content, an object presented in the particular content, or a point in the particular content at which playback of the particular content has been paused by a user associated with the particular content.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, where the plurality of instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

store a third marker, identifying a third time index, based on storing the first marker or the second marker,

the third time index identifying a beginning of the particular content and being selectable by the second device to cause the second device to play back the particular content from the beginning of the particular content.