User commentary systems and methods

• US 9,584,866 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2016
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Lenahan, Michael George, Johnson, Amanda, Mitchell, Ben Lucas, Chung, Chahn, Young, Linda
• Primary Examiner(s): Arjomandi, Noosha
• Application Number:
  US15/015,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20160156980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2542 for selling goods, e.g. TV shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving program content and data describing program content from a content source, and automatically identifying, based on user preferences of a first user, one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content. Product-related metadata associated with the program content is identified. The product-related metadata including data relating to the one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content. The program content is communicated to a display device for presentation to a first user in a first portion of the display device, and the product-related metadata is communicated to a second display device for presentation to a second user substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device. A user commentary is received from the second device, the user commentary generated by the second user and associated with the program content or product-related metadata.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving program content and data describing program content from a content source;

automatically identifying, based on user preferences of a first user, one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content

identifying, using one or more processors, product-related metadata associated with the program content, the product-related metadata including data relating to the one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content;

communicating the program content to a display device for presentation to a first user in a first portion of the display device;

communicating the product-related metadata to a second display device for presentation to a second user substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device;

receiving a user commentary from the second device, the user commentary generated by the second user and associated with the program content or product-related metadata wherein the second user commentary is communicated to the first, second and other users while the other users are viewing the program content;

linking the second user commentary to the program content;

storing the second user commentary and the link between the second user commentary and the program content; and

allowing the second user to specify that the commentary be stored in the network-based marketplace and associated with the second user'"'"'s account in the networked-based market.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing commentaries of other users associated with the program content or product-related metadata;

and presenting, to the first user, the commentaries of the second and other users.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data describing the program content includes at least one of a title of a program in the program content, a description of the program, a program genre, a program rating, an actor who appears in the program, a temporal length of the program, and a release date of the program.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second user commentary includes at least a rating of a product associated with the product-related metadata.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the second user commentary to other users who have viewed the program content.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving the data describing the program content from the received program content.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a user identification of a product or service in the program content.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving program content and data describing program content from a content source;

automatically identifying, based on user preferences of a first user, one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content

identifying, using one or more processors, product-related metadata associated with the program content, the product-related metadata including data relating to the one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content;

communicating the program content to a display device for presentation to a first user in a first portion of the display device;

communicating the product-related metadata to a second display device for presentation to a second user substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device;

receiving a user commentary from the second device, the user commentary generated by the second user and associated with the program content or product-related metadata wherein the second user commentary is communicated to the first, second and other users while the other users are viewing the program content;

linking the second user commentary to the program content;

storing the second user commentary and the link between the second user commentary and the program content; and

allowing the second user to specify that the commentary be stored in the network-based marketplace and associated with the second user'"'"'s account in the networked-based market.

9. A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors and executable instructions accessible on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving program content and data describing program content from a content source;

automatically identifying, based on user preferences of a first user, one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content

identifying, using one or more processors, product-related metadata associated with the program content, the product-related metadata including data relating to the one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content;

communicating the program content to a display device for presentation to a first user in a first portion of the display device;

communicating the product-related metadata to a second display device for presentation to a second user substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device;

receiving a user commentary from the second device, the user commentary generated by the second user and associated with the program content or product-related metadata wherein the second user commentary is communicated to the first, second and other users while the other users are viewing the program content;

linking the second user commentary to the program content;

storing the second user commentary and the link between the second user commentary and the program content; and

allowing the second user to specify that the commentary be stored in the network-based marketplace and associated with the second user'"'"'s account in the networked-based market.