User commentary systems and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021021902-A1
Application number	US-202017062869-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 5, 2020
Priority date	Aug 4, 2011
Publication date	Jan 21, 2021
Grant date	—

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
receiving at a user device program content along with data identifying the program content from a content source; presenting the program content and the data identifying the program content to a user at the user device; displaying a user interface to the user at the user device, the user interface being configured to receive commentary from the user, the commentary relating to the program content; receiving the commentary from the user at the user interface; and linking the commentary with the program content such that the commentary is retrievable and presentable during a presentation of the program content.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data identifying the program content includes at least one of a title of a program in the media 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.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user commentary includes at least one of a rating of a program in the media content, a summary of the program, a description of a program scene, and a description of a program character.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
accessing commentaries of other users associated with the program content; and presenting, to the user, the commentaries of the other users.

5 . The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:
receiving additional user commentary; and linking the additional user commentary with the program content.

6 . A system comprising:
processors; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor among the processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving at a user device program content along with data identifying the program content from a content source;
presenting the program content and the data identifying the program content to a user at the user device;
displaying a user interface to the user at the user device, the user interface being configured to receive commentary from the user, the commentary relating to the program content;
receiving the commentary from the user at the user interface; and
linking the commentary with the program content such that the commentary is retrievable and presentable during a presentation of the program content.

7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the data identifying the program content includes at least one of a title of a program in the media 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.

8 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the user commentary includes at least one of a rating of a program in the media content, a summary of the program, a description of a program scene, and a description of a program character.

9 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise:
accessing commentaries of other users associated with the program content; and presenting, to the user, the commentaries of the other users.

10 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving additional user commentary; and linking the additional user commentary with the program content.

11 . 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 at a user device program content along with data identifying the program content from a content source; presenting the program content and the data identifying the program content to a user at the user device; displaying a user interface to the user at the user device, the user interface being configured to receive commentary from the user, the commentary relating to the program content; receiving the commentary from the user at the user interface; and linking the commentary with the program content such that the commentary is retrievable and presentable during a presentation of the program content.

12 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein the data identifying the program content includes at least one of a title of a program in the media 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.

13 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein the user commentary includes at least one of a rating of a program in the media content, a summary of the program, a description of a program scene, and a description of a program character.

14 . The medium of claim 11 , further comprising:
accessing commentaries of other users associated with the program content; and presenting, to the user, the commentaries of the other users.

15 . The medium of claim 11 , the method further comprising:
receiving additional user commentary; and linking the additional user commentary with the program content.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Lenahan Michael George
• Johnson Amanda
• Mitchell Ben Lucas
• Chung Chahn
• Young Linda

Classifications

• H04N21/41265

  having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device (unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204) · CPC title

• H04N21/4788

  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 title

• H04N21/47815 Primary

  Electronic shopping (payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12) · CPC title

• H04N21/4758

  for providing answers, e.g. voting · CPC title

• H04N21/42208

  Display device provided on the remote control · CPC title