Methods and systems for presenting media content generated by attendees of a live event

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9009596-B2
Application number	US-201113300918-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2011
Priority date	Nov 21, 2011
Publication date	Apr 14, 2015
Grant date	Apr 14, 2015

Abstract

An exemplary method includes a media content presentation system receiving a plurality of timestamped and geotagged media content instances generated during a live event by a plurality of attendees of the live event, detecting input provided by a user specifying a time period associated with the live event and input provided by the user specifying a viewing area within a venue associated with the live event, identifying one or more media content instances that have a timestamp included within the specified time period and a geotagged location within the specified viewing area, and presenting the identified one or more media content instances to the user within a graphical user interface in a manner that is temporally synchronized with an event timeline associated with the live event. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a media content presentation system, a plurality of timestamped and geotagged media content instances generated during a live event by a plurality of attendees of the live event;
presenting, by the media content presentation system within a graphical user interface, a plurality of graphical objects representing a plurality of predefined time periods associated with the live event;
detecting, by the media content presentation system, a selection by a user of a graphical object included in the plurality of graphical objects and representative of a predefined time period included in the plurality of predefined time periods;
detecting, by the media content presentation system, input provided by the user specifying a viewing area within a venue associated with the live event;
identifying, by the media content presentation system, media content instances that have a timestamp included within the predefined time period and a geotagged location within the specified viewing area, the identified media content instances included in the plurality of media content instances;
presenting, by the media content presentation system within the graphical user interface, an additional graphical object that graphically represents the venue; and
presenting, by the media content presentation system within the graphical user interface and together with the additional graphical object that graphically represents the venue, the identified media content instances generated during the live event by the plurality of attendees of the live event to the user along a graphical representation of a viewing path representative of a plurality of different viewing angles of the live event within the specified viewing area in accordance with a presentation order that is based on the timestamp and the geotagged location of each of the identified media content instances.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving of the plurality of timestamped and geotagged media content instances comprises receiving uploads of the plurality of timestamped and geotagged media content instances from a plurality of mobile devices associated with the plurality of attendees.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the input specifying the viewing area within the venue comprises detecting input provided by the user specifying a particular seating area within the venue.

4. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the detecting of the input specifying the viewing area within the venue comprises detecting a touch gesture performed by the user with respect to the additional graphical object.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a rotation by the user of the additional graphical object within the graphical user interface.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a selection by the user of a particular portion of the additional graphical object.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified media content instances comprise a particular media content instance, and wherein the presenting of the identified media content instances to the user within the graphical user interface comprises presenting the identified media content instances in a manner that is temporally synchronized with an event timeline associated with the live event and further comprises presenting the particular media content instance for a predetermined amount of time associated with a temporal position along the event timeline that corresponds to a timestamp of the particular media content instance.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
graphically indicating, by the media content presentation system within the graphical user interface, a geotagged location of each of the identified media content instances with respect to the additional graphical object that depicts the venue.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting, by the media content presentation system, a presentation of the live event by way of a media content access device associated with the user;
wherein the presenting of the identified media content instances is performed in response to the detecting.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the presenting of the identified media content instances comprises presenting the identified media content instances by way of a companion device separate from the media content access device during the presentation of the live event.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting, by the media content presentation system, a selection by the user of a particular media content instance included in the identified media content instances; and
presenting, by the media content presentation system, one or more access options associated with the selected media content instance.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting, by the media content presentation system, a selection by the user of another graphical object included in the plurality of graphical objects and representative of an additional predefined time period included in the plurality of predefined time periods;
identifying, by the media content presentation system, one or more additional media content instances that have a timestamp included within the additional predefined time period and a geotagged location included within the specified viewing area, the identified one or more additional media content instances included in the plurality of media content instances; and
presenting, by the media content presentation system, the identified one or more additional media content instances to the user within the graphical user interface in a manner that is temporally synchronized with an event timeline associated with the live event.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting, by the media content presentation system, additional input provided by the user specifying another viewing area within the venue associated with the live event;
identifying, by the media content presentation system, one or more additional media content instances that have a timestamp included within the predefined time period and a geotagged location included within the specified another viewing area, the identified one or more additional media content instances included in the plurality of media content instances; and
presenting, by the media content presentation system, the identified one or more additional media content instances to the user within the graphical user interface in a manner that is temporally synchronized with an event timeline associated with the live event.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
facilitating, by the media content presentation system, creation by the user of one or more filter rules;
wherein at least one of the identifying and the presenting is performed in accordance with the one or more filter rules.

15. The method of claim 1 , embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the presenting of the identified media content instances to the user within the graphical user interface comprises presenting the identified media content instances in a manner that is temporally synchronized with an event timeline associated with the live event.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the live event comprises a sporting event, and the predefined time period corresponds to an official time period associated with the sporting event.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the live event comprises a concert, and t

Assignees

• Ortiz Guillermo
• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Ortiz Guillermo

Classifications

• H04N21/2187

  Live feed · CPC title

• H04N1/00

  Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof · CPC title

• H04N21/2665

  Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite · CPC title

• G06F17/30064

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/21805

  enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras · CPC title