User commentary systems and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9584866-B2
Application number	US-201615015336-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2016
Priority date	Aug 4, 2011
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

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 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.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04N21/84

  Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4312

  involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations · CPC title

• G06F17/30595

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/42208

  Display device provided on the remote control · CPC title

• H04N21/4126

  The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones · CPC title