Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for media on demand commentaries
- Patent Title (中): 媒体点播评论的装置和方法
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Application No.: US14636877Application Date: 2015-03-03
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Publication No.: US09584864B2Publication Date: 2017-02-28
- Inventor: Linda Roberts , E-Lee Chang , Ja-Young Sung , Natasha Barrett Schultz , Robert King
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Guntin & Gust, PLC
- Agent Matthew Tropper
- Main IPC: H04N21/4788
- IPC: H04N21/4788 ; H04N21/81 ; H04N21/475 ; H04N21/431 ; H04N21/488 ; H04N21/845 ; H04N21/2668 ; H04N21/234 ; H04N21/235 ; H04N21/44 ; H04N5/445 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; H04H60/33

Abstract:
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to present an overlay to be combined with media content during presentation at each of a plurality of computing devices to illustrate a collection of user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the media content, wherein the portions of the media content comprise portions of a media on demand presentation in an interactive television network, collect the user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices, identify target portions of the media content that each satisfy a threshold number of comments and non-target portions of the media content that do not satisfy the threshold number of comments, generate comment groups of the user-generated comments, and provide the comment groups to the plurality of computing devices for presentation in the overlay.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150181297A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEDIA ON DEMAND COMMENTARIES Public/Granted day:2015-06-25
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