US 12,074,925 B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting user comments containing timed references in synchronization with a media content item
Gilman Tolle, San Francisco, CA (US); Eileen Margaret Peters Long, San Jose, CA (US); Brian Becker, Portola Valley, CA (US); Xiaxiang Lin, Mountain View, CA (US); Siobhan Quinn, San Francisco, CA (US); Antonia Hidalgo, San Francisco, CA (US); Nikhil Dandekar, San Francisco, CA (US); Mengya Tang, San Francisco, CA (US); and Fangxiaoyu Feng, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/666,459.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254350 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 65/401 (2022.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/4015 (2013.01) [H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 51/216 (2022.05)] 21 Claims
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1. A method for presenting user comments during media playback, the method comprising:
obtaining a plurality of comments associated with a media content item;
determining a subset of comments from the plurality of comments, wherein each respective comment from the subset of comments includes a text portion from which at least one of a plurality of timed references to a position of the media content item is extracted from the respective comment;
determining a series of time windows, wherein each time window in the series of time windows corresponds to a segment of the media content item, and wherein the series of time windows includes at least a first time window and a second time window;
associating a first plurality of comments from the subset of comments with the first time window and a second plurality of comments from the subset of comments with the second time window,
wherein each respective timed reference from the plurality of timed references includes a reference to the position of the media content item extracted from each respective comment from the first plurality of comments and the second plurality of comments, and wherein each respective timed reference corresponds with a time within a respective time window from the series of time windows;
receiving a request to receive comments that are synchronized with playback of the media content item; and
in response to receiving the request to receive comments that are synchronized with playback of the media content item, causing:
presentation of at least a portion of the first plurality of comments associated with the first time window within a timed comments interface concurrently with a first portion of the media content item that corresponds with the first time window and presentation of a comments interface that includes comments from the plurality of comments that are not within the subset of comments, and
presentation of at least a portion of the second plurality of comments associated with the second time window within the timed comments interface concurrently with a second portion of the media content item that corresponds with the second time window and presentation of the comments interface that includes the comments from the plurality of comments that are not within the subset of comments.