Patent ID: 11915277
Assignee: SCORPCAST, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A system, comprising:
at least one processing device;
a network interface configured to communicate over a network;
non-transitory memory storing programmatic code that when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receive, over the network using the network interface, a first video;
receive from a first user device, via a user interface that enables a user to associate an image from the first video or uploaded by the user and/or text specified by the user with a user-specified position of a given video, an association of a first image and/or a first text with a first position of the first video;
store the association of the first image and/or a first text with the first position;
cause the first image and/or the first text to be presented at the first position in a scrubber area overlaying a playback area while the first video is playing in a video player via a second user device, the video player comprising the playback area and the scrubber area;
enable a corresponding navigation event to occur at least partly in response to a user selecting the first image and/or the first text while the first video is playing;
wherein the scrubber area is defined by a scrubber bar and an area directly adjoining the scrubber bar, and the scrubber bar comprises a slider tool that enables a user to scrub forward through the first video by dragging the slider tool, wherein the scrubber bar, the first image and/or the first text is displayed at least partially in the playback area, and
wherein the first position comprises:
a time stamp indicating a first point in time in the video at which the first image and/or the first text is to be displayed, and

wherein the first image and/or the first text is displayed at least partly in response to a second user action;

receive a search query from a given user device;
use a search engine to identify one or more matching videos;
cause at least a portion of search results to be presented on the given user device, the search results including respective images associated with respective videos included in the search results, wherein the search results are displayed in with a plurality of user-selectable search result sort controls, the plurality of user-selectable search result sort controls comprising a recentness control; and
cause the search results to be presented via the given user device in an order sorted in accordance with a user selection of a given sort control in the plurality of search result sort controls displayed with the search results.