Patent ID: 11968425
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system comprising:
circuitry configured to:
generate for display a video in a shared session;
generate for display, simultaneously with the video, images of users participating in the shared session;
receive an indication of a physical gesture by a first user participating in the shared session, wherein the physical gesture identifies an image of a second user of the users participating in the shared session;
determine a context of the physical gesture based on at least one of: the video or user profile information of the first user performing the physical gesture; and
in response to receiving the indication of the physical gesture, transmit a message that is based on the determined context from a first device of the first user to a second device of the second user.