Patent ID: 11941222
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
a memory; and
a processing device, coupled to the memory, to perform operations comprising:
providing a channel graphical user interface (GUI) of a content sharing platform for presentation to a channel owner, the channel GUI comprising GUI elements that represent channel management options allowing the channel owner to perform operations related to management of a channel of the channel owner, the channel comprising a plurality of content items, the channel management options comprising adding new content items to the channel, removing existing content items from the channel, and managing privacy settings of the channel;
receiving, via the channel GUI comprising the GUI elements representing the channel management options comprising adding the new content items to the channel, removing the existing content items from the channel, and managing the privacy settings of the channel, a request of the channel owner to enable an online community option that (i) facilitates an online conversation between the channel owner and a subset of viewers of the channel of the channel owner on the content sharing platform, and (ii) allows the channel owner to control viewer responses that are permitted during the online conversation;
in response to the request of the channel owner to enable the online community option:
associating the online community option with the channel in a data store; and
modifying the channel GUI for presentation to the channel owner, the modified channel GUI presenting an online community GUI element representing the online community option together with the GUI elements representing the channel management options comprising adding the new content items to the channel, removing the existing content items from the channel, and managing the privacy settings of the channel;
upon a selection of the online community GUI element representing the online community option in the modified channel GUI by the channel owner, providing a post creation GUI to allow the channel owner to submit a post to initiate the online conversation between the subset of viewers and the channel owner, the post creation GUI comprising one or more post GUI elements to receive at least one of a title of the post or a content of the post, and a response GUI element to receive permissible viewer responses;
providing the channel GUI comprising the GUI element representing the online community option for presentation to a viewer of the viewers of the channel; and
in response to a selection of the GUI element representing the online community option by the viewer of the channel in the channel GUI, providing the online community GUI comprising the at least one of the title or the content of the post of the channel owner, and allowing the viewer of the channel to provide a permissible viewer response to the post of the channel owner.