Patent ID: 9386357
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of displaying a plurality of presentation elements, the method comprising: displaying, on a user interface, a progress bar, a length of the progress bar being representative of a duration of a multimedia presentation, a point along the length of the progress bar corresponding to a point within the multimedia presentation; displaying, on the progress bar, a first point along the length of the progress bar, the first point being distinct from an end of the progress bar; displaying, on the progress bar, a second point along the length of the progress bar, the second point being different from the first point; automatically selecting a plurality of communications of secondary content from consumers of the multimedia presentation, each one of the plurality of communications being relevant to a selected time interval defined by the first point and the second point; automatically generating, for display on the user interface, a time interval summary comprising information relevant to the selected time interval, the information being dependent on one or more selected communications from the plurality of communications, wherein the one or more communications are automatically selected based on a criterion selected from a group consisting of: a user preference for communications of secondary content liked by other users, a user preference for communications of secondary content from a user-specified plurality of other users, and ratings given to communications by other users; and displaying, on the user interface, the time interval summary; wherein each communication has been composed in relation to a respective point or range within the multimedia presentation within the selected time interval, and wherein each of the communications comprise one or more content items; wherein each content item is selected from a group of content items consisting of media items, multimedia items, references to media items, and references to multimedia items; wherein each content item has been selected depending on at least part of the communication and content information relating to content of the multimedia presentation; wherein the points or ranges within the multimedia presentation that the communications have been composed in relation to are between points in the multimedia presentation that correspond to the first point and the second point; and wherein the time interval summary comprises a summary selected from a group consisting of: a filtered selection of communications from the one or more communications, a text summary based on the one or more communications, and a video summary comprising a selection of video clips associated with the one or more communications.