Patent ID: 9385913
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: at a first media player device operated by a first user, defining a first waypoint pair and a second waypoint pair for a piece of content, the first and second waypoint pairs each comprising a first waypoint defining a beginning point of a corresponding media clip and a second waypoint defining an ending point of the corresponding media clip, each media clip being a different portion of the same piece of content; generating, with a camera of the first media player device, a video message that includes newly captured audio that annotates the two media clips defined by the first and second waypoint pairs for the piece of content; identifying a second user by accessing a list of social network contacts from a social network account of the first user; and generating a transmission from the first media player device to a second media player device associated with the second user, the transmission from the first media player device to the second media player device including the video message that includes the captured audio that annotates the two media clips defined by the first and second waypoint pairs for the piece of content, the first and second waypoint pairs, a content identifier for the piece of content, and metadata indicating that the two media clips defined by the first and second waypoint pairs should be caused to be concatenated by the second media player device, the second media player device being caused to generate, based on data in the metadata, a thumbnail image as a graphical representation of the concatenated media clips in a user interface of the second media device.