Patent ID: 9560417
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for collaboratively viewing video content, the method comprising: creating a streaming community, the community including a manager, a plurality of users and a video stream comprising a plurality of videos contributed by the manager and one or more users of the plurality of the users; determining location of each video of the plurality of videos in a stream library based on a number of votes associated with each video received from the one or more users of the streaming community, the stream library in a first portion of a user interface associated with the community for displaying the plurality of videos; displaying the plurality of videos in the stream library based on the determined locations associated with the plurality of videos; responsive to a request from a user in the community to view a video in the video stream, displaying the requested video to the user in a second portion of the user interface; and while concurrently displaying the videos of the plurality of videos in the stream library to the plurality of users and the requested video in the second portion of the user interface to the user who requested the video, responsive to receiving a chat message from the user, displaying the chat message concurrently to the plurality of users in a community chat room, the community chat room in a third portion of the user interface for displaying chat messages from users of the plurality of the users, the chat message displayed concurrently with an indicia of the video of the video stream being displayed to the user.