Patent ID: 9535988
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,G11B

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of comment entries entered by a plurality of users while displaying a multimedia content to the plurality of users; partitioning the multimedia content into a plurality of multimedia segments based on the received plurality of comments, each multimedia segment being a portion of the multimedia content, the multimedia content including metadata, wherein the metadata comprises the plurality of comment entries, each comment entry including text entry data; receiving after the partitioning a filter configuration comprising a set of filter attributes, the filter attributes defining criteria for selection of multimedia segments based on comment entries made by the plurality of users; selecting multimedia segments having comment entries with associated metadata that matches the set of filter attributes; receiving a user input to merge a first comment entry of a first selected multimedia segment and a second comment entry of a second selected multimedia segment; merging the first comment entry and the second comment entry into a single merged comment entry in response to receiving the user input to merge; merging video clips associated with the first and second selected multimedia segments into a single merged video clip in response to receiving the user input to merge; and generating an edited version of the multimedia content that includes only the merged multimedia segments edited to include the merged comment entry and the merged video clip after the user input to merge is received.