Patent ID: 9596516
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,G09G,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a video preprocessor executed by a video content item provider, an image depicting a first object; pre-processing a video content item separate from the received image, by the video preprocessor, to identify one or more occurrences of the first object being depicted in one or more frames of the video content item; causing presentation of the video content item at a user device, by a video server executed by the video content item provider, including the one or more frames of the video content item that depicts the first object; receiving, by the video server from the user device, a selection of the first object depicted in a first frame, the first frame being associated with a video content item; receiving, by the video server from the user device, a first reference to additional content for the first object; and generating a first tag for the first object, by a tag attacher executed by the video content item provider, the first tag including the first reference, and the first tag including instructions that cause presentation of the additional content referenced by the first reference concomitant with playback of the video content item.