Patent ID: 8402504
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a user-generated interactive program hosted by a moderator for transmission over a communications network to a plurality of viewers, comprising: dynamically extracting captions and program information from a broadcast media content by an intelligent caption and program information extractor; dynamically organizing, semantic tagging, time coding, and putting the captions and program information in a media content database by the intelligent caption and program information extractor; coupling a moderator server to the communications network and the media content database; coupling a moderator client for use by the moderator and a plurality of viewer clients for use by the plurality of viewers to the moderator server through the communications network; dynamically getting the organized, semantic tagged, and time coded captions and program information by the moderator server from the media content database and transmitting the organized, semantic tagged, and time coded captions and program information to the moderator client; editing the captions by the moderator using the moderator client; generating moderator comments by the moderator using the moderator client; editing viewer comments for viewing by the plurality of viewers by the moderator using the moderator client; transmitting the organized, semantic tagged, and time coded edited captions and program information, moderator comments, and edited viewer comments from the moderator client to the moderator server and receiving the edited viewer comments, the moderator comments, and the organized, semantic tagged, and time coded captions and program information at the moderator server; dynamically generating the user-generated interactive program by the moderator server utilizing the received moderator comments, the received edited viewer comments, the received organized, semantic tagged, and time coded edited captions and program information, and the media content, wherein the dynamically generating the user-generated interactive program comprises: transmitting the user-generated interactive program by the moderator server to the viewer clients through the communications network.