Patent ID: 8224756
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: utilizing a processor for providing to a plurality of computing devices, an overlay combined with media content for presentation by each of the plurality of computing devices to illustrate one or more user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the presented media content utilizing a time line and annotations along the time line that are representative of each of the one or more user-generated comments, wherein at least a portion of the one or more user-generated comments are shared among the plurality of computing devices; collecting at the processor, the one or more user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices; utilizing the processor for detecting a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices; utilizing the processor for facilitating establishment of a social network that includes at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation; monitoring additional user-generated comments associated with the social network that are originated from the at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices; determining a decorrelation in the additional user-generated comments; and removing at least one computing device of the at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices from the social network based on the determined decorrelation without terminating the social network.