Patent ID: 9071871
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of associating metadata with digital content items, comprising: receiving, at a computing device, an audio or video digital content item including one or more community-applied tags, each community-applied tag dynamically applied to the audio or video digital content item during previous consumption of the audio or video digital content item by members of a community based on a respective comparison of one or more response levels of the community to a threshold, each community-applied tag indicating a specific timestamped portion of the audio or video digital content item that includes a temporally-defined audio or video segment that the community collectively deems to be inappropriate or otherwise objectionable for a user, the one or more response levels indicating a response of the community to the timestamped portion, where tags are also applied to the audio or video digital content item by a companion device during previous consumption of the audio or video digital content item at the computing device; and during subsequent consumption of the audio or video digital content item at the computing device, automatically skipping or muting timestamped portions tagged as including the temporally-defined audio or video segment.