Patent ID: 9015778
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing, by a system including a processor, an overlay to be combined with media content during presentation at each of a plurality of computing devices on an internet protocol television network to illustrate a collection of user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the media content, wherein the portions of the media content comprise portions of a media on demand presentation; collecting, by the system, the user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices; providing, by the system, the user-generated comments to the plurality of computing devices for presentation in the overlay; identifying, by the system, target portions of the media content that each satisfy a threshold number of comments and non-target portions of the media content that do not satisfy the threshold number of comments, wherein the target portions are associated with corresponding target comments of the user-generated comments, and wherein the non-target portions are associated with non-target corresponding comments of the user-generated comments; and generating, by the system, a video on demand catalog that includes the target portions of the media content and the corresponding target comments without including the non-target portions of the media content and the non-target corresponding comments.