Patent ID: 8904432
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: authenticating a set-top box as being associated with a subscription to a community content overlay service, wherein, in connection with the community content overlay service, content is transmitted to a plurality of set-top boxes via one or more service provider networks, and wherein one or more portions of the content correlate with a community of the set-top boxes based on a respective user profile associated with each set-top box of the community of set-top boxes, wherein the set-top box is further associated with one or more general media broadcasts; receiving the content of the one or more general media broadcasts and the community content overlay service transmitted via the one or more service provider networks; and generating, by the set-top box, a displayable application for presenting the portions of the received content, wherein the portions of the content are determined based on the correlations between the received content and the respective user profile associated with the set-top box, wherein the displayable application is configured to be presented as an overlay over video content being presented during a viewing of the one or more general media broadcasts and wherein the community of set-top boxes are permitted to share and/or exchange the received content using the displayable application and the overlay is based, at least in part, on metadata searchable and extractable by the plurality of set-top boxes.