Patent ID: 10257150

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to social network media streaming, and to the sharing of comments about the media content by users of the network. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide a comment lock module that determines and assigns the locking position of a comment to a position within the media stream, e.g. at a particular time code, and restricts viewing of the comment according to its locking position. Thus, a locked comment allows unrestricted viewing access to a user only after the user watched the video past the position that the comment was locked to. The media content may be categorized and/or filtered to allow the user to focus on consuming and sharing primarily positive inspirational content. Specific embodiments provide default and selectable options for determining and assigning the locking position including automatic options by the system, and optionally interactive selectable options provided by the system's GUI that integrates one or more user of the network into determining and assigning the locking position.