Patent ID: 8407750

Claim:
A method of enabling users of peer to peer clients to socially interact while viewing videos, the method comprising: using a first client to access a first video and a second client to access a second video, wherein the first video and the second video are for the same show and are in different formats and the first video and the second video are not required to be from the same source; enabling the users of the first client and the second client to socially interact with each other using peer to peer communications between the first client and the second client that are physically remote to each other; and synchronizing the first video and the second video using a visual signature based on color associated with at least one of the videos, wherein the using of the signature associated with the at least one of the videos to synchronize the first video and the second video further comprises using a second visual signature based on changes in light and darkness associated with the at least one of the videos.