Patent ID: 8196168

Claim:
In a system for sharing television program viewing experiences between users of an electronic user community, said users of electronic user community sharing some viewing interests, wherein users watch portions of a program, generate a user rating for said portions indicating the opinion of the users of the respective portions and a tag is generated for each portion based on the respective user ratings, a method of presenting a program to a first user of said electronic user community, the method comprising: receiving a program by a program player device associated with said first user, said device including a screen for presenting said program to said one of said users, said program including a first portion and a second portion following said first portion; receiving by said program player device a first and a second tag associated with said first and second portions, respectively; and generating a graphic overlay on said screen, said graphic overlay being partially overlapped on said screen while said first portion of said program is shown wherein at least during said first portion, both said first portion and said graphic overlay are shown to said one user simultaneously, said graphic overlay representing said first and said second tags to indicate to said one user how the other users of said electronic user community have rated said second portion.