Patent ID: 8725816

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for sharing video between members of a social network service (SNS), the method comprising: in real-time while one or more member(s) of an existing Internet-based social network service are each viewing a video: receiving comments about the video from the viewing member(s); organizing the comments into a discussion thread for the video, the discussion thread further comprising video bookmarks, wherein the comments are attached to video bookmarks and each video bookmark comprises a frame of the video that marks a time point in the video corresponding to the comment, the video bookmarks enabling playback of the video in different formats on different devices; and sharing the discussion thread with members of the social network service according to privacy rules for the social network service, wherein members can join or modify their viewing of the video by activating video bookmarks and can provide further comments to the discussion thread; storing the discussion thread for subsequent searching; and publishing public parts of the discussion thread for subsequent searching, wherein the video bookmarks can be further shared with members of a second existing Internet-based social network service according to privacy rules for the second social network service.