Patent ID: 8504484

Claim:
A method, comprising: presenting, by a communication device, media content; receiving, by the communication device, a first user-generated comment; presenting, by the communication device, an overlay that is combined with the media content, wherein the overlay illustrates user-generated comments that are associated with portions of the media content, wherein the user-generated comments include the first-user generated comment and other user generated comments from other computing devices, wherein at least a portion of the user-generated comments are shared among a plurality of computing devices that includes the communication device and the other computing devices; receiving, by the communication device, an invitation to access a social network that has been established among at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices, wherein the social network is established according to a correlation detected in the user-generated comments; receiving, by the communication device, a second user-generated comment; transmitting, by the communication device, the second user-generated comment to a server of the social network; and receiving, by the communication device, a denial of access to the social network responsive to a detection of a decorrelation between the second user-generated comment and additional user-generated comments of the social network.