Patent ID: 7739584

Claim:
A method for displaying a message indicator in association with a predetermined interval of playback of an audiovisual production, the method comprising: playing back the audiovisual production in a first screen display size; displaying the message indicator during at least a portion of the predetermined interval of playback of the audiovisual production; determining that a user has selected the message indicator while the message indicator is displayed; automatically resizing the first screen display size to be a second screen display size that is smaller than the first screen display size, the second screen display size including the playback of the audiovisual production; providing a text window, wherein at least a portion of the text window is included in a portion of space previously occupied by the first screen display size; displaying at least a portion of a message in response to the user selection of the message indicator in the text window, wherein the message is included in a thread of a plurality of messages; providing an interface via which ratings for respective of a plurality of messages in a thread can be selected; providing an interface via which filtering and/or sorting of the plurality of messages can be selected based at least in part on associated ratings; in response to receiving a first user input, displaying one or more messages in a third screen display size and automatically pausing playback of the audiovisual production while displaying the one or more messages in the third screen display size, wherein the third screen display size is larger than the second screen display size and is larger than the text window; and in response to receiving a second user input after receiving the first user input, resuming playback of the audiovisual production.