Patent Document ID: 9743118
Application ID: 15289585

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a first media device, a rant video generated by a first community member who is a member of a plurality of community members, wherein the rant video presents personal opinions and views of the community member about at least one of a thematic content event and a genre or topic pertaining to the thematic content event, and wherein the rant video presents an assertion that the community member is knowledgeable about some aspect of the thematic content event and the genre or topic pertaining to the thematic content event; generating a proof video from the received rant video, wherein the proof video comprises: the rant video; information identifying the first community member who generated the rant video; and information identifying the thematic content event and the genre or topic pertaining to the thematic content event; storing the generated proof video with a plurality of other proof videos generated by other community members; receiving, after storing the generated proof video, a request for the generated proof video from a second community member who is another member of the plurality of community members, wherein the request includes information that identifies the first community member; and communicating the proof video to a second media device used by the requesting second community member, wherein the proof video is presented by the second media device to the second community member.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, after communicating the proof video to the second community member, one of an affirmation vote and a denial of affirmation vote from the second media device used by the second community member, wherein the affirmation vote and the denial of affirmation vote includes a unique identifier that identifies one of the first community member or the proof video; wherein the affirmation vote is an affirmation of the first community member's assertion presented in the proof video, wherein the denial of affirmation vote is a denial of affirmation of the first community member's assertion presented in the proof video; affirming the first community member's assertion only when a total number of affirmation votes for the first community member exceeds a threshold or when a ratio of affirmation votes to denial of affirmation votes exceeds a ratio threshold.