Patent Document ID: 8112702
Application ID: 12033817

Base Claim:
1. The method for managing annotations associated with a first video, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of annotations for one or more intervals of the first video, each annotation having a reputation score associated with a user providing the annotation; assigning a weight to each annotation based on the reputation score; forming a plurality of groups, each group including annotations for intervals of the first video that are similar to each other; determining a first group having related annotations based on the assigned weights of the annotations; and forming a first annotated clip of the first video based upon the intervals in the first group.

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Claim 18:
18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving a plurality of annotations associated with one or more intervals of a second video; forming a plurality of groups for the second video, each group including annotations for intervals of the second video that are similar to each other; determining a first group for the second video having related annotations for a similar interval in the second video; and forming a first annotated clip of the second video based upon the intervals in the first group for the second video; and ranking the first video and the second video based on a number of annotations associated with each annotated clip of the first video and of the second video.