Patent Document ID: 8495489
Application ID: 13473027

Base Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, for allowing an end-user to create and share annotated comments on an image published on a digital content platform, comprising: instruction, executable by at least one processing device, that when executed cause the processing device to (1) provide an annotation interface to allow a first end-user to create an annotation on an image published on a digital content platform, (2) provide a comment entry interface to receive a comment from the first end-user, (3) receive, link, and store the annotation and the comment in a database, (4) identify when a second end-user accesses the comment on the digital content platform, (5) display the annotation to the second end-user, wherein the display of the annotation to the second end-user is triggered when the second end-user accesses the comment, (6) match the image, annotation, or comment to an advertisement, and (7) display the advertisement to the second end-user proximate to the annotation, wherein the advertisement is contextually relevant to the image, annotation, or comment.

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Claim 7:
7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the annotation interface is a third-party in-image application.