Patent Document ID: 9396192
Application ID: 14090600

Base Claim:
1. A method for tagging a media asset, the method comprising: receiving, with control circuitry, a plurality of communications from a plurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of communications includes words spoken by a respective one of the users while accessing the media asset, and wherein each of the communications is associated with a media asset play position during which the respective words were spoken; selecting a subset of the plurality of communications for which the associated media asset play position is within a range of play positions, the range of play positions being shorter than a duration of the media asset; identifying, with the control circuitry, a word that a threshold number of the selected communications have in common; retrieving from an attribute database an attribute associated with the word; and assigning the retrieved attribute to the media asset within the range of play positions.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising: retrieving closed-captioning information corresponding to the range of play positions; identifying a subject based on the retrieved closed-captioning information; and associating the attribute with the identified subject.