Patent Document ID: 8826357
Application ID: 12389359

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing a source video file in a video database; storing annotations in an annotations database in association with the source video file; providing to a remote client device a user interface comprising a video area displaying one or more frames of the source video file; providing to the client device a first web-based user interface portion associated with the source video file and comprising visual representations of a plurality of different annotation types; responsive to receiving a user selection of one of the annotation types from the client device, providing to the client device a second web-based user interface portion comprising at least one text area for entering a start time, an end time, and a uniform resource locator (URL) for a new annotation; receiving a user designation of a spatial location in a frame of the source video file based on a user click within the displayed one or more frames of the source video file; receiving a user designation of the start time, the end time, and the URL from the client device via the second user interface portion, the URL separately encoding both an identifier of a target video file and a time location within the target video file, the target video file being different from the source video file; adding, to the annotations database in association with the source video file, a first annotation corresponding to the designated start time, end time, and URL, and further corresponding to the spatial location in the frame of the source video file; responsive to receiving a request from the client device for the source video file, transmitting the source video file and the associated first annotation to the client device; and responsive to receiving a user selection of the first annotation, causing playback of the target video file to begin at the time location within the target video file.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the client device displays the first annotation as part of the source video file during playback of the source video file, and wherein the user selection of the first annotation occurs during the playback of the source video file.