Social data associated with bookmarks to multimedia content
View Patent ↗Members of a social network service may share real-time comments about multimedia content they are viewing. The comments are attached to bookmarks that allow other members to view the video and add to the discussion thread.
1. A computer-implemented method for a metadata service to accumulate and organize data relating to videos, the method comprising a metadata service performing the steps of:
receiving social data relating to videos from members of at least two Internet-based social network services (SNS), the social data associated with specific time points during the videos, the videos provided to the SNS members by video sources;
storing video bookmarks for the videos;
storing the social data indexed to the video bookmarks, the video bookmarks marking the time points associated with the social data but without storing clips of the videos;
providing the video bookmarks to SNS members, wherein the video bookmark includes a thumbnail of a frame of the video from the marked time point, and wherein the SNS member activating the video bookmark causes playback by the video source of the video from the marked time point; and
wherein the metadata service is operated by an entity different than entities operating the social network services and the video sources.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the social data includes SNS members' comments about the video.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the social data includes annotations on the video added by SNS members.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the social data includes SNS members' recommendations, SNS members' preferences and/or SNS members' likes/dislikes.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the social data includes sharing/collaborations between SNS members.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the social network services is operated by Facebook.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the social network services is operated by Twitter.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the social network services is an instant messaging service, a chat service or other messaging service.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmarks support activating the video bookmark from one device and playing back the video on a different device.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein a format of the video changes depending on the device used to playback the video.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmark is created during production of the video.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the video bookmark also allows access to different renditions from other unused pre-production videos.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmark is created post-production of the video.
14. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmark is created by SNS members.
15. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmark is created by using instant messages.
16. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmark is created by the metadata service.
17. The method of claim 1 wherein the video bookmark is created from an app on a wearable device.
18. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving SNS metadata and storing the SNS metadata indexed to video bookmarks.
19. The method of claim 1 wherein the SNS metadata includes at least one of: SNS member profiles, SNS group profiles, SNS member pictures, SNS member names, SNS member hashtags, SNS member IDs, and SNS group IDs.
20. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving interaction metadata and storing the interaction metadata indexed to video bookmarks.
21. The method of claim 1 wherein the interaction metadata includes at least one of: local time of the day, SNS member locations, SNS member device types, SNS member preferences for video playback.
22. The method of claim 1 wherein the interaction metadata includes at least one of: playback duration of the videos, text for the videos, audio/voice for the videos, and faces or other identifiable objects from the videos.
23. A computer program product for use with a computer, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer program code embodied therein for enabling a metadata service to accumulate and organize data relating to videos, the computer program code performing the steps of:
receiving social data relating to videos from members of at least two Internet-based social network services (SNS), the social data associated with specific time points during the videos, the videos provided to the SNS members by video sources;
storing video bookmarks for the videos;
storing the social data indexed to the video bookmarks, the video bookmarks marking the time points associated with the social data but without storing clips of the videos;
providing the video bookmarks to SNS members, wherein the video bookmark includes a thumbnail of a frame of the video from the marked time point, and wherein the SNS member activating the video bookmark causes playback by the video source of the video from the marked time point; and
wherein the metadata service is operated by an entity different than entities operating the social network service and the video sources.