Providing sketch annotations with multimedia programs

摘要

A method for collaborative sketch annotating of a program of multimedia content includes enabling a first user to create a sketch annotation, enabling the first user to store sketch annotation data related to the sketch annotation, and enabling a second user to access the sketch annotation. The second user may navigate the program using the sketch annotation and/or an indication of the sketch annotation. The first user may create the sketch annotation while viewing the program, for example, and the program may be paused for adding the sketch annotation to one or more paused frames. The sketch annotations may include chronological information indicative of a chronological location of the sketch annotation within the program.

主权项

1. A content annotation method, comprising:
receiving, from a first client associated with a first viewer viewing multimedia content selected from television content, pay-per-view content, and video on demand content, a first user input indicative of a first annotation including an image and a second user input indicative of a first annotation duration wherein annotations of the first viewer include source identification features indicative of the first viewer as a source of the annotations; wherein the source identification features are selected from: a source identification avatar and a source identification icon; associating the first annotation with a first temporal location of the multimedia content; providing, by a data processing system, the multimedia content, the first annotation, and the first temporal location to a second client associated with a second viewer of the multimedia content, wherein, upon displaying the multimedia content, the second client displays the first annotation at the first temporal location, for the first annotation duration, overlaying the multimedia content; and responsive to receiving a second annotation, a second temporal location, and a second annotation duration from the second viewer, the first client, upon displaying the multimedia content, displays the second annotation at the second temporal location, for the second annotation duration, overlaying the multimedia content.