PLAYING AND EDITING LINKED AND ANNOTATED AUDIOVISUAL WORKS

摘要

In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining metadata that relates to a video program and that defines, for one or more specified time points in the video program, one or more web services to be invoked at those time points; generating and displaying, on a computer, a video window that is configured to play the video program; during playing the video program on a computer, detecting that the video program is playing at one of the time points and determining an identifier of a particular web service associated with that one of the time points; in response to the detecting, causing the computer to invoke the particular web service.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform:
obtaining metadata that relates to a video program and that defines, for one or more specified time points in the video program, one or more web services to be invoked at those time points; generating and displaying, on a computer, a video window that is configured to play the video program; obtaining and playing the video program on the computer; during playing the video program, detecting that the video program is at one of the time points and determining an identifier of a particular web service associated with that one of the time points; in response to the detecting, causing the computer to invoke the particular web service.