Method and system for providing social media content synchronized to media presentation

摘要

A computer system provides a method for delivering a video stream to a viewer and delivering, in synchrony with the video stream, social media content created during the current and previous viewings of the video stream by first-time viewers of the video stream.

主权项

1. In a computer system, a method for playback of a video stream together with associated media content characterized by:
presenting a video stream for display on a first user device; retrieving from storage first media content associated with the video stream along with a first media offset time stamp relative to the video stream; presenting the first media content to a second user device at a time in the video stream corresponding to a time indicated by the first media offset time stamp; receiving from a third user device second media content associated with the video stream; determining if the second media content is generated by a naïve viewer; and if the second media content is generated by a naïve viewer of the video stream:
associating a second media offset time stamp relative to the video stream with the second media content;storing the second media content with the associated second media offset time stamp; andpresenting the second media content to the second user device.