APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEDIA ON DEMAND COMMENTARIES

摘要

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to present an overlay to be combined with media content during presentation at each of a plurality of computing devices to illustrate a collection of user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the media content, wherein the portions of the media content comprise portions of a media on demand presentation in an interactive television network, collect the user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices, identify target portions of the media content that each satisfy a threshold number of comments and non-target portions of the media content that do not satisfy the threshold number of comments, generate comment groups of the user-generated comments, and provide the comment groups to the plurality of computing devices for presentation in the overlay.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
providing, by a system including a processor, an overlay to be combined with media content during presentation at each of a plurality of computing devices to illustrate a collection of user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the media content, wherein the portions of the media content comprise portions of a media on demand presentation in an interactive television network; collecting, by the system, the user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices; identifying, by the system, target portions of the media content that each satisfy a threshold number of comments and non-target portions of the media content that do not satisfy the threshold number of comments, wherein the target portions are associated with corresponding target comments of the user-generated comments, and wherein the non-target portions are associated with non-target corresponding comments of the user-generated comments; generating, by the system, comment groups of the user-generated comments, wherein the user-generated comments of the comment groups are associated with a group of users selected by a common geographic area, a common subject interest or a combination thereof; and providing, by the system, the comment groups to the plurality of computing devices for presentation in the overlay.