Ascertaining events in media

摘要

Disclosed are various embodiments relating to the identification of events that occur within a media item. A media item and a request are encoded for rendering for display, wherein the request relates to an occurrence of an event in the media item. The media item and the request are transmitted to a plurality of clients. A plurality of replies are received in response to the request, wherein each of the replies comprises a timestamp indicating a time relative to the media item. The existence of an event in the media item is determined based at least in part on a clustering of at least a subset of the replies.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, comprising:
code that encodes for display a media item and a request associated with the media item to be sent to a plurality of client devices to be rendered on the plurality of client devices; code that receives a plurality of replies in response to the request from the plurality of client devices, wherein each of the plurality of replies includes a timestamp representative of a point in time in the media item, and at least one of the plurality of replies includes a comment relating to the media item; code that determines where an event occurred in the media item based at least in part on a clustering of at least a subset of the plurality of replies received from the plurality of client devices; code that determines a degree of accuracy for each of the plurality of replies by determining a validation score for each of the plurality of replies; and code that awards an amount of points to at least a subset of a plurality of users, the amount of points being determined based at least in part on the timestamp included in a respective one of the plurality of replies and the clustering of the at least a subset of the plurality of replies.