PROCESSING OF USER-SPECIFIC SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TIME-SHIFTED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

摘要

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for processing social media posts. The methods may include a filtering module receiving a stream of social media posts. The filtering module may acquire one or more filtering criteria. The filtering module may, using the acquired filtering criteria, filter the received stream to extract, from the stream, those social media posts that relate to the certain multimedia content. The filtering module may then, without providing the extracted social media posts for playback, at a current time, on a client device, store (e.g., within a database) the extracted social media posts for future provision to the client device.

主权项

1. A method of processing social media posts, the method including:
receiving, by a filtering module, a user-specific input stream comprising a first plurality of social media posts from a social networking service; acquiring, by the filtering module, from a client device associated with a user, one or more content-specific filtering criteria that relate to a certain multimedia content; filtering, by the filtering module, in accordance with the one or more content-specific filtering criteria, the user-specific input stream to extract, from the user-specific input stream, a second plurality of social media posts that relate to the certain multimedia content; and without concurrently providing the second plurality of social media posts for playback on a playback device associated with the user, for each of the second plurality of social media posts, storing data corresponding to that social media post in a storage module operatively coupled to the filtering module; wherein for each of the second plurality of social media posts, the data corresponding to the social media post is for ascertaining a time reference for the social media post, such that the second plurality of social media posts is accessible for future provision to the playback device, and for playback, in the playback device, synchronously with a playback by the user of the certain multimedia content.