Google Inc.

Herbert Ho

Jasson Schrock

Julian Frumar

Ryan Junee

Simon Ratner

Michael Fink

Ran Tavory

Sigalit Bar

Isaac Elias

Aviad Barzilai

Nir Kerem

Igor Kofman

Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan

Yu Pan

Leora Ruth Wiseman

Mihai Badoiu

Virginia Wang

Richard Benjamin Leider

Ankur Bhargava

Mohan V Nibhanupudi

Erik Klein

Slave Jovanovski

Leora Wiseman

Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior of an existing video, e.g. by supplementing it with text, allowing linking to other videos or web pages, or pausing playback of the video. Authentication of a user desiring to perform annotation of a video may be performed in various manners, such as by checking a uniform resource locator (URL) against an existing list, checking a user identifier against an access list, and the like. As a result of authentication, a user is accorded the appropriate annotation abilities, such as full annotation, no annotation, or annotation restricted to a particular temporal or spatial portion of the video.

Web-based system for collaborative generation of interactive videos

Community interaction during video viewing is provided. A video hosting website includes videos available for viewing. Users establish lists of friends, who are other users of the video hosting site. When a user logs on, her presence is made known by an interaction engine to her friends that are also logged in to the site. The user's activities are tracked and her friends are notified of those activities. Tracked activities may include viewing a video, rating a video, commenting on a video, uploading a video to the site, and adding a new friend. Friends are notified of these activities in one embodiment through one or more user interface elements. A user can select a user interface element to discover which of her friends are also watching the same video at that time. A user watching a video can summon her online friends to the watch page to watch collaboratively.

Real-time interaction during video viewing

Web-based system for generation of interactive games based on digital videos

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Herbert Ho