Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Talko Inc.

Howard Benjamin Nager

Raymond Edward Ozzie

Cyrus Kanga

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Zhangwei Xu

Szymon Piotr Stachniak

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Ransom Lloyd Richardson

Jason Robert Tuck

Neil Warren Black

Russell P Songco

William F Schiefelbein

Mario Esposito

Richard Zack Speyer

Matthew Jason Pope

John Darren Elliott

Joshua C Zana

Clinton Chi-Wen Woon

Matthew Fuller Sly

Jeffrey Lupien

Alexander D Tudor

Heather Grantham Brodie

Neil Bousquet Ozzie

Keh-Li Sheng

Don F Box

Matthew Alan Medak

Eric Christopher Voreis

Ronald Oswin Pessner Jr

Marc Victor Haddah

Alexander James Soule

Methods and systems for integrated communications are pro-vided. In one embodiment, a user input is received via a user interface. Media data is received in response to receiving the user input. The media data is streamed to one or more communication system users. In some embodiments, the media data is posted to a shared virtual space associated with a communication system channel. Other methods and systems are described.

Communication system

Embodiments of the present invention provide secondary content that is synchronized to progress within a primary media content. The secondary content, may be a comment, an emote, a poll, a contextual advertisement, a special feature, or other communication synchronized to a particular point in the media. Examples of media include movies, games, television shows, sporting events, video conferences, online chat sessions, and others. Some events are synchronized using time sequencing to a particular spot within a time-based media content. The events may be published through social media outlets. The progress point associated with the event may be directly accessed by selecting a link within the event.

Synchronization of media interactions using context

Methods and systems for integrated communications are provided. In one embodiment, a user input is received via a user interface. Media data is received in response to receiving the user input. The media data is streamed to one or more communication system users. In some embodiments, the media data is posted to a shared virtual space associated with a communication system channel. Other methods and systems are described.

A time-shifted digital content item is played via a playback screen, and an updateable companion timeline associated with the time-shifted digital content item is accessed. The updateable companion timeline includes one or more timeline events, and each timeline event has a trigger time corresponding to a playback time in the time-shifted digital content item. Responsive to reaching a playback time that matches a trigger time of one of the one or more timeline events during playback of the time-shifted digital content item, the timeline event having that trigger time is rendered.

Companion timeline with timeline events

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Howard Benjamin Nager