Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC

Joseph B Earley

David Bradley Wertheimer

Edward A Skolarus

William Bradford

Steven Edward Simonian

Tedd Charles Rosenfeld

Ori Nakar

Bryan J Gonzalez

Matthew Moroz

Nicole H Ruby

A method and apparatus for presenting a media program concurrently with viewer questions and live commentary about the media program is disclosed. As the media program is broadcasted, messages from the first group regarding the media program are accepted. The accepted messages are filtered to identify suitable messages of interest and to present only those messages to a second group for comment. The identified messages from the first group and comments from the second group are added to the broadcast media program concurrently or in real time.

Method and apparatus for concurrent broadcast of media program and social networking derived information exchange

A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for allocating and committing votes in a variety of voting paradigms is described. In one embodiment, the method describes a system applicable in a plurality of time zones and comprises determining if an allocation of at least a portion of Nvotes among one or more candidates is received from a first user via a first device during a first period, accepting and storing the allocation of votes, only if the allocation is received during the first period, receiving a user command committing the stored allocation of the Nvotes among the plurality of candidates, determining if the command is received during a second period, and committing the stored first user allocation of Nvotes among the one or more candidates only if the command is received during the second period.

Method and apparatus for batch voting on live broadcasts

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Joseph B Earley