Google Inc.

Maryrose Dunton

Yu Pan

Hong Qu

Ches Wajda

Erik Klein

Christoform Miller

James Byrne

Anna Nguyen

A system, method and various user interfaces enable association of advertising content with requested shared video content for access via a web-based video player. Advertising content is provided selectively in conjunction with playback of video content. A rating system allows users to rate advertisements. Correspondence is then established between the video clips and the advertising content responsive to the selected rating.

Ratable video advertisements

A system, method and various user interfaces enable visually browsing multiple groups of video recommendations. A video stream includes a group of videos to be viewed and commented by users who join the stream. Users who join a stream form a stream community. In a stream community, community members can add videos to the stream and interact collaboratively with others community members, such as chatting in real time with each other while viewing a video. With streams, a user can create a virtual room in an online video content distribution environment to watch videos of the streams and interact with others while sharing videos simultaneously. Consequently, users have an enhanced video viewing and sharing experience.

Collaborative streaming of video content

Collaborative streaning of video content

Growing community of inventors

Oakland, CA, United States of America

Maryrose Dunton