Google Inc.

Nikhil Dandekar

Eileen Margaret Peters Long

Gilman Tolle

Brian Becker

Antonia Hidalgo

Siobhan Quinn

Mengya Tang

Xiaxiang Lin

Fangxiaoyu Feng

Methods, systems, and media for presenting user comments containing timed references in synchronization with a media content item are provided. In some embodiments, a method for presenting user comments during media playback that includes: obtaining a plurality of comments associated with a media content item; determining a subset of comments from the plurality of comments that contains at least one of a plurality of timed references to the media content item; determining a series of time windows, wherein each time window in the series of time windows corresponds to a segment of the media content item; associating one or more comments from the subset of comments with a time window from the series of time windows, wherein the time window contains a time referenced in a comment; receiving a request to receive comments that are synchronized with playback of the media content item; and, in response to receiving the request to receive comments that are synchronized with playback of the media content item, causing a first comment associated with a first time window to be presented concurrently with a first portion of the media content item that corresponds with the first time window and a second comment associated with a second time window to be presented concurrently with a second portion of the media content item that corresponds with the second time window.

Methods, systems, and media for presenting user comments containing timed references in synchronization with a media content item

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Nikhil Dandekar