Twitter, Inc.

Noah Vihinen

Indranrita Deshmukh

Michael Ben Fleischman

Deb Kumar Roy

Jeremy Rishel

Richard Douglas Whitcomb, Jr

Mark Watabe

Andrew John Carroll

Artur B Adib

Baljeet Singh

David Regan

Michael George Folgner

Yi Wang

David Richards

George Oliver Young

Scott Listfield

Joel Lunenfeld

Ryan Brice Cunningham

Tom Woolway

Thomas Stephen Woolway

A system and method including: a request to display a message stream for a context account of a social media platform may be received by a client device; a preview video including a set of video snippets of a source video may be identified by the client device; automatic playback of the preview video in a playback area displayed inline with the message stream may be initiated; a user input indicating a request to play the source video may be received by the client device; and playback of the source video may be initiated in response to the request for the source video.

Video preview mechanism

A real time messaging platform identifies an audio snippet of a time-based media (TBM) event. The messaging platform maintains a real time repository of concurrently broadcasting TBM events as well as a historical repository of previously broadcast TBM events. These repositories contain acoustic fingerprints of their respective TBM events. The messaging platform matches an acoustic fingerprint of the audio snippet with one of the stored acoustic fingerprints to identify the TBM event in the recorded snippet. To identify the TBM event, the messaging platform matches multiple overlapping reference audio segments of the reference audio stream with multiple test audio segments of the audio snippet. This allows the platform to account for time delays between the test and reference audio segments that would otherwise hinder the matching process.

Identification of concurrently broadcast time-based media

A system and method for providing content for broadcast by a messaging platform, including: receiving an identifier selected by a user of a client computing device during composition of a message; identifying a content provider associated with the identifier; providing, by a computer processor, a set of content items of the content provider for presentation by the client computing device, wherein the user of the client computing device selects a content item from the presented set of content items; and broadcasting the message with a reference to the selected content item to a plurality of accounts of the messaging platform.

Providing content for broadcast by a messaging platform

According to an aspect, a system for implementing a video clip service may include a video editor configured to receive a broadcast media stream and obtain a volume of social media engagements of a social media platform. The social media engagements include user engagements on the social media platform about the broadcast stream. The video editor may include a correlator configured to correlate the volume of social media engagements with a timeline of the broadcast media stream, a moment detector configured to detect one or more segments of the broadcast media stream using the volume of social media engagements, and a clip creator configured to automatically create a video clip with the one or more segments. The system may also include a video surfacer configured to provide the video clip for inclusion in a content stream of one or more users of the social media platform.

Video clip creation using social media

A system and method including: a source video for broadcast by a social media platform may be received; a set of video snippets may be extracted from the source video; a subset of the video snippets may be joined to form a preview video; a request for content for an account of the social media platform may be received from a client device; and the preview video may be provided to the client device for automatic playback by the client device in a playback area displayed inline with a message stream of the account.

Video preview generation

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Wenham, MA, United States of America

Noah Vihinen