Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Rajeswaran Venugopal

NarayanaDhoss Gopalakrishnan

Maria M Sagayaraj

Sundar Sivaraman

Ganesh Ramasamy

Arunkumar Surulinathan

Poothabalan Somasundaram

Ramprasath Hariharan

Thamilenthi Palanivelu

Saravanan Vijayakumar

Manjunathan Ramanathan

Ravi Chandra Appasani

A system and method are presented for navigating through image frames of video content to display particular frames of the video content while the video content continues to play. The system provides a viewer the ability to interact with and operate a device playing video content using touch input or input from a peripheral device to permit locating and displaying particular frames of video content concurrently with ongoing display of the video content.

Method and system for navigating video to an instant time

Methods and related systems are presented that relate to establishing communications among individuals connected through social networking services. To obtain the contact information of an encountered connection, a person may take a photo of the connection and provide information indicating how he/she knows the connection. Using the provided information, a subset of the person's connections in the social networking services that he/she belongs to is selected. The photos included in the profiles of the connections in the selected subset are searched and a profile that includes an image with features matching the features of the obtained image is selected. Once a match is found, personal information of the connection is obtained from his/her profile and transmitted to the person. The individuals can establish connection using the obtained personal information.

Method and apparatus for establishing a connection with known individuals

A set of user content items, such as a set of photographs or audio or video recordings, is used to identify recommended locations. Each item of user content in the set includes a geographical identifier and a time-stamp indicative of the location and time of origin of the item. The items of user content are placed in time-order, and a route is determined that links, in time-order, the locations identified by the geographical identifiers. A recommended location is then identified, from a database of recommended locations, that is located near the determined route but is not geographically coincident with the locations of any of the items of user content. Information for a map containing the route and an illustration of the identified location are sent to a terminal device for presentation to a user.

Methods and systems for creating virtual trips from sets of user content items

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Tamil Nadu, India

Rajeswaran Venugopal