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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2017
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Linda Roberts, Boynton Beach, FL (US);

E-Lee Chang, Mableton, GA (US);

Ja-Young Sung, San Jose, CA (US);

Natasha Barrett Schultz, Suwanee, GA (US);

Robert King, Roswell, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/236 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/8549 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); G11B 27/00 (2013.01); H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/23418 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04N 21/8549 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to present an overlay to be combined with media content during presentation at each of a plurality of computing devices to illustrate a collection of user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the media content, wherein the portions of the media content comprise portions of a media on demand presentation in an interactive television network, collect the user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices, identify target portions of the media content that each satisfy a threshold number of comments and non-target portions of the media content that do not satisfy the threshold number of comments, generate comment groups of the user-generated comments, and provide the comment groups to the plurality of computing devices for presentation in the overlay.


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