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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
May. 15, 2018
Fox Broadcasting Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joseph B. Earley, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Tedd Charles Rosenfeld, Tarzana, CA (US);
Steven Edward Simonian, Los Angeles, CA (US);
FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY, LLC, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for presenting a media program concurrently with viewer questions and live commentary about the media program is disclosed. As the media program is broadcasted, messages from the first group regarding the media program are accepted. The accepted messages are filtered to identify suitable messages of interest and to present only those messages to a second group for comment. The identified messages from the first group and comments from the second group are added to the broadcast media program concurrently or in real time.