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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2008
James P. Craig, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric M. Circlaeys, Paris, FR;
Kjell Bronder, San Francisco, CA (US);
James P. Craig, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric M. Circlaeys, Paris, FR;
Kjell Bronder, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, a method includes receiving a request to initiate recording of media content of an event. The method also includes controlling capturing of the media content by a capture machine in response to the received request. The method includes opening a chat session among one or more persons that are listeners or viewers of the event being captured, wherein the opening is in response to the request to initiate recording of the media content. The chat session comprises one or more entries that include a chat input from the one or more persons and a timecode of the chat input. The method includes receiving a request to stop recording of the media content of the event. The method also includes combining at least a subset of the one or more entries of the chat session with the media content using the time code of the one or more entries.