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Patent No.:

US 9674135 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2015

Sharing television and video programming through social networking

Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ime Archibong, San Francisco, CA (US);

Gregory Joseph Badros, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, San Francisco, CA (US);

David Harry Garcia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mark Heynen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brian Krausz, Mountain View, CA (US);

Cameron Alexander Marlow, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Erick Tseng, San Francisco, CA (US);

Yoon Kean Wong, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

William J Kim

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/63 (2011.01); H04N 21/23 (2011.01); H04N 21/4227 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/6543 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 17/30277 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 65/1089 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/23 (2013.01); H04N 21/258 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4227 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/4344 (2013.01); H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/632 (2013.01); H04N 21/6543 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content.

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