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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Perry Tobin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing visual hot watch spots in content item playback on a content sharing platform is disclosed. The method includes separating, by a processing device of a content sharing platform, a duration of a content item into time interval segments. The method further includes, for each of the time interval segments, determining a score for the time interval segment in view of one or more signals indicating a popularity of the time interval segment to users viewing the content item on the content sharing platform, and providing a visual indication of the score for the time interval segment of the content item in a user interface presenting the content item.