A WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE GENERATION OF INTERACTIVE VIDEOS

• Main Authors: KEREM, NIR, HO, HERBERT, KOFMAN, IGOR, WANG, VIRGINIA, RATNER, SIMON, FINK, MICHAEL, BARZILAI, AVIAD, BADOIU, MIHAI, JUNEE, RYAN, FRUMAR, JULIAN, WISEMAN, LEORA, MUTHUKRISHNAN, SHANMUGAVELAYUTHAM, TAVORY, RAN, BHARGAVA, ANKUR, ELIAS, ISAAC, BAR, SIGALIT, SCHROCK, JASSON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 10.12.2009
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior of an existing video, e.g. by supplementing it with text, allowing linking to other videos or web pages, or pausing playback of the video. Authentication of a user desiring to perform annotation of a video may be performed in various manners, such as by checking a uniform resource locator (URL) against an existing list, checking a user identifier against an access list, and the like. As a result of authentication, a user is accorded the appropriate annotation abilities, such as full annotation, no annotation, or annotation restricted to a particular temporal or spatial portion of the video.