Google patents browser tool that shows extra info while you watch videos
This patent describes a web browser extension that detects when you are watching a video on a website. It identifies the specific moment in the video and displays small cards with extra details, such as facts or context, next to the video player.
In the filing’s own words
A method for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content may include receiving an indication from a web browser extension executing within a web browsing application that a media content item is being presented on a content provider website; identifying the media content item being presented on the content provider website; determining whether supplemental content associated with the broadcasted media content item is available; in response to determining that the supplemental content is available, causing the web browser extension to present an indicator that the supplemental content is available; obtaining the supplemental content corresponding to the broadcasted media content item, wherein each piece of the supplemental content is associated with timing information of the broadcasted media content item; and causing a portion of the obtained supplemental content to be presented concurrently with the media content item in response to detecting that the indicator has been selected.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: presenting, by an application executing on a computing device, a media content item on a display of the computing device, the media content item being displayed in a video window of a user interface for the application; determining, by the application, a playback position for the media content item while presenting the media content item in the video window; associating image data corresponding to the media content item with the playback position; determining that supplemental information is available for the image data by processing information extracted from the image data, the supplemental information being relevant to the playback position of the media content item; in response to determining that supplemental information is available for the image data, presenting an availability indicator in the user interface; in response to receiving an indication of the selection of the availability indicator, presenting, by the application, the supplemental information in a plurality of cards in the user interface concurrently with presenting the media content item in the video window, each of the plurality of cards presenting information relevant to a context of the playback position of the media content item; and receiving an indication that the supplemental information included on a card of the plurality of cards was viewed and liked.
Facts
- Company
- Google (GOOGLE LLC)
- Official title
- Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content
- Patent number
- US12732667B2
- Application number
- 18768930
- Filed
- Jul 10, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
H04N 21/4722 Electricity & electronicsG06F 16/903 Physics & computingG06F 16/951 Physics & computingH04N 21/2225 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/2665 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/43074 Electricity & electronicsMore from Google in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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