Inventors:
Michael Fink - Jerusalem, IL
Ryan Junee - San Francisco CA, US
Sigalit Bar - Cupertino CA, US
Aviad Barzilai - Haifa, IL
Isaac Elias - Haifa, IL
Julian Frumar - San Francisco CA, US
Herbert Ho - San Jose CA, US
Nir Kerem - Har Adar, IL
Simon Ratner - San Francisco CA, US
Jasson Arthur Schrock - Mountain View CA, US
Ran Tavory - Haifa, IL
Virginia Wang - San Francisco CA, US
Leora Wiseman - Zichron Yaakov, IL
Mihai Badoiu - New York NY, US
Ankur Bhargava - Cambridge MA, US
Igor Kofman - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:
Google Inc. - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
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.