20130312049 | AUTHORING, ARCHIVING, AND DELIVERING TIME-BASED INTERACTIVE TV CONTENT - A social television system provides for the authoring, archiving, and delivering of interactive social television content. A social television service provider receives the identity of a television show that is being watched on a first display screen. The social television service provider delivers corresponding social television content to a second display screen. The social television content is to be displayed on the second display screen at certain timeframes during the playback of the television show on the first display screen. Various entities may author social television content. The authoring process may be facilitated by obtaining data from web-based data sources. The authoring process may take place via a website hosted by the social television service provider. The authoring process may also take place via a third-party website that is connected to the social television service provider via a software development kit. | 11-21-2013 |