Patent attributes
An example process includes: storing a profile of a user of an interactive video system; receiving a selection from a computing device of the user to watch a channel of video that is available through the interactive video system; adding, based on the selection, at least some of the identifying information to a data structure; identifying, based on the data structure, a group of users, which includes the user, who are watching the channel of video during a same time period; generating data representing graphical objects associated with the users in the group who are watching the channel of video during the same time period and available to interact via the interactive video system; and outputting the data to the video device of the user to enable rendering the graphical objects on a display screen of the video device.