YouTube Exploring Interactive Gaming?

Google filed a patent earlier this year and published it earlier this month indicating that it is exploring the addition of interactive gaming to its YouTube video-sharing site, as reported in the BNET Technology Blog.

The patent is titled Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos, and, according to BNET, its abstract reads:

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.

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