Methods, systems, and products for indexing scenes in digital media

• US 10,037,323 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2014
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: McQuaide, Jr., Arnold Chester
• Primary Examiner(s): Rush, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/261,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20140236961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 382100, 382284, 382305, 382325, 725 32, 725 38, 725 40, 725 42, 725 51, 725 60, 725 86, 725 87, 348584, 348589, 369 4713
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7343 Query language or query format
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/236 Assembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. transport stream, by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, e.g. inserting a URL [Uniform Resource Locator] into a video stream, multiplexing software data into a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, e.g. to obtain a constant bit-rate; Assembling of a packetised elementary stream multiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/80 Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se arrangements for generating broadcast information H04H60/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products index digital scenes in digital media. A uniform resource locator is assigned to each different digital scene within the digital media. The uniform resource locator uniquely identifies a resource from which each different digital scene may be retrieved. Individual scenes may thus be retrieved, thus conserving bandwidth and memory.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server, an electronic query from a client device, the electronic query requesting digital media, and the electronic query specifying information associated with a title of the digital media;

querying, by the server, an electronic database for the information associated with the title of the digital media, the electronic database electronically associating scene indexes and titles including the information associated with the title of the digital media;

retrieving, by the server, a scene index of the scene indexes in the electronic database that is electronically associated with the information associated with the title of the digital media, the scene index associating promotional objects appearing in the digital media to scenes within the digital media;

retrieving, by the server, the digital media having a menu of contents;

inserting, by the server, a blank frame into the digital media;

copying, by the server, the scene index into the blank frame;

adding, by the server, the scene index to the menu of contents; and

sending, by the server, the digital media to the client device, the digital media having the scene index added to the menu of contents.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating a uniform resource locator to the scene index.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating different uniform resource locators to different scenes associated with the digital media.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request for the scene index associated with the digital media.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising adding an entry to the scene index describing at least one of the promotional objects.

6. A system, comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a memory device, the memory device storing instructions, the instructions when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving an electronic query from a client device, the electronic query requesting digital media, and the electronic query specifying information associated with a title of the digital media;

querying an electronic database for the information associated with the title of the digital media, the electronic database electronically associating scene indexes and titles including the information associated with the title of the digital media;

retrieving a scene index of the scene indexes in the electronic database that is electronically associated with the information associated with the title of the digital media, the scene index associating promotional objects appearing in the digital media to scenes within the digital media;

retrieving the digital media having a menu of contents;

inserting a blank frame into the digital media;

copying the scene index into the blank frame;

adding the scene index to the menu of contents; and

sending the digital media to the client device, the digital media having the scene index added to the menu of contents.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise associating a uniform resource locator to the scene index.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise adding the scene index to an index of scenes associated with the digital media.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise associating different uniform resource locators to different scenes in the digital media.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a request for the scene index associated with the digital media.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise adding an entry to the scene index describing at least one of the promotional objects.

12. A non-transitory processor-readable memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving an electronic query from a client device, the electronic query requesting digital media, and the electronic query specifying information associated with a title of the digital media;

querying an electronic database for the information associated with the title of the digital media, the electronic database electronically associating scene indexes and titles including the information associated with the title of the digital media;

retrieving a scene index of the scene indexes in the electronic database that is electronically associated with the information associated with the title of the digital media, the scene index associating promotional objects appearing in the digital media to scenes within the digital media;

retrieving the digital media having a menu of contents;

inserting a blank frame into the digital media;

copying the scene index into the blank frame inserted into the digital media;

assigning a new scene to the scene index copied into the blank frame inserted into the digital media;

adding the scene index to the menu of contents; and

sending the digital media to the client device, the digital media having the scene index added to the menu of contents.

13. The non-transitory processor-readable memory device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise associating a uniform resource locator to the scene index.

14. The non-transitory processor-readable memory device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise adding the scene index to an index of scenes associated with the digital media.

15. The non-transitory processor-readable memory device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise associating different uniform resource locators to different scenes in the digital media.

16. The non-transitory processor-readable memory device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise uniquely identifying the new scene with a scene index tag that differentiates the scene index from other scenes in the digital media.

17. The non-transitory processor-readable memory device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a request for the scene index; and

adding an entry to the scene index describing at least one of the promotional objects.