Video-production system with social-media features

• US 10,412,142 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2016
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tribune Broadcasting Company Incorporated (Nexstar Media Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tribune Broadcasting Company Incorporated (Nexstar Media Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hundemer, Hank J., Lasher, Dana
• Primary Examiner(s): Chou, Alan S
• Application Number:
  US15/211,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20170019452A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,152 Days
• Field of Search: 709231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23424 : involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 : involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 : involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/262 : Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists scheduling strategies for dispatcher in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/4881; arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/06; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a time schedule or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 : Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 : for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 : Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 : Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 : for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 : End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 : involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 : involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• 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 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 : Content authoring

Abstract

In one aspect, a method includes (i) accessing, by a computing system, a social media (SM) platform, (ii) selecting, by the computing system, a SM content item published on the SM platform, (iii) responsive to selecting the SM content item, the computing system receiving an account identifier and a timestamp each corresponding to the selected SM content item, (iv) using, by the computing system, the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform, and (v) integrating, by the computing system, the retrieved SM content item into a video program.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing, by a computing system, a social media (SM) platform;

selecting, by the computing system, a SM content item published on the SM platform;

responsive to selecting the SM content item, the computing system receiving an account identifier and a timestamp each corresponding to the selected SM content item;

using, by the computing system, the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform, wherein using the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item comprises;

accessing a webpage corresponding to the received account identifier on the SM platform, wherein the webpage comprises a plurality SM content items each having a corresponding timestamp on the webpage,

identifying, using the received timestamp, the SM content item on the webpage,

wherein identifying the selected SM content item on the webpage comprises;

(i) identifying one timestamp on the webpage that matches the received timestamp, and

(ii) identifying, as the selected SM content item, the SM content item on the webpage corresponding to the identified timestamp on the webpage matching the received timestamp, and retrieving the identified SM content item from the webpage; and

integrating, by the computing system, the retrieved SM content item into a video program.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the account identifier identifies a publisher of the SM content item on the SM platform and the timestamp indicates a time of publication of the SM content item on the SM platform.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving the identified SM content item on the webpage comprises the computing system screen-scraping the webpage to (i) identify data corresponding to the identified SM content item and (ii) copy the identified data into a data storage unit of the computing system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing system indirectly accesses the SM platform via a SM dashboard application, and wherein the computing system selects the SM content item via the SM dashboard application.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to selecting the SM content item, the computing system receiving a platform identifier indicating the SM platform on which the SM content item is published,

wherein accessing the webpage comprises;

(i) determining a uniform resource locator (URL) based on the received account identifier and the platform identifier, and

(ii) using the determined URL to access the webpage.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining the URL comprises:

determining a domain name based on the received platform identifier;

determining a file path based on the received account identifier; and

determining the URL using the determined domain name and the determined file path.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the SM content item comprises dragging and dropping an object associated with the SM content item.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein accessing the SM platform comprises accessing the SM platform via a web browser application, and the method further comprises:

displaying the web browser application in a first application window of a user interface; and

displaying a drop-target object in a second application window of the user interface,

wherein dragging and dropping the object comprises (i) dragging the object from the first application window to the drop-target object displayed in the second application window and (ii) dropping the object on the drop-target object.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the SM content item comprises an image and the object is the image.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieved SM content item comprises at least an image of the SM content item, text of the SM content item, and a profile picture associated with a publisher of the SM content item on the SM platform.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein integrating the retrieved SM content item comprises executing a digital-video effect (DVE).

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the received timestamp indicates a time at which the selected SM content item was published on the SM platform.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein each timestamp corresponding to an SM content item of the plurality of SM content items on the webpage indicates a time differential between a time at which the computing system accessed the webpage and the time at which the SM platform published the SM content item, and wherein identifying the one timestamp on the webpage that matches the received timestamp comprises determining the time differential for the one timestamp.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the SM platform does not provide an Application Programming Interface (API) for requesting the SM content item,

wherein using the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform comprises using the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform responsive to determining that the SM platform does not provide the API for requesting the SM content item.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a comparison of a timestamp corresponding to the retrieved SM content item to timestamp information stored in a cache storage for one or more previously retrieved SM content items;

determining, based on the comparison of the timestamp to the timestamp information, that the retrieved SM content item was previously stored in the cache storage; and

responsive to determining that the SM content item was not previously stored in the cache storage, storing the SM content item in the cache storage.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, program instructions that when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to perform a set of acts comprising:

accessing, by the computing system, a social media (SM) platform;

selecting, by the computing system, a SM content item published on the SM platform;

responsive to selecting the SM content item, the computing system receiving an account identifier and a timestamp each corresponding to the selected SM content item; and

using, by the computing system, the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform, wherein using the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item comprises;

accessing a webpage corresponding to the received account identifier on the SM platform, wherein the webpage comprises a plurality SM content items each having a corresponding timestamp on the webpage,

identifying, using the received timestamp, the SM content item on the webpage, wherein identifying the selected SM content item on the webpage comprises;

(i) identifying one timestamp on the webpage that matches the received timestamp, and

(ii), identifying, as the selected SM content item, the SM content item on the webpage corresponding to the identified timestamp on the webpage matching the received timestamp, and

retrieving the identified SM content item from the webpage.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the set of acts further comprises integrating the retrieved SM content item into a video program.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein retrieving the identified SM content item on the webpage comprises screen-scraping the webpage to (i) identify data corresponding to the identified SM content item and (ii) copy the identified data into a data storage unit of the computing system.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein accessing the SM platform includes accessing the SM platform via a web browser application, and the set of acts further comprises:

displaying the web browser application in a first application window of a user interface; and

displaying a drop-target object in a second application window of the user interface,

wherein dragging and dropping the object includes (i) dragging the object from the first application window to the drop-target object displayed in the second application window and (ii) dropping the object on the drop-target object.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein selecting the SM content item comprises dragging and dropping an object associated with the SM content item.

21. A computing system comprising a processor and a memory having program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to perform a set of acts comprising:

accessing, by the computing system, a social media (SM) platform;

selecting, by the computing system, a SM content item published on the SM platform;

responsive to selecting the SM content item, the computing system receiving an account identifier and a timestamp each corresponding to the selected SM content item; and

using, by the computing system, the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform, wherein using the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item comprises;

accessing a webpage corresponding to the received account identifier on the SM platform, wherein the webpage comprises a plurality SM content items each having a corresponding timestamp on the webpage,

identifying, using the received timestamp, the SM content item on the webpage, wherein identifying the selected SM content item on the webpage comprises;

(i) identifying one timestamp on the webpage that matches the received timestamp, and

(ii) identifying, as the selected SM content item, the SM content item on the webpage corresponding to the identified timestamp on the webpage matching the received timestamp, and

retrieving the identified SM content item from the webpage.