Personalizing media presentations based on a target duration

• US 20030110501A1
• Filed: 12/12/2001
• Published: 06/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Rafey, Richter A., Hofrichter, Klaus, Godes, Jerrold
• Application Number:
  US10/020,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20030110501A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• 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 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• 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 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method and system for personalizing media presentations based on a target duration is disclosed. The process includes assembling content for viewing based upon a specified duration.

Claims

1. A method comprising arranging content for viewing based upon a user specified duration.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein arranging further comprises selecting content based upon content preferences and providing selected content for no more than the user specified duration.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein providing is selected from the group consisting of presenting the arranged content to the user and storing the arranged content.

4. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the content preferences are selected from the group consisting of preferences set by an editorial staff and preferences set by the user.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4, wherein the content further comprises data enabling selection of content based upon content and preferences.

6. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the content preferences selected from the group consisting of explicitly developed user preferences and implicitly developed preferences based upon at least one user'"'"'s usage.

7. A method comprising:

specifying a time budget for recording a program; and

arranging content based upon priorities to fit within the time budget.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, further comprising storing arranged content.

9. The method as set forth in claim 8, wherein priorities are selected from the group consisting of user preferences and priorities of content providers.

10. A method comprising:

receiving content and associated data indicating content segment locations, descriptions and duration; and

arranging selected content in accordance with a time budget, the content selected determined using content segment location, descriptions and duration.

11. The method as set forth in claim 10 wherein receiving comprises receiving multiple versions of content of varying lengths, the arranging selecting a version of content within the time budget.

12. The method as set forth in claim 10 wherein the descriptions comprise descriptions of the content and the content segment locations comprises segment locations of corresponding descriptions.

13. The method as set forth in claim 10, wherein arranging further comprises reorganizing according the time budget and priorities provided in segment descriptions.

14. An apparatus configured to arrange viewing content based upon a user specified time duration.

15. The apparatus as set forth in claim 14, wherein time duration of at least a portion of the content is indicated by data associated with the content, said apparatus further configured to identify time durations of segments of content and arrange the content using identified time durations of segments.

16. The apparatus as set forth in claim 15, further configured to refine arrangement of content according to preferences.

17. The apparatus as set forth in claim 15, wherein the data comprises metadata.

18. The apparatus as set forth in claim 17, further configured to analyze user preferences, priorities, and time duration of segments and arrange content based upon user preferences, priorities and time duration.

19. The apparatus as set forth in claim 14, wherein the apparatus is located at one of a service provider, local to the storage device to store arranged data, remote from the storage device to store arranged data, local to the viewing device to view arranged content.