Delivering and processing multimedia bookmark

• US 20050210145A1
• Filed: 03/03/2005
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vivcom, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Vivcom, Inc.
• Inventors: Chun, Seong Soo, Kim, Hyeokman, Sull, Sanghoon, Kim, Jung Rim, Yoon, Ja-Cheon
• Application Number:
  US11/071,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20050210145A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/743 a collection of video files or sequences
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream

Abstract

A multimedia bookmark (VMark) bulletin board service (BBS) system comprises: a web host comprising storage for messages, a web server, and a VMark BBS server; a media host comprising storage for audiovisual (AV) files, and a streaming server; a client comprising storage for VMark, a web browser, a media player and a VMark client; and a VMark server located at the media host or at the client; a communication network connecting the web host, the media host and the client. A method of performing a multimedia bookmark bulletin board service (BBS) comprises: creating a message including a multimedia bookmark for an AV file; and posting the message into the multimedia bookmark BBS. A method of sending multimedia bookmark (VMark) between clients comprises: at a first client, making a VMark indicative of a bookmarked position in an AV program; sending the VMark from the first client to a second client; and playing the program at the second client from the bookmarked position. A system for sharing multimedia content comprises: a multimedia bookmark bulletin board system (BBS); and means for posting a multimedia bookmark to the BBS.

Claims

1. A multimedia bookmark (VMark) bulletin board service (BBS) system comprising:

a web host comprising storage for messages, a web server, and a VMark BBS server;

a media host comprising storage for audiovisual (AV) files, and a streaming server;

a client comprising storage for VMark, a web browser, a media player and a VMark client;

a VMark server located at the media host or at the client; and

a communication network connecting the web host, the media host and the client.

2. The BBS system of claim 1, wherein:

the media host comprises the VMark server for capturing a multimedia bookmark image at a requested bookmarked position of a given AV file stored at the storage of the media host and sending the image to the multimedia bookmark client of the client through the communication network.

3. The BBS system of claim 1, wherein

the client comprises the VMark server for capturing a multimedia bookmark image at a requested bookmarked position of a given AV file being played at the media player and passing the image to the multimedia bookmark client of the client locally.

4. The BBS system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for creating the VMark for a bookmarked position in a given AV file; and

means for saving the VMark in the client storage.

5. The BBS system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for uploading the VMark to the VMark BBS server; and

means for retrieving a message including the VMark of a given AV file from the VMark BBS server and playing the AV file from a bookmarked position without manually locating a bookmarked position in the AV file.

6. A method of performing a multimedia bookmark bulletin board service (BBS) comprising:

creating a message including a multimedia bookmark for an AV file; and

posting the message into the multimedia bookmark BBS.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein:

the message comprises a body section and a multimedia bookmark section.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

reading the message from the BBS.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

monitoring multimedia bookmark servers running at media hosts; and

reporting multimedia bookmark usage information.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating advertising multimedia bookmarks; and

attaching the advertising multimedia bookmarks to user'"'"'s e-mails and news letters of a BSS provider.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating a multimedia bookmark storyboard of an AV file.

12. A method of sending multimedia bookmark (VMark) between clients comprising:

at a first client, making a VMark indicative of a bookmarked position in an AV program;

sending the VMark from the first client to a second client; and

playing the program at the second client from the bookmarked position.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the VMark comprises:

bookmarked position; and

descriptive information of the program.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the VMark further comprises one or more of the following:

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a bookmarked program;

content information such as an image captured at a bookmarked position;

textual annotations attached to a segment that contains the bookmarked position;

title of the bookmark;

metadata identification (ID) of the bookmarked program; and

bookmarked date.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein:

if, previous to sending the VMark from the first client to a second client, the AV program has been recorded at the second client, playing the program at the second client from the bookmarked position; and

if, previous to sending the VMark from the first client to a second client, the AV program has not been recorded at the second client, recording the program later at the second client, then playing the program from the bookmarked position; and

recording the program later comprises;

rebroadcasting the program later;

or

broadcasting the program on a different channel.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein:

if, previous to sending the VMark from the first client to a second client, the AV program has not been recorded at the second client, recording the program later at the second client, then playing the program from the bookmarked position; and

recording the program later comprises;

searching an electronic program guide (EPG) for the program utilizing descriptive information of the program included in the VMark;

or

searching remote media hosts connected with a communication network for the program utilizing descriptive information of the program included in the VMark.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

at the second client, keeping information on location resolution for associating the descriptive information of the recorded or downloaded program with the physical location of the program stored in local storage; and

searching the information on location resolution for the program when playing the program.

18. A system for sharing multimedia content comprising:

a multimedia bookmark bulletin board system (BBS); and

means for posting a multimedia bookmark to the BBS.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising:

means for creating a multimedia bookmark for a bookmarked position in an AV file;

means for saving the multimedia bookmark in the client storage; and

means for uploading a message including the multimedia bookmark for the AV file into the multimedia bookmark BBS server.

20. The system of claim 18, further comprising:

means for retrieving a message including the multimedia bookmark for an AV file from the multimedia bookmark BBS server; and

means for playing the AV file by utilizing the multimedia bookmark without manually locating the bookmarked position in the AV file.