Sales presentation video on demand system
First Claim
1. A method for presenting a televised sales presentation broadcast which comprises, in combination, the steps of:
- recording a sales presentation to create a video program stored in a program storage device, said sales presentation including a plurality of program segments each of which describes a particular object, product or service that is being offered by one or more vendors, creating metadata that identifies and describes each of said plurality of program segments of said video program as stored, transmitting said metadata to a presentation device, displaying a segment guide containing information in said metadata on said presentation device, said segment guide including elements which identify at least selected ones of said plurality of segments, employing a control device operated by a viewer and coupled to said presentation device for selecting a specified one of said elements, retrieving the particular segment identified by said specified one of said elements from said storage device, transmitting said particular segment to said presentation device, and displaying said particular segment for said viewer on said presentation device
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Abstract
A system for replaying a sales presentation television program using a video on demand (VOD) or digital video recording (DVR) system. Metadata is created that subdivides the original broadcast into segments, and associates descriptive information with each segment. Playlists that specify an ordered subsequence of the sequence may be selected and used to present a variety of expanded or condensed versions of the sales presentation program originally broadcast to a viewer. Navigation controls including segment and subsegment lists, specially formatted screen displays, and special functions under the control of a user-operated remote control, facilitate the interactive selection and control of the presentation.
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1. A method for presenting a televised sales presentation broadcast which comprises, in combination, the steps of:
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recording a sales presentation to create a video program stored in a program storage device, said sales presentation including a plurality of program segments each of which describes a particular object, product or service that is being offered by one or more vendors, creating metadata that identifies and describes each of said plurality of program segments of said video program as stored, transmitting said metadata to a presentation device, displaying a segment guide containing information in said metadata on said presentation device, said segment guide including elements which identify at least selected ones of said plurality of segments, employing a control device operated by a viewer and coupled to said presentation device for selecting a specified one of said elements, retrieving the particular segment identified by said specified one of said elements from said storage device, transmitting said particular segment to said presentation device, and displaying said particular segment for said viewer on said presentation device - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for selecting and playing individual segments of a recorded video sales presentation program comprising, in combination,
receiving from a media provider metadata comprising a plurality of segment descriptors, each of which specifies a specified segment of said recorded sales presentation program that describes a particular object, product or service being offered and at least a text description of said object, product or service described by said specified segment, displaying a composite image on a display screen consisting of: -
a video image area for reproducing the video content of one of said segments of said recorded sales presentation program, and a segment guide area displaying said text description of said object, product or service described by each of a plurality of said segments, accepting the identification one of said plurality of segments from a viewer operated control device, and displaying said given one of said plurality of segments in said video image area. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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