Broadcast video monitoring and alerting system

• US 20060117040A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Behzad Shahraray, Bernard S. Renger, Bin Wei, David Crawford Gibbon, Huale Huang, Lee Begeja, Rittwik Jana, Yih-Farn Chen, Zhu Liu
• Original Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gibbon, David Crawford, Shahraray, Behzad, Wei, Bin, Liu, Zhu, Renger, Bernard S., Jana, Rittwik, Chen, Yih-Farn, Begeja, Lee, Huang, Huale
• Granted Patent: US 8,924,383 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles

Abstract

Described is a system and method for automatic monitoring and dissemination of media content. The system and method include a content acquisition platform receiving media content from at least one source and storing the media content in a media storage platform, a media processing platform segmenting the media content based upon predetermined criteria defined by a user and storing metadata corresponding to the segmented media content in the media storage platform, an alert platform providing the user with an alert identifying the segmented media content, the alert including at least a portion of the metadata stored in the media storage platform and a content delivery platform sending the segmented media content to a device of the user.

Claims

1. A system for automatic monitoring and dissemination of media content, comprising:

a content acquisition platform receiving media content from at least one source and storing the media content in a media storage platform;

a media processing platform segmenting the media content based upon predetermined criteria defined by a user and storing metadata corresponding to the segmented media content in the media storage platform;

an alert platform providing the user with an alert identifying the segmented media content, the alert including at least a portion of the metadata stored in the media storage platform; and

a content delivery platform sending the segmented media content to a device of the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the media content includes one of a video file and an audio file.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the source of the video file is one of a broadcast television program, a surveillance camera, a satellite broadcast and Internet Protocol streaming media.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the audio file is one of an MP3 file, an MPEG-2 file and a wave file.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the metadata is one of embedded data in the media content and derived data from processing of the media content.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the metadata includes one of a topic boundary, a topic keyword, a representative image, a scene boundary, a dialog, a dialog approximation and electronic program guide data.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the media processing platform includes an automatic speech recognition engine and the one of the dialog and dialog approximation is derived from automatic speech recognition of the segmented media content.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the predetermined criteria are stored in an interest profile for the user.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the content delivery platform includes a content repurposing engine that formats the segmented media content for display on the device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the content repurposing engine formats the segmented media content based on information stored in a device profile for the user.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert platform includes at least one gateway to handle protocol interfaces to the device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the protocol interfaces include one of an electronic mail protocol interface, an HTTP protocol interface, a pager protocol interface, a facsimile protocol interface, a SMS protocol interface, an instant messaging protocol interface, a SIP protocol interface, a MMS protocol interface, an audio protocol interface, a text-to-speech protocol interface and a Voice XML protocol interface.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert platform includes at least one server to perform one of device account verification and scheduling.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert includes one of text, an image, audio information and video information.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a tracking module to track a status of the alert, wherein the alert includes a unique identification for tracking.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile device.

17. A method of alerting users of received media content, comprising:

receiving media content from at least one source;

storing the media content in a media storage platform;

segmenting the media content based upon predetermined criteria defined by a user;

storing metadata corresponding to the segmented media content in the media storage platform;

creating an alert identifying the segmented media content, the alert including at least a portion of the metadata stored in the media storage platform; and

sending the alert to the user.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

sending the segmented media content to a mobile device of the user.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the sending step is performed in response to a request for the segmented media content from the user.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

converting the segmented media content into a form suitable for delivery to the device.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the alert is in the format of one of an electronic mail, an HTTP message, a pager message, a facsimile, an SMS message;

an instant message, an MMS message and a voice message.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined criteria includes one of a keyword and a topic selected by the user.

23. A system, comprising a memory storing a set of instructions and a processor executing the set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions are operable to:

receive media content from at least one source;

store the media content in a media storage platform;

segment the media content based upon predetermined criteria defined by a user;

store metadata corresponding to the segmented media content in the media storage platform;

create an alert identifying the segmented media content, the alert including at least a portion of the metadata stored in the media storage platform; and

send the alert to the user.