Media player system

• US 20060136577A1
• Filed: 01/18/2006
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hansen, James S., Hiemstra, Martina, Chikkareddy, Umachandra, Stern, Denise, Bohm, Melissa A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,506,019 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• 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 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

Abstract

A method, system, and computer readable medium are provided for the media player system. The present invention provides for associating content with media and integrating the content associated with media into a pane displayed by a media player. The media player system includes a shuttle component to obtain provider data, a first database component to store content and associated media metadata, a user interface to manage the first database user interface, an input component to insert provider data into the first database, and an output component to generate pane and search files. The media player system includes a user interface to display a pane for the media with associated content. The pane includes a media display component to display streamed media and a content display component to display content associated with the streamed media.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having a data structure stored thereon for use in associating content with media and integrating the content associated with media into a media player, the data structure comprising:

a control data element indicative of job control information;

one or more item data elements that are indicative of information about an item of content associated with media;

one or more media elements that are indicative of media metadata and associated with said item of content; and

wherein the data structure is used in inserting data including content associated with media into a database and wherein the data structure is used in generating content files for use by a media player to display said media with said associated content.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said data is obtained from a provider drop server.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein said control data element includes drop information, provider identification information, version information, and job type information.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said media data element includes media availability dates, the length of Lime to play the media, a media caption, media files information, and topics with which the media is associated.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein said media data element includes media files information including media type information, media download information, media bandwidth information, and media file name information.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said item data element includes an identifier of a property with which said item of content is associated, information about content availability dates, information about content text, information about content links, information about displaying said item of content with the associated media, and information used in searching for said item of content associated with said media.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein said information about displaying the content with the associated media includes pane body information including image background information, a title, a description, information about links, and provider information.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein said search information includes a title, a short description, a collection of keywords associated with said content item, and information about an associated media image.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said data structure is implemented using extensible markup language (XML)

10. A computer-readable medium having a data structure stored thereon for use in associating content with media and integrating the content associated with media into a search database used in searching for content associated with media, the data structure comprising:

a control data element indicative of job control information;

one or more site data elements that are indicative of information about a site for accessing content associated with media provided in the search files;

one or more media elements that are indicative of information about the media and associated content for the site; and

the data structure being used to generate search files from a database storing content associated with media, wherein the search files are based on the data structure and wherein the search files are sent to a search database used in searching for said content associated with media.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein said control data element includes drop information, provider information, version information, and job type information.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein said site data element includes site identification information, dates when site should appear in search results, a site title, a description of the site, a collection of keywords for the site, an address for the site, and site type information.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein said media data element includes a title, a teaser, a description, an address, a media image link information, provider logos information, text links, and action items information about links on said site.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein said data structure is implemented using extensible markup language (XML).