Method and system for automatically generating a personalized sequence of rich media

• US 20060173916A1
• Filed: 12/21/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Rubinoff, Robert, Davis, Anthony Rulz, Verbeck Sibley, Timothy J. R.
• Application Number:
  US11/315,438
• Publication Number:
  US 20060173916A1
• 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 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method of automatically creating a personalized media sequence of rich media from a group of media elements is performed. A media list that describes media elements that are appropriate to the personalized media sequence is received. The media elements described in the media list are combined into a coherent, personalized media sequence of rich media. The result is the creation of a personalized broadcast.

Claims

1. A method of automatically creating a coherent, personalized media sequence of rich media from a group of media elements, the method comprising:

receiving a media list that describes media elements, from the group of media elements, that are appropriate to the personalized media sequence; and

combining the media elements described in the media list into the personalized media sequence, thereby creating a personalized broadcast.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein combining the media elements described in the media list further comprises:

arranging the media elements described in the media list into a media sequence;

detecting gaps in the media sequence; and

repairing the gaps to produce the resulting personalized media sequence of rich media.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein arranging further comprises:

detecting topics of the media elements described in the media list; and

arranging the media elements described in the media list into topically coherent sequences.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

arranging the media elements described in the media list based on additional ordering criteria to order media elements within the topically coherent sequences and to fully order media elements in the personalized sequence of rich media.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein detecting gaps further comprises:

detecting missing contextual/background information within a media element.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein detecting gaps further comprises:

detecting missing bridging information between two adjacent media elements.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein repairing the gaps further comprises:

extending a media element backward in an associated source media file to repair a particular gap.

8. The method of claim 2 wherein repairing the gaps further comprises:

inserting an excerpt at a media element, the excerpt being taken from elsewhere in an associated source media file, to repair a particular gap.

9. The method of claim 2 wherein repairing the gaps further comprises:

inserting generated content at a media element to repair a particular gap.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the generated content is derived from an associated source media file.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the generated content is derived from an external information source.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the generated content is in the form of text.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the generated content is in the form of speech.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein the generated content is in the form of a text overlay.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein combining the media elements described in the media list further comprises:

arranging the media elements described in the media list into a sequence.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein combining the media elements described in the media list further comprises:

detecting gaps in the media sequence.

17. A programmed system for automatically creating a coherent, personalized media sequence of rich media from a group of media elements, the system being programmed to:

receive a media list that describes media elements, from the group of media elements, that are appropriate to the personalized media sequence; and

combine the media elements described in the media list into the personalized media sequence, thereby creating a personalized broadcast.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein combining the media elements described in the media list further comprises:

arranging the media elements described in the media list into a media sequence;

detecting gaps in the media sequence; and

repairing the gaps to produce the resulting personalized media sequence of rich media.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein arranging further comprises:

detecting topics of the media elements described in the media list; and

arranging the media files and segments described in the media list into topically coherent sequences.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the system is further programmed to:

arrange the media elements described in the media list based on additional ordering criteria to order media elements within the topically coherent sequences and to fully order media elements in the personalized sequence of rich media.