Digital media recorder highlight system

• US 20070006255A1
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David C. Cain
• Original Assignee: David C. Cain
• Inventors: Cain, David
• Application Number:
  US11/152,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20070006255A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/36
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A process for displaying a user-selected presentation of video segments from video content may be performed by receiving and recording content and receiving and recording segment data. Selection instructions are received wherein the instructions are associated with segment data. Video segments associated with said selection instructions from said content with said segment data are retrieved and displayed.

Claims

1. A process for displaying a user-selected presentation of video segments from video content comprising the steps of:

receiving content;

recording content;

receiving segment data;

recording segment data;

receiving selection instructions wherein said instructions are associated with segment data;

retrieving video segments associated with said selection instructions from said content with said segment data;

displaying said video segments.