Review of signature based content

• US 20070136656A1
• Filed: 08/07/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Pankaj, Grant, Scott, Gupta, Amit, Nydam, Ronald
• Granted Patent: US 9,384,178 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

Briefly, in accordance with at least one embodiment, a content creator/editor may have content reviewed by one or more reviewers. The content may include one or more signatures or characteristic values to correlate an annotation of the content made by one of the reviewers with respect to a flow of time of the content. The content creator/editor may generate a review file for the content and send the review file to the reviewers. The reviewers may provide annotations to the content with respect to the flow of time of the content, where the annotations may be correlated to the content via the signature or characteristic values of the content, and the reviewers may store the annotations independent of the content. The review process may be managed independent of a managing server where the content creator/editor may generate a review file and send the review file to the reviewers using a client content creation and editing software program on local machine of the content creator/editor. The reviewers may receive the review file, which may include content or the content may be streamed to a local machine of the reviewers using a client review program to manage the obtaining and reviewing of the content. The reviewers may generate annotations of the content independent of content and save them in a file that is sent back to the content creator/editor for aggregation of the annotations and selective viewing of the annotations of the content.

Claims

1. A method for reviewing content, comprising:

annotating signature based content with one or more annotations at a corresponding signature of the content with respect to a time based flow of the content; and

storing the annotations of the signature based content independent of the signature based content.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising transmitting the annotations to a receiving end wherein the annotations may be aggregated at the receiving end.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, prior to said annotating, receiving the signature based content from a transmitting end.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signature includes least one of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the signature correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signature includes at least a pair of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the pair correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

6. A method for reviewing content, comprising:

receiving a review file for content to be reviewed;

playing the content to be reviewed;

annotating the content with at least one annotation;

associating the annotation with respect to characteristic values of the content that correspond to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to a time based flow of the content;

storing the annotations in an annotation file along with the characteristic values associated with the annotations; and

sending the annotation file to a user, wherein the user may observe the annotations if the characteristic values of the content occur during playback of the content.

7. A method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the characteristic values include at least one or more of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the characteristic values correlate an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

8. A method as claimed in claim 6, wherein said storing includes storing the annotations independent of the content.

9. A method for having content reviewed, comprising:

generating a timeline associated with content to be reviewed;

exporting the timeline to a review file;

sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content;

receiving an annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content with respect to the timeline; and

integrating the annotation file with the timeline, wherein annotations of the content from the annotation file occur at time locations in the timeline.

10. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline from the review file.

11. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

12. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at time locations of the timeline with respect to the content.

13. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

14. A method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers if playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

15. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.

16. A method for reviewing content, comprising:

receiving a review file for content to be reviewed;

playing the content with respect to a timeline provided in the review file;

annotating the content with annotations with respect to the timeline;

storing the annotations in an annotation file; and

sending the annotation file to a user without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content, wherein the user may integrate the annotations of the annotation file with the timeline.

17. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the annotations are stored as metadata tags at time locations in the timeline that correspond to the time of the annotations with respect to the content.

18. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said playing includes playing the content stored in the review file.

19. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said playing includes streaming the content from a location where the content is stored from a link to the content in the review file, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program on a local machine of a reviewer of the content.

20. A method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising compressing the annotation file prior to said sending.

21. A method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising encrypting the annotation file prior to said sending.

22. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result in the reviewing of content by:

annotating signature based content with one or more annotations at a corresponding signature of the content with respect to a time based flow of the content; and

storing the annotations of the signature based content independent of the signature based content.

23. An article as claimed in claim 22, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in the reviewing of content by transmitting the annotations to a receiving end wherein the annotations may be aggregated at the receiving end.

24. An article as claimed in claim 22, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in the reviewing of content by, prior to said annotating, receiving the signature based content from a transmitting end.

25. An article as claimed in claim 22, wherein the signature includes least one of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the signature correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

26. An article as claimed in claim 22, wherein the signature includes at least a pair of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the pair correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

27. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result in the reviewing of content by:

receiving a review file for content to be reviewed;

playing the content to be reviewed;

annotating the content with at least one annotation;

associating the annotation with respect to characteristic values of the content that correspond to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to a time based flow of the content;

storing the annotations in an annotation file along with the characteristic values associated with the annotations; and

sending the annotation file to a user, wherein the user may observe the annotations when the characteristic values of the content occur during playback of the content.

28. An article as claimed in claim 27, wherein the characteristic values include at least one or more of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the characteristic values correlate an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

29. An article as claimed in claim 27, wherein said storing includes storing the annotations independent of the content.

30. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result in having content reviewed by:

generating a timeline associated with content to be reviewed;

exporting the timeline to a review file;

sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content;

receiving an annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content with respect to the timeline; and

integrating the annotation file with the timeline, wherein annotations of the content from the annotation file occur at time locations in the timeline.

31. An article as claimed in claim 30, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline from the review file.

32. An article as claimed in claim 30, wherein said exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

33. An article as claimed in claim 30, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at time locations of the timeline with respect to the content.

34. An article as claimed in claim 30, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

35. An article as claimed in claim 30, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in having content reviewed by selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers if playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

36. An article as claimed in claim 30, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.

37. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result the reviewing of content by:

receiving a review file for content to be reviewed;

playing the content with respect to a timeline provided in the review file;

annotating the content with annotations with respect to the timeline;

storing the annotations in an annotation file; and

sending the annotation file to a user without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content, wherein the user may integrate the annotations of the annotation file with the timeline.

38. An article as claimed in claim 37, wherein the annotations are stored as metadata tags at time locations in the timeline that correspond to the time of the annotations with respect to the content.

39. An article as claimed in claim 37, wherein said playing includes playing the content stored in the review file.

40. An article as claimed in claim 37, wherein said playing includes streaming the content from a location where the content is stored from a link to the content in the review file, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program on a local machine of a reviewer of the content.

41. An article as claimed in claim 37, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in the reviewing of content by compressing the annotation file prior to said sending.

42. An article as claimed in claim 37, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in the reviewing of content by encrypting the annotation file prior to said sending.

43. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor, and

a memory to couple to said processor, said processor to execute a program stored in said memory to result in the reviewing content by;

annotating signature based content with one or more annotations at a corresponding signature of the content with respect to a time based flow of the content; and

storing the annotations of the signature based content independent of the signature based content.

44. An apparatus as claimed in claim 43, the program executed by the processor to further result in the reviewing of content by transmitting the annotations to a receiving end wherein the annotations may be aggregated at the receiving end.

45. An apparatus as claimed in claim 43, the program executed by the processor to further result in the reviewing of content by, prior to said annotating, receiving the signature based content from a transmitting end.

46. An apparatus as claimed in claim 43, wherein the signature includes at least one of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the signature correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

47. An apparatus as claimed in claim 43, wherein the signature includes at least a pair of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the pair correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

48. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory to couple to said processor, said processor to execute a program stored in said memory to result in having content reviewed by;

generating a timeline associated with content to be reviewed;

exporting the timeline to a review file;

sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content;

receiving an annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content with respect to the timeline; and

integrating the annotation file with the timeline, wherein annotations of the content from the annotation file occur at time locations in the timeline.

49. An apparatus as claimed in claim 48, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline from the review file.

50. An apparatus as claimed in claim 48, wherein said exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

51. An apparatus as claimed in claim 48, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at predetermined time location of the timeline with respect to the content.

52. An apparatus as claimed in claim 48, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

53. An apparatus as claimed in claim 48, the program executed by the processor to further result in having content reviewed by selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers when playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

54. An apparatus as claimed in claim 48, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.

55. An apparatus for having content reviewed, comprising:

means for generating a timeline associated with content to be reviewed;

means for exporting the timeline to a review file;

means for sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content;

means for receiving an annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content with respect to the timeline; and

means for integrating the annotation file with the timeline, wherein annotations of the content from the annotation file occur at time locations in the timeline.

56. An apparatus as claimed in claim 55, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline from the review file.

57. An apparatus as claimed in claim 55, wherein said means for exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

58. An apparatus as claimed in claim 55, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at time locations of the timeline with respect to the content.

59. An apparatus as claimed in claim 55, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

60. An apparatus as claimed in claim 55, further comprising means for selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers if playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

61. An apparatus as claimed in claim 55, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.