CAPTURING BROADCAST SOURCES TO CREATE RECORDINGS AND RICH NAVIGATIONS ON MOBILE MEDIA DEVICES

• US 20070239856A1
• Filed: 03/24/2006
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Essam Abadir
• Original Assignee: Essam Abadir
• Inventors: Abadir, Essam
• Application Number:
  US11/277,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239856A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

The present invention provides a capture system for creating recordings associated with a user, the capture system comprising a capture portal, including a recording broker for creating a schedule for making recordings and a rich navigation broker for deriving rich navigation metadata associated with the recordings. The capture system further provides a capture device, including a communication agent for receiving information—said information including a recording schedule and rich navigation metadata, a broadcast receiver for receiving multimedia, a recording agent for beginning a the recording of a segment of multimedia based on the recording schedule, and a rich navigation agent for associating rich navigation metadata with the recording.

Claims

1. A capture system for creating recordings associated with a user, said capture system comprising:

a capture portal, including;

a recording broker for creating a schedule for making said recordings;

a rich navigation broker, for deriving rich navigation metadata associated with said recordings.

a capture device, including;

a communication agent for receiving information, said information including a recording schedule and rich navigation metadata;

a broadcast receiver for receiving multimedia;

a recording agent for beginning a first recording of a segment of said multimedia based on said recording schedule;

a rich navigation agent for associating rich navigation metadata with said recording.

2. A capture portal for managing recordings associated with a user, said portal comprising:

a recording broker for creating a schedule for making said recordings;

a rich navigation broker, for deriving rich navigation metadata associated with said recordings.

3. The capture portal of claim 2, further comprising;

a communication broker for communicating said schedule and said rich navigation metadata to a capture device for recording said recordings.

4. The capture portal of claim 3, wherein said schedule references

a first recording associated with a first broadcast period;

and

a second recording having a first and a second segment, the first segment associated with a second broadcast period contained within the first broadcast period, and the second segment associated with a third broadcast period outside of the first broadcast period,

said recording broker further comprising a conflict resolver that removes said first segment from said recording schedule.

5. The capture portal of claim 3, wherein said schedule references

a first recording associated with a first broadcast period;

and

a second recording having a first and a second segment, the first segment associated with a second broadcast period contained within the first broadcast period, and the second segment associated with a third broadcast period outside of the first broadcast period,

said recording broker further comprising a conflict resolver that removes said second recording from said recording schedule.

6. The capture portal of claim 5, wherein said second recording includes a first set of information, and said conflict resolver further adds a third recording to said schedule, said third recording including said first set of information.

7. A capture device for multimedia content comprising:

a communication agent for receiving information, said information including a recording schedule and rich navigation metadata;

a broadcast receiver for receiving multimedia;

a recording agent for beginning a first recording of a segment of said multimedia based on said recording schedule;

a rich navigation agent for associating rich navigation metadata with said recording.

8. The capture device of claim 7, wherein:

said recording agent begins a second recording of a second segment of said multimedia based on said recording schedule; and

said rich navigation metadata defines a playing sequence comprising a first position and a second position, said rich navigation agent associating said first position with said first recording and said second position with said second recording.

9. The capture device of claim 8, wherein said rich navigation metadata includes a playlist for defining said playing sequence, said rich navigation agent associating said playlist with said first recording.

10. The capture device of claim 8, wherein said rich navigation agent derives a playlist based on said rich navigation metadata, said playlist defining said playing sequence.

11. The capture device of claim 10, wherein said rich navigation metadata includes a broadcast channel associated with said first recording, said rich navigation agent deriving said playlist based on said broadcast channel.

12. The capture device of claim 7, wherein said rich navigation metadata includes a hierarchy of nodes, said rich navigation agent associating said first recording with a node in said hierarchy.

13. The capture device of claim 9, wherein said rich navigation metadata includes a hierarchy of nodes, said rich navigation agent associating said playlist with one of said nodes.

14. The device of claim 8, wherein said playing sequence defines an order for playing back said recordings.

15. The capture device of claim 8, wherein said second position is adjacent to said first position in said playing sequence;

and said recording agent creates a composite recording by splicing said first recording and said recording.

16. The capture device of claim 7 wherein, the device further comprises:

a transforming agent for creating a first transformation of said first recording based on said rich navigation metadata, said first transformation having a different format from said recording.

17. The capture device of claim 16, wherein said recording agent further records said recording for a recording period specified in said recording schedule, the capture device further comprising:

said transforming agent creating said first transformation during said recording period.

18. The capture device of claim 7, wherein said segment comprises a full program.