EMBEDDED METADATA IN A MEDIA PRESENTATION

• US 20070245243A1
• Filed: 03/27/2007
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Media Solutions, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Rutchik, Michael, Octavian, Naicu, Lanza, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,735,101 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method and system for linking a web page to a portion of a video is provided. Users can enter comments into a video that include a start and end time index for identifying a portion of a video. Comments are indexed to the media presentations such that they may be searched and located, thus media playback can be executed from any comment. The system allocates a unique comment track to each user that can be turned on and off at will by users during playback.

Claims

21. A system comprising:

a server in communication with a user;

a video server serving a media presentation in communication with a user; and

a user interface configured to allow the user to insert comments at specific points in time into the media presentation and search for portions of the media presentation indicated by comments.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the user interface is further configured to allow the user to view the media presentation at a desired place in the media presentation based on a result of the search.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the user interface comprises a video panel and a scrolling comment panel.

24-1. The system of claim 24, wherein the editing/management control panel comprises a search window.

26. A method comprising:

delivering a media presentation from the Internet based on a first parameter of a code on a web page, wherein a portion of the code is associated with a media application;

delivering comments associated with specific start or end times of the media presentation based on a second parameter of the code; and

updating the media presentation with new comments.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the comments are associated with specific start and end times of the media presentation.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising presenting at least a portion of the media presentation associated with a specific start time to a user.

29. A method comprising:

identifying a media presentation from the Internet;

linking information to any portion of the media presentation; and

presenting initially the specific portion of the media presentation in association with the information to a user.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the specific portion is from a search, from a specific user, or based on a theme.

31. The method of claim 29, further comprising:

presenting an identifier associated with at least one portion of the media presentation having information linked thereto; and

responding to a selection of the identifier by starting presentation of the media presentation at a beginning of the portion thereof, and substantially concurrently presenting the information linked thereto.

32. The method of claim 29, wherein the link information comprises comments.

33. The method of claim 29, further comprising identifying a user associated with the information linked to the portion of the media presentation.

34. The method of claim 29, further comprising responding to requests for dynamically adding additional information to the linked information.

35. The method of claim 29, further comprising:

presenting the information in a format that includes identifiers for links to particular portions of the media presentation; and

presenting the particular portions of the media presentation substantially concurrently when the identifiers for those links come into view.