NETWORK VIDEO GUIDE AND SPIDERING

• US 20070282818A1
• Filed: 08/21/2007
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Virage, Inc. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Humphrey, Richard, Thoms, Dale, Lynn, Owen
• Granted Patent: US 9,684,728 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64784 Data processing by the network data processing in packet switching systems H04L12/56; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; intermediate storage or scheduling H04L49/90; provisioning of proxy services in data packet switching networks H04L67/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.

Claims

1. A system of indexing and searching video, comprising:

a video index generated through a logging mechanism that associates the video index with a location identifier of the video;

a search engine operating on the index;

a web server and application logic to perform searches against the index and deliver search results to browsers; and

a template mechanism configured to inject the video into templates at a search site.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a spidering module configured to automatically locate and index video content on a network.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the video index is additionally generated by human annotation.

4. A method of video directory formation, comprising:

capturing an aggregation of index data from existing sources having previously indexed videos; and

capturing and indexing videos transmitted using a video distribution mechanism.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the video distribution mechanism includes satellite, cable, and airwaves.

6. A method of video directory formation, comprising:

using a spidering process to gather and maintain video content located on a network; and

capturing and indexing videos transmitted using a video distribution mechanism.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the video distribution mechanism includes satellite, cable, and airwaves.

8. A method of video directory formation, comprising:

using a spidering process to gather and maintain video content located on a network; and

capturing an aggregation of index data from existing sources having previously indexed videos.

9. A system for sharing indexed video, comprising:

a spider module configured to gather video content from a network; and

a hosting service in data communication with the spider module, wherein the hosting service is configured to share searchable video for customized viewing at customer sites.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising at least one website configured to integrate the video shared by the hosting service into the website using at least one search and retrieval metaphor.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the website comprises a web portal.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising a search web page having a search form that includes one or more fields used to express a query.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the hosting service includes a logging facility configured to generate an index of the gathered video content.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising a browse web page having category links arranged in a subject hierarchy, with leaf nodes of the hierarchy performing pre-defined searches against the index.