NETWORK VIDEO GUIDE AND SPIDERING

• US 20070282819A1
• 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 8,548,978 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 method of video spidering, comprising:

dynamically identifying a script associated with at least one video on a packet switched network, wherein the script comprises a software program;

parsing the identified script associated with the video;

executing the parsed script to identify video content;

evaluating the executed script to generate a location identifier of the video content; and

storing the location identifier associated with the identified video content.

2. The method defined in claim 1, wherein the location identifier is a video uniform resource locator (URL).

3. The method defined in claim 1, additionally comprising launching the identified video content for playback on a visual display according to the location identifier.

4. The method defined in claim 3, wherein launching the identified content comprises invoking a specific coded video player of a site containing the identified video based on the location identifier.

5. A method of video spidering, comprising:

dynamically identifying a script associated with at least one video on a network,

parsing the identified script associated with the video;

executing the parsed script to identify a container file;

parsing the identified container file;

evaluating the parsed container file to identify a location identifier of video content; and

storing the location identifier associated with the video content.

6. The method defined in claim 5, wherein evaluating the parsed container file comprises excluding advertising content.

7. The method defined in claim 5, additionally comprising launching the identified video content for playback on a visual display according to the location identifier.

8. The method defined in claim 7, wherein launching the content comprises invoking a specific coded video player of a site containing the identified video based on the location identifier.

9. The method defined in claim 5, wherein the script is programmed in Java script or Visual Basic script.

10. The method defined in claim 5, wherein the location identifier is a video uniform resource locator (URL).