Hosted video discovery and publishing platform

• US 20080052630A1
• Filed: 07/05/2007
• Published: 02/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Revenue Digital Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Magnify Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Cavalletto, Matthew Simon, Rosenbaum, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,117,545 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• 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 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A hosted system provides any Internet user with the ability to quickly set up and customize a video channel, preferably as a web page or site that can be reached from any Internet-accessible device having a web browser. The solution includes tools for use by channel site creators to customize the look, feel, and page design. A particular web page or site may be associated with a given subject. As used herein, a page or site that has such an association is sometimes referred to as “subject-specific.” Once a subject-specific channel is created, a site administrator or individual visitors can search across the web and choose to bring those search results into the channel architecture. The system also enables a multiplatform search as an integrated part of a library build; if desired, search results are automatically populated into the channel content. The system also enables the characterization of the material returned, preferably according to a user-generated taxonomy.

Claims

1. A method, operating in a computer network, comprising:

displaying a set of one or more pages from which a user defines and manages a video channel;

responsive to a request, performing a search of one or more third party search engines to locate video content for the video channel;

associating at least some of the video content located by the search with the video channel; and

displaying the video channel as a web page.

2. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the video channel is associated with a user-selected subject.

3. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the web page is displayed in association with one or more other web pages corresponding to other video channels.

4. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the search is a meta-search.

5. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the video content located by the search is associated with the video channel automatically upon discovery of the video content.

6. The method as described in claim 1 further including repeating the performing and associating steps periodically to identify new content for the video channel.

7. The method as described in claim 1 wherein a configurable number of video clips located by the search are associated with the video channel automatically upon discovery of the video clips.

8. The method as described in claim 1 further including initiating a rendering of a video clip within the web page in response to a given user-initiated action.

9. The method as described in claim 8 further including receiving rating information associated with the rendering of the video clip.

10. The method as described in claim 8 further including receiving a comment associated with the rendering of the video clip.

11. The method as described in claim 8 further including initiating a sharing operation in response to the rendering of the video clip.

12. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the request is associated with a set of one or more user- or system-defined tags.

13. The method as described in claim 12 wherein the system-defined tags are defined by a taxonomy.

14. The method as described in claim 13 further including renaming a system-defined tag.

15. The method as described in claim 1 wherein a video clip on the video channel is associated with a set of one or more user- or system-defined tags.

16. A server comprising a processor, and a computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium having processor-executable instructions for performing the method steps of claim 1.

17. An Internet-accessible system comprising one or more servers for performing the method steps of claim 1.