Audio and video program recording, editing and playback systems using metadata
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Abstract
A system for utilizing metadata created either at a central location for shared use by connected users, or at each individual user'"'"'s location, to enhance user'"'"'s enjoyment of available broadcast programming content. A variety of mechanisms are employed for automatically and manually identifying and designating programming segments, associating descriptive metadata which the identified segments, distributing the metadata for use at client locations, and using the supplied metadata to selectively record and playback desired programming.
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2 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method for selectively displaying video programming, comprising the steps of:
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generating metadata that delimits a set of video program segments within at least one video programming sequence, reproducing the set of segments on a display device in an ordered sequence specified by a playlist, in the absence of an intervening control command from a viewer, displaying a segment guide listing on the display device, the segment guide listing containing, for each segment of the set, a text description corresponding to the respective segment, with the text description corresponding to the segment currently being reproduced being visually identified on said guide listing, receiving an indication that the viewer has selected a text description of the segment guide listing, the selected text description describing a desired segment of the set of segments, and retrieving the desired segment using segment identification information corresponding to the desired segment for reproducing on the display device the desired segment.
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