MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIMELINE BROWSERS FOR BROADCAST MEDIA

• US 20080313127A1
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Pritchett, Thaddeus C., Wong, Curtis G., Horvitz, Eric J., Sather, Dale A., Reneris, Kenneth, Batrouny, Talal Ali
• Granted Patent: US 7,539,659 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/61
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/466 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies services using the results of monitoring in broadcast systems H04H60/61
• 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 21/8405 represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that effectuates selective viewing of multimedia audio and/or visual content. The disclosed system can include a component that obtains multimedia audio or visual content from a broadcast server, categorizes the multimedia audio or visual content, and associates index tags to categorized multimedia audio or visual content. The index tags are utilized to provide a facility to search or summarize the categorized multimedia audio or visual content, wherein the resultant searches and summarizations can be displayed on a display associated with the component.

Claims

1. A system implemented on a machine that effectuates selective viewing of multimedia audio or visual content, comprising:

a component that obtains from an interface multimedia audio or visual content, the component categorizes the multimedia audio or visual content and associates index tags to categorized multimedia audio or visual content, the index tags employed by the component to provide summarization of the categorized multimedia audio or visual content, the summarization displayed on a visual display associated with the component.

2. The system of claim 1, the component elicits responses from a user regarding the user'"'"'s likes or dislikes associated with the multimedia audio or visual content.

3. The system of claim 2, the elicited responses employed to construct or update an evolving memorability model associated with the user.

4. The system of claim 1, the component searches storage media associated with the component for digital files associated with landmark events pertinent to a user.

5. The system of claim 4, the landmark events relate to situations that have taken place during presentation of prior multimedia audio or visual content.

6. The system of claim 4, the landmark events relate to situations that take place during presentation of the multimedia audio or visual content.

7. The system of claim 4, the landmark events relate to situations that occur external from the multimedia audio or visual content and selectively unique to a user.

8. The system of claim 1, the index tags includes metadata that imposes a hierarchical structure.

9. The system of claim 8, the metadata includes information solicited from users, data deduced through utilization of artificial intelligence, or information retrieved from one or more databases.

10. The system of claim 8, the index tags employed to search previously persisted multimedia audio or visual content to locate multimedia audio or visual fragments relative to a user'"'"'s established memorability model, the multimedia audio or visual fragments utilized to stimulate the user'"'"'s recollection of a missed audio or visual segment.

11. The system of claim 1, the categorized multimedia audio or visual content persisted to associated storage media.

12. The system of claim 1, based at least in part on metadata included with the index tags and associated with fragments of the multimedia audio or visual content, the summarization of the multimedia audio or visual content specifically adapted to a user.

13. A method implemented on a machine that effectuates viewing of multimedia content, comprising:

receiving multimedia content from a broadcast service;

analyzing the multimedia content based on a memorability model specific to a user;

associating index data with the multimedia content based on the memorability model; and

utilizing the index data to concurrently playback the multimedia content and generate and display synopsis information related to the multimedia content, the synopsis information based at least in part on the memorability model.

14. The method of claim 13, further includes obtaining input from a user regarding the multimedia content.

15. The method of claim 13, further includes searching affiliated storage to identify digital files associated with landmark events unique to a user.

16. The method of claim 15, the landmark events pertain to situations that occur during playback of the media content.

17. The method of claim 15, the landmark events relate to events specific to a user.

18. The method of claim 17, the events specific to the user include proximity to other another user during playback of the media content.

19. The method of claim 13, the index data includes a schema that includes information received from users, inferred by artificial intelligence techniques, or obtained from databases.

20. A system that effectuates selective viewing of audio/visual content, comprising:

means for retrieving audio/visual content;

means for constructing and utilizing a memorability model to analyze the audio/visual content; and

means for selectively playing fragments of the audio/visual content based on the memorability model.