METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INFORMATION SEARCHING ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES BASED ON METADATA INFORMATION

• US 20090055393A1
• Filed: 10/31/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Messer, Alan, Nguyen, Phuong
• Application Number:
  US12/263,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055393A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• 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 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17309 Transmission or handling of upstream communications

Abstract

A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. One implementation involves, on a client side, obtaining metadata for content accessed by a user via the electronic device, displaying terms based on said metadata for user selection, receiving a user selection including receiving selection of one or more of said terms from the user, forming a query based on the user selection to search for related data, and extracting data of interest to the user based on said query.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device, comprising, on a client side:

obtaining metadata for content accessed by a user via the electronic device;

displaying terms based on said metadata for user selection;

receiving a user selection including receiving selection of one or more of said terms from the user;

forming a query based on the user selection to search for related data; and

extracting data of interest to the user based on said query.

2. The method of claim 1 further including displaying said extracted data of interest to the user and receiving query refinement form the user.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein extracting data of interest to the user based on said query further includes causing execution of the query on a server side to search for related information on one or more of:

a client network, a server network and Internet.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising, on the server side executing the query and providing search results based thereon.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying terms based on said metadata for user selection, further includes filtering the metadata by performing one or more of:

dictionary checks to only allow nouns/proper nouns.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein filtering the metadata further includes filtering metadata based on one or more of:

user context and filtering based on device context.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving a user selection further includes receiving additional terms from the user, such that forming a query further includes forming a query based on said selected terms and said additional terms.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a consumer electronics device.

9. A computer program product for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device, comprising a computer usable medium including a computer readable program including instructions, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

obtain metadata for content accessed by a user via the electronic device;

display terms based on said metadata for user selection;

receive a user selection including receiving selection of one or more of said terms from the user;

form a query based on the user selection to search for related data; and

extract data of interest to the user based on said query.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 further including instructions for displaying said extracted data of interest to the user and receiving query refinement form the user.

11. The computer program product of claim 9 further including instructions for causing execution of the query on a server side to search for related information on one or more of:

a server network and Internet.

12. The computer program product of claim 9 further including instructions for filtering the metadata by performing one or more of:

dictionary checks to only allow nouns/proper nouns.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 further including instructions for filtering metadata based on one or more of:

user context and filtering based on device context.

14. The computer program product of claim 9 further including instructions for receiving additional terms from the user and forming a query based on said selected terms and said additional terms.

15. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein the device comprises a consumer electronics device.

16. A system for facilitating information searching for a user, comprising:

an electronic device configured for operating at a client side for access to content; and

a facilitator configured for operating at the client side, the facilitator including;

a search query composer configured for obtaining metadata for content accessed by a user via the electronic device, displaying terms based on said metadata for user selection, receiving a user selection including receiving selection of one or more of said terms from the user, and forming a query based on the user selection to search for related data; and

a search executor configured for extracting data of interest to the user based on said query.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the search executor is further configured for causing execution of the query on a server side to search for related information on one or more of:

a client network, a server network and Internet.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the search query composer is further configured for filtering the metadata by performing one or more of:

dictionary checks to only allow nouns/proper nouns.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the search query composer is further configured for filtering metadata based on one or more of:

user context and filtering based on device context.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the search query composer is further configured for receiving additional terms from the user, and forming a query based on said selected terms and said additional terms.

21. The system of claim 16 wherein the device comprises a consumer electronics device.

22. The system of claim 16 wherein the search executor is further configured for causing execution of the query on a server side to search for related information on one or more of:

a server network and Internet; and

providing search results to the search query composer for presentation to the user.

23. The system of claim 16 wherein the facilitator is a component of the electronic device.