Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for the Creation of Annotations for Media Content to Enable the Selective Management and Playback of Media Content

• US 20090216805A1
• Filed: 02/25/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Narayanaswami, Chandrasekhar, Coffman, Daniel M., Rosu, Marcel C., Leiba, Barry
• Granted Patent: US 7,996,432 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating an annotation for media content, that includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating an annotation for association with the media content subset using the computing system. The method further includes associating the annotation with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content and adding the annotation to at least one annotation repository designed for efficient retrieval of annotation elements.

Claims

1. A method for generating an annotation for media content, the method comprising:

retrieving a media content subset from a media content source;

saving the received media content subset at a computing system;

generating an annotation for association with the media content subset using the computing system;

associating the annotation with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content; and

adding the annotation to at least one annotation repository designed for efficient retrieval of annotation elements.

2. The method in claim 1, wherein the processing of the media content received by the computing system involves at least one remote computing system accessible to the computing system.

3. The method in claim 1, wherein the at least one annotation repository is stored on the computing system.

4. The method in claim 1, wherein the at least one annotation repository is stored on at least one remote computing system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the associating the annotation is with a particular time instance in the media file.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising sharing the annotation with another user.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the content of the annotation contains user-defined information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the content of the annotation contains an index point delimiting the beginning of the region of interest within the media file.

9. A system for generating an annotation for media content, comprising:

a retrieving module that receives a media content subset from a media content source;

a saving module that saves the received media content subset on a computing system;

a generating module that generates an annotation for association with the media content subset using the computing system;

an associating module that associates the generated annotation with the media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content, and

an adding module that adds the annotation to at least one annotation repository designed for efficient retrieval of the annotation elements.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the content of the annotation contains user-defined information.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the associating the annotation is with a particular time instance in the media file.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one annotation repository is stored on at least one remote computing system.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one annotation repository is stored on the computing system.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the content of the annotation contains an index point delimiting the beginning of the region of interest within the media file.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the content of the annotation contains an index point delimiting the ending of the region of interest within the media file.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the annotation is shared with another user.

17. A computer program product for generating an annotation for media content, the computer program product comprising:

a tangible storage medium readable by a computer system and storing instructions or execution by the computer system for performing a method comprising;

retrieving a media content subset from a media content source;

saving the received media content subset at a computing system;

generating an annotation for association with the media content subset using the computing system;

associating the annotation with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content; and

adding the annotation to at least one annotation repository designed for efficient retrieval of annotation elements.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the processing of the media content received by the computing system involves at least one remote computing system accessible to the computing system.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the content of the annotation contains user-defined information.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the content of the annotation contains a first index point delimiting the beginning of the region of interest within the media file, and a second index point delimiting the ending of the region of interest within the media file.