SYSTEM FOR CREATING ANCHORS FOR MEDIA CONTENT
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1. A method, comprising:
- collecting, via a computing device, data representing user activity related to a media item;
calculating, via the computing device, quantitative measurements for the media item based upon the user activity;
identifying, via the computing device, a location within the media item that is a high user interest point based on the quantitative measurements, said high user interest point corresponding to a segment of the media item having the highest popularity;
annotating, via the computing device, the media item with an anchor at said location that provides an indication that the identified location corresponds to said high user interest point within the media item and that enables the user to begin rendering the media item from the anchor; and
communicating, via a computing device, said annotated media item to a user for rendering.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system for providing intuitive and efficient representations of positions of interest to a user within encoded media. Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a heatmap representation that indicates the interestingness of content at different locations within the media. These locations of interest are presented to a user to allow quick jumps to the interesting parts of the content.
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1. A method, comprising:
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collecting, via a computing device, data representing user activity related to a media item; calculating, via the computing device, quantitative measurements for the media item based upon the user activity; identifying, via the computing device, a location within the media item that is a high user interest point based on the quantitative measurements, said high user interest point corresponding to a segment of the media item having the highest popularity; annotating, via the computing device, the media item with an anchor at said location that provides an indication that the identified location corresponds to said high user interest point within the media item and that enables the user to begin rendering the media item from the anchor; and communicating, via a computing device, said annotated media item to a user for rendering. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer executable instructions, that when executed by a computing device, perform a method comprising:
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collecting data representing user activity related to a media item; calculating quantitative measurements for the media item based upon the user activity; identifying a location within the media item that is a high user interest point based on the quantitative measurements, said high user interest point corresponding to a segment of the media item having the highest popularity; annotating the media item with an anchor at said location that provides an indication that the identified location corresponds to said high user interest point within the media item and that enables the user to begin rendering the media item from the anchor; and communicating said annotated media item to a user for rendering. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system of an anchor module, comprising:
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a plurality of processors; a media module, implemented by at least one of the plurality of processors, configured to retrieve and render a media item; a user behavior analyzer, implemented by at least one of the plurality of processors, configured to collect user activity related a media item being rendered, wherein the user behavior analyzer computes quantitative measurements for each segment of the media item, said measurements are based upon the user activity related to the rendered media item; the user behavior analyzer further configured to analyze the quantitative measurements to determine a location within the media item, said location being a high interest point of the media item; an anchor generator, implemented by at least one of the plurality of processors, configured to generate an anchor based upon said location that provides an indication that the location corresponds to the highest popularity segment within the media item; and the anchor generator further configured to annotate the media item with the anchor at said location, said anchor enables a user to begin rendering the media item from the anchor. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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