BOOKMARKING SEGMENTS OF CONTENT

• US 20120209841A1
• Filed: 02/10/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Saretto, Cesare J., Mulcahy, Kathleen P., Pope, Matthew J., Long, Geoffrey A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,799,300 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/784 the detected or recognised objects being people
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A request from a user to bookmark a segment of content is received at a computing device. The segment of content is identified automatically and/or manually by the user. An expression of the user regarding a particular attribute of the segment of content is obtained, and a bookmark is generated. The bookmark includes both an identification of the segment of content and metadata that includes the expression of the user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user to bookmark a segment of content;

identifying the segment of content;

obtaining an expression of the user regarding a particular attribute of the segment of content; and

generating a bookmark that includes both an identification of the segment of content and one or more tags that include the expression of the user.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the content comprises audio and video content.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the content comprises audio and/or video playback of a video game.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining characteristics of the segment of content; and

including, in the bookmark, the characteristics of the segment of content.

5. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein the characteristics of the segment of content include tags added by other users of other computing devices when creating other bookmarks associated with portions of the content that are included in the segment of content.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein identifying the segment of content comprises automatically determining the segment of content based at least in part on a particular part of the content being played back at a time that the request from the user is received.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the expression of the user comprises an expression explicitly input by the user.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the expression of the user comprises an automatically sensed emotional response of the user.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a recommendation service, a recommendation of additional content for the user, the additional content being identified based at least in part on bookmarks that have been created in response to requests from the user; and

displaying an indication of the additional content.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user request to search through previously created bookmarks for a search term;

identifying one or more segments of content each having an associated bookmark that includes the search term; and

presenting the one or more segments of content having an associated bookmark that includes the search term.

11. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a splicing service, a collection of multiple segments of content each having an associated bookmark that includes a particular tag; and

displaying the multiple segments of content in the collection.

12. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising sharing the bookmark with one or more other users.

13. One or more computer storage media having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the one or more processors to:

receive a user request to bookmark content;

identify a segment of the content associated with the bookmark, the segment of content having both a beginning location in the content and an ending location in the content;

obtain an expression of the user regarding an attribute of the segment of content; and

generate a bookmark that includes both an identification of the segment of content and the expression of the user.

14. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, wherein the content comprises audio and/or video playback of a video game.

15. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, wherein the multiple instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

obtain characteristics of the segment of content; and

include, in the bookmark, the characteristics of the segment of content.

16. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 15, wherein the characteristics of the segment of content include tags added by other users of other computing devices when creating other bookmarks associated with portions of the content that are included in the segment of content.

17. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, wherein the multiple instructions further cause the one or more processors to share the bookmark with one or more other users.

18. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, wherein the expression of the user comprises an expression explicitly input by the user.

19. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, wherein the expression of the user comprises an automatically sensed emotional response of the user.

20. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user to bookmark a segment of audio and video content;

identifying the segment of the audio and video content, the segment of the audio and video content being less than the entire audio and video content;

obtaining an expression of the user regarding a particular attribute of the segment; and

generating a bookmark that includes an identification of the segment, one or more tags that include the expression of the user, and one or more tags that include characteristics of the segment, the characteristics of the segment including tags added by multiple additional users of other computing devices when creating other bookmarks associated with portions of the audio and video content that are included in the segment.