SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING A CONTENT SUMMARY OF A MEDIA ITEM TO A USER BASED ON A POSITION WITHIN THE MEDIA ITEM

• US 20120210203A1
• Filed: 05/11/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Rhonda Enterprises, LLC (Concert Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Kandekar, Kunal, Curtis, Scott, Katpelly, Ravi Reddy
• Granted Patent: US 8,434,001 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Systems and methods for presenting a content summary of a media item to a user based on a position within the media item are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include receiving identification of a position within a media item residing on an electronic device. For example, the identified position may be a bookmarked position within an e-book residing on an e-book reader. The method may also include generating a content summary for a portion of the media item based on the identified position. For example, an electronic device may dynamically generate a content summary based on content of the e-book that precedes a bookmarked position. The method may also include presenting the content summary to a user of the electronic device. For example, a display of an electronic device may be controlled to present a content summary to a reader of an e-book.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving identification of a position within a media item residing on an electronic device;

generating a content summary for a portion of the media item based on the identified position; and

presenting the content summary to a user of the electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving identification of the position comprises receiving user input that controls an application to bookmark the position within the media item.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user input that controls an application to close the media item while the application is presenting the media item to the user at or near the position within the media item,

wherein receiving identification of the position comprises receiving identification of the position of the media item that is being presented to the user when the media item closes.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving identification of the position comprises receiving identification of a position within text of the media item.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an indication of a time elapsed since the user last accessed the media item, and

wherein generating the content summary comprises generating the content summary based on the elapsed time.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein generating the content summary comprises:

determining a portion of the media item residing between a beginning of the media item and the identified position; and

using the determined portion to generate the content summary.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein determining the portion of the media item comprises determining a size of the portion of the media item based on the elapsed time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the media item contains a portion of the media item residing between a beginning of the media item and the identified position.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the content summary comprises using at least one of semantic analysis and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to summarize the portion of the media item.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving user input that controls an application to open the media item at the position,

wherein generating the content summary comprises dynamically generating the content summary for the portion of the media item in response to receiving user input to control the opening of the media item at the position.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the content summary comprises:

retrieving a pre-generated summarization of the media item; and

truncating the pre-generated summarization based on the position within the media item,

wherein presenting the content summary comprises presenting the truncated pre-generated summarization to the user of the electronic device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein truncating the pre-generated summarization comprises identifying a portion of the pre-generated summarization that corresponds to the identified position,

wherein presenting the truncated pre-generated summarization comprises presenting the identified portion of the pre-generated summarization to the user of the electronic device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein identifying the portion of the pre-generated summarization comprises:

retrieving a mapping that maps at least one portion of the pre-generated content summary to at least one portion of the media item that is relevant to the content summary; and

using the mapping to identify the portion of the pre-generated summarization.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the mapping includes a summary hierarchy having varying levels of summary detail.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user input that controls an application to open the media item,

wherein presenting the content summary to the user comprises presenting the content summary to the user in response to receiving user input to control the opening of the media item.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the content summary to the user comprises using a display of the electronic device to display the content summary to the user.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising using the display of the electronic device to display content of the media item at or near the position when displaying the content summary to the user.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user-specific information,

wherein generating a content summary comprises generating the content summary based on the user-specific information.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein receiving user-specific information comprises receiving at least one of a profile of the user, gaze-tracking information for the user, annotations of the user, and social network information of the user.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising assigning a relevancy level to portions of the media item, and

wherein generating the content summary comprises generating the content summary based on the relevancy level of portions of the media item.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein generating the content summary based on the relevancy level comprises including a portion of the media item in the content summary based on the relevancy level of the portion.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the content summary comprises generating at least one mapping that maps the content summary to at least one portion of the media item that is relevant to the content summary.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the content summary comprises generating first and second content summaries for the identified position within the media item, wherein the first content summary includes a greater amount of description than the second content summary,

wherein the method further comprises receiving input for selecting the first content summary or the second content summary for presentation, and

wherein presenting the content summary comprises presenting to the user the selected first or second content summary.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein receiving input comprises receiving one of user input and elapsed time since the user last accessed the media item.

25. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a navigation link between at least a portion of the content summary and a corresponding portion of the media item; and

presenting the navigation link to the user.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

receiving user input for selecting the navigation link; and

in response to receiving the user input, presenting to the user the corresponding portion of the media item.

27. A system comprising:

a media summary generator configured to;

receive identification of a position within a media item residing in memory; and

generate a content summary for a portion of the media item based on the identified position; and

a user interface configured to present the content summary to a user.

28. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the following steps:

receiving identification of a position within a media item residing on an electronic device;

generating a content summary for a portion of the media item based on the identified position; and

presenting the content summary to a user of the electronic device.