User Interface for Viewing Targeted Segments of Multimedia Content Based on Time-Based Metadata Search Criteria

• US 20130166587A1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TiVo Solutions Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TiVo Solutions Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Berry, Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 10,372,758 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for navigating digital media assets including a navigation system configured to receive a search query in response to a user input and process the search query by applying the search query to a search index of digital media asset conventional and time-based metadata and determining search results of titles of and start points in time within digital media assets that satisfy the search query. The navigation system may then display the search results to the user through the user interface. The search results may be displayed in a hierarchical format, wherein the title of the digital media asset is displayed and upon selecting the title of the digital media asset, the start points in time within that digital media asset are displayed or played as a video to the user through the user interface.

Claims

1. A method for navigating digital media comprising:

receiving, by a computer server, a search query in response to a user inputting said search query into a user interface;

displaying, by said computer server, at least one title of at least one digital media asset satisfying the search query to the user through said user interface in response to receiving the search query;

displaying, by said computer server, thumbnail screen shots associated with all start time points that are representative of one or more segments that fall between the start and stop time points of the digital media asset that satisfies the search query the user through said user interface in response to the user selecting the title of the at least one digital media asset; and

navigating segments by selecting, cycling through, and/or jumping back and forth through the thumbnail screen shots representative of each segment.

2. The method of claim 1, where the search query input by the user comprises the title, the start time, or the end time of the digital media asset that satisfies the user query.

3. The method of claim 1, where the display by the computer server may comprise a plurality of digital media asset segments for each digital media asset that satisfies the user query.

4. The method of claim 3, where the search query input by the user further comprises an indication of the title, the start times, and/or the end times for each of the plurality of digital media asset segments that satisfy the user query.

5. The method of claim 1, where the display of the digital media asset is in the form of a thumbnail screen shot representative of an identified digital media asset.

7. The method of claim 1, where the user may select one or more than one thumbnail icons representative of associated digital media asset segments and combine the selected digital media asset segments into a scene comprising all selected digital media asset segments to be displayed to the user as a created digital media asset.

6. (canceled)

8. A system for navigating digital media comprising:

a computer server comprising one or more computer processors;

the computer server receiving a search query in response to a user inputting a search query into a user interface;

the computer server displaying at least one title of at least one digital media asset satisfying the search query to the user through said user interface in response to receiving the search query;

the computer server displaying thumbnail screen shots associated with all start time points that are representative of one or more segments that fall between the start and stop time points of the digital media asset that satisfies the search query to the user through said user interface in response to the user selecting the title of the at least one digital media asset; and

navigating segments by selecting, cycling through, and/or jumping back and forth through the thumbnail screen shots representative of each segment.

9. The system of claim 8, where the search query input by the user comprises the title, the start time, or the end time of the digital media asset that satisfies the user query.

10. The system of claim 8, where the display of the digital media asset is in the form of a thumbnail screen shot representative of an identified digital media asset.

11. The method of claim 10, where the search query input by the user further comprises an indication of a segmentation of the digital media asset, where each segment comprises a title, a start time, and/or an end time for each of the segments of the digital media asset that satisfy the user query.

12. The system of claim 10, where the display of a thumbnail screen shot is presented to the user for titles, segments within, or points in time within the identified digital media asset that are each representative of titles, segments within, or points in time within the identified digital media asset that satisfy the user query.

13. The system of claim 12, where the user may select one or more than one thumbnail icons representative of associated digital media asset segments and combine the selected digital media asset segments into a scene comprising all selected digital media asset segments to be displayed to the user as a created digital media asset.

14. A computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device for navigating digital media comprising:

receiving, by a computer server, a search query in response to a user inputting a search query into a user interface;

displaying, by said computer server, at least one title of at least one digital media asset satisfying the search query to the user through said user interface in response to receiving the search query;

displaying, by said computer server, thumbnail screen shots associated with all start time points that are representative of one or more segments that fall between the start and stop time points of the digital media asset that satisfies the search query to the user through said user interface in response to the user selecting the title of the at least one digital media asset; and

navigating segments by selecting, cycling through, and/or jumping back and forth through the thumbnail screen shots representative of each segment.

15. The computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device of claim 14, where the search query input by the user comprises the title, the start time, or the end time of the digital media asset that satisfies the user query.

16. The computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device of claim 14, where the display by the computer server may comprise a plurality of digital media asset segments for each digital media asset that satisfies the user query.

17. The computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device of claim 16, where the search query input by the user further comprises an indication of the title, the start times, and/or the end times for each of the plurality of digital media asset segments that satisfy the user query.

18. The computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device of claim 17, where the display of the digital media asset is in the form of a thumbnail screen shot representative of an identified digital media asset.

19. The computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device of claim 18, where the display of a thumbnail screen shot is presented to the user for titles, segments within, or points in time within the identified digital media asset that are each representative of titles, segments within, or points in time within the identified digital media asset that satisfy the user query.

20. The computer program product embodied in an electronic computer storage device of claim 19, where the user may select one or more than one thumbnail icons representative of associated digital media asset segments and combine the selected digital media asset segments into a scene comprising all selected digital media asset segments to be displayed to the user as a created digital media asset.