EVENT-RELATED MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20140337346A1
• Filed: 05/09/2014
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UberFan, LLC
• Original Assignee: UberFan, LLC
• Inventors: Barthel, Terrence J., Ess, Jeffery P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,817,883 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/172 Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/432 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/45 Clustering; Classification
• 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 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

An event-related media management system contextualizes media content. The event-related media management system associates media content with contextual event-related data to associate the media content with the events and information about the events. The contextual event-related data can then be used to provide access to the media content, such as through relevant search results or by presenting the media content in organized displays for contextual browsing and navigation. In some embodiments the event-related media management system generates contextualized media content for contextual search, discovery, and advertising.

Claims

1. A method of generating intelligent media content for contextual search, discovery, and advertising, the method comprising:

storing event-related data associated with a plurality of events including a first event;

receiving media content items, the media content items including a first media content item;

identifying contextual information associated with the first media content item using a computing device;

identifying one of the events to which the media content item relates using the contextual information;

tagging the event to the first media content item;

comparing the contextual information to the event-related data for the identified event; and

tagging at least some of the event-related data to the first media content item based at least in part on the comparison of the contextual information to the event-related data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the event-related data includes event segment data identifying segments of the event, the method further comprising:

identifying event segment data associated with a segment of the event to which the first media content relates, by comparing the contextual information with the event-related data; and

tagging the first media content with the event segment based at least in part on the comparison.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the event segment is a scored segment.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the event segment is a discrete action.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the event is a television show.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving second media content item;

identifying contextual information associated with the second media content item;

identifying the one of the events to which the media content item relates using the contextual information;

tagging the event to the second media content item;

comparing the contextual information associated with the second media item to the event-related data for the identified event;

tagging at least some of the event-related data to the second media content item based at least in part on the comparison of the contextual information to the event-related data;

wherein the at least some of the event-related data tagged to the second media content item is also tagged to the first media content item indicating a relationship between the first media content item and the second media content item.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing the first media content item and the second media content item in response to a single query received from a user due to the relationship between the first media content item and the second media content item.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the query is a search query.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the query is a request to access a chronological timeline display of media content items.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the chronological timeline display is a chronological timeline display associated with the event.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the query is an input provided to a display of the first media content item.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing relevant search results to a search query based at least in part on the tagging of the at least some of the event-related data to the first media content item.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the first media content item in a chronological display associated with the event based at least in part on the tagging of the at least some of the event-related data to the first media content item.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an advertisement to a user when the first media content item is displayed to the user based at least in part on the tagging of the at least some of the event-related data to the first media content item.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises a time stamp.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the time stamp comprises a date and time.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the time stamp comprises an elapsed time from a start of the event.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising computing an adjusted time based on a time zone.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises one or more keywords contained in the first media content item.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises a location.

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