SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND UTILIZING METADATA REGARDING THE STRUCTURE OF PROGRAM CONTENT

• US 20140355954A1
• Filed: 08/13/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Negron, Eric, Black, Jeremy K., Hayes, Patrick H. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 9,711,185 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

Metadata is created in connection with an editing of a copy of a digital media for the purpose of generating a sample of the digital media, such as a ringtone generated from a song. The metadata is published and is retrievable for use in editing another copy of the digital media to automatically recreate the media sample.

Claims

1. A method for using metadata to affect a rendering of a media, comprising:

receiving at a network server from each of a plurality of playback devices data indicative of a manner in which a user interacted with the media while the media was being rendered by each of the plurality of playback devices;

using at the network server the data received from each of the plurality of playback devices to create metadata for use in affecting a future rendering of the media by a further playback device; and

receiving at the network server from the further playback device a request for the created metadata; and

transmitting from the network server to the further playback device in response to the request the created metadata whereupon the created metadata is usable by the further playback device to affect the rendering of the media by the further playback device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data indicative of the manner in which a user interacted with the media while the media was being rendered comprises data indicative of at least one rendering control command provided to a corresponding one of the plurality of playback devices.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one rendering control command comprises a fast forward command.

4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the data indicative of the manner in which a user interacted with the media while the media was being rendered further comprises a time associated with the provisioning to the corresponding one of the plurality of playback devices of the at least one rendering control command.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein time associated with the provisioning to the corresponding one of the plurality of playback device of the at least one rendering control command comprises a time referenced to a predetermined part of the media being rendered.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the predetermined part of the media being rendered comprises a start of the media being rendered.

7. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the data indicative of the manner in which a user interacted with the media while the media was being rendered further comprises a time duration associated with the provisioning to the corresponding one of the plurality of playback devices of the at least one rendering control command.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of playback devices comprises a digital video recorder device.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of playback devices comprises a computing device.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the server device provides to the further playback device a digital copy of the media with the created metadata.

11. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the data indicative of at least one rendering control command provided to a corresponding one of the plurality of playback devices comprises data indicative of a remote control command issued to the corresponding one of the plurality of playback devices.

12. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the metadata is usable by the further playback device to create a ringtone from the media.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the metadata further comprises instructions to be provided to the further playback device for automatically installing the ringtone on the further playback device.

14. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the metadata comprises data indicative of a segment of the media to be used for the ringtone.