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Abstract
An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for generating one or more descriptors that may potentially be associated with content, such as video or a segment of video. In some embodiments, a teaser for the content may be identified based on contextual similarity between words and/or phrases in the segment and one or more other segments, such as a previous segment. In some embodiments, an optical character recognition (OCR) technique may be applied to the content, such as banners or graphics associated with the content in order to generate or identify OCR'"'"'d text or characters. The text/characters may serve as a candidate descriptor(s). In some embodiments, one or more strings of characters or words may be compared with (pre-assigned) tags associated with the content, and if it is determined that the one or more strings or words match the tags within a threshold, the one or more strings or words may serve as a candidate descriptor(s). One or more candidate descriptor identification techniques may be combined.
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21 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a computing device, descriptive data for at least a first segment of a content item and a second segment of the content item; comparing, by the computing device and based at least in part on the descriptive data, first segment words with second segment words, wherein the first segment words comprise a plurality of words from the first segment from the first segment and second segment words comprise one or more words from the second segment; determining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the comparing, that the first segment words are descriptive of the second segment; and determining, by the computing device and responsive to determining that the first segment words are descriptive of the second segment, the first segment words as a candidate descriptor of the second segment. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a computing device, descriptive data for a segment of a content item; receiving, by the computing device, at least one tag assigned to the content item; iteratively comparing, by the computing device, the descriptive data and the at least one tag; and determining, by the computing device, whether to add the descriptive data to a candidate descriptor for the content item based on the comparing. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method comprising:
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determining, by a computing device, a first relationship strength between a first segment of a content item and a second segment of the content item by iteratively comparing words from the first segment with words from the second segment; and determining, by the computing device, whether to use the words from the first segment as a candidate descriptor for the second segment responsive to the first relationship strength exceeding a minimum threshold using the words from the first segment and the words from the second segment. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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