METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA ITEMS

• US 20160173960A1
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Eyegroove, Inc.
• Inventors: Baizel, Emile, Pollack, James, Snibbe, Scott, McDermott, Graham, Ponczec, Justin, Schoeben, Spencer, Fulton, Jesse
• Application Number:
  US15/051,618
• Publication Number:
  US 20160173960A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1787 Details of non-transparently synchronising file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2246 Trees, e.g. B+trees
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/43 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/432 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/483 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23424 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/242 Synchronization processes, e.g. processing of PCR [Program Clock References] arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems in broadcast distribution systems H04H20/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25825 involving client display capabilities, e.g. screen resolution of a mobile phone optimising the visualisation of content during browsing in the Internet G06F16/9577; processing of terminal status or physical abilities in wireless networks H04W8/22; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 : being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 : End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 : Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 : Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/08 : Separation of synchronising signals from picture signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for generating an audiovisual media item. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system. The method includes: (1) receiving, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a creation request to create the media item, the creation request including information identifying one or more audio files and one or more visual media files; (2) obtaining the visual media files; (3) requesting at least one audio file from a server in accordance with the information identifying the audio files; (4) in response to the request, receiving at least one audio file from the server; (5) obtaining any remaining audio files; (6) in response to receiving the creation request, generating the audiovisual media item based on the audio files and the visual media files; and (7) storing the generated audiovisual media item in a media item database.

Claims

1. A method for generating an audiovisual media item, the method comprising:

at a server system with one or more processors and memory;

receiving, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a creation request to create the audiovisual media item, the creation request including information identifying one or more audio files and one or more visual media files;

obtaining the one or more visual media files;

requesting at least one audio file of the one or more audio files from a server in accordance with the information in the creation request identifying the one or more audio files, the server distinct from the server system and the first electronic device;

in response to the request, receiving the at least one audio file from the server;

obtaining any remaining audio files of the one or more audio files;

in response to receiving the creation request, generating the audiovisual media item based on the one or more audio files and the one or more visual media files; and

storing the generated audiovisual media item in a media item database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more visual media files comprise one or more audiovisual files.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the audiovisual media item comprises:

converting at least one of the one or more visual media files from a first format to a second format; and

generating the audiovisual media item based on the converted visual media file.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more visual media files is obtained from a second server, distinct from the server system and the first electronic device;

and

the method further comprises requesting the at least one visual media file from the second server in accordance with the information in the creation request identifying the one or more visual media files.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving metadata associated with the one or more visual media files;

and

wherein generating the audiovisual media item comprises generating the audiovisual media item based on the one or more audio files, the one or more visual media files, and the received metadata.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the metadata includes editing information, the editing information corresponding to one or more user edits of the one or more visual media files;

and

wherein generating the audiovisual media item comprises editing at least one of the one or more visual media files based on the editing information.

7. The method of claim 5, the method further comprising obtaining one or more effects;

and

wherein the metadata includes effects information, the effects information corresponding to one or more effects.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the metadata includes synchronization information for simultaneous playback of the one or more visual media files with the one or more audio files.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein at least a portion of the metadata is received from a second electronic device, the second electronic device associated with a second user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the audiovisual media item further comprises editing the one or more visual media files;

and

wherein editing the one or more visual media files includes editing the one or more visual media files based on at least one of;

motion within the one or more visual media files;

audio within the one or more visual media files; and

audio within the one or more audio files.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending, to the first electronic device, the generated audiovisual media item for playback at the first electronic device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining optimal formatting and quality settings for playback of the audiovisual media item at the first electronic device;

and

wherein sending the generated audiovisual media item to the first electronic device comprises sending the generated audiovisual media item with the optimal formatting and quality settings applied.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the optimal formatting and quality settings are based on one or more user preferences of the first user.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a modification request to modify the generated audiovisual media item;

generating a new audiovisual media item based on the generated audiovisual media item and the modification request;

storing the new audiovisual media item in the media item database; and

storing metadata within the media item database, the metadata indicating a relationship between the generated audiovisual media item and the new audiovisual media item.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the modification request is associated with a second user;

wherein generating the audiovisual media item includes attributing the audiovisual media item to the first user; and

wherein generating the new audiovisual media item includes attributing the new audiovisual media item to the second user.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising generating an alert to notify one or more users that the new audiovisual media item has been generated.

17. A server system comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for;

receiving, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a creation request to create the audiovisual media item, the creation request including information identifying one or more audio files and one or more visual media files;

obtaining the one or more visual media files;

requesting at least one audio file of the one or more audio files from a server in accordance with the information in the creation request identifying the one or more audio files, the server distinct from the server system and the first electronic device;

in response to the request, receiving the at least one audio file from the server;

obtaining any remaining audio files of the one or more audio files;

in response to receiving the creation request, generating the audiovisual media item based on the one or more audio files and the one or more visual media files; and

storing the generated audiovisual media item in a media item database.

18. The server system of claim 17, the one or more programs further comprising instructions for receiving metadata associated with the one or more visual media files;

and

wherein generating the audiovisual media item comprises generating the audiovisual media item based on the one or more audio files, the one or more visual media files, and the received metadata.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a server system, cause the system to:

receive, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a creation request to create the audiovisual media item, the creation request including information identifying one or more audio files and one or more visual media files;

obtain the one or more visual media files;

request at least one audio file of the one or more audio files from a server in accordance with the information in the creation request identifying the one or more audio files, the server distinct from the server system and the first electronic device;

in response to the request, receive the at least one audio file from the server;

obtain any remaining audio files of the one or more audio files;

in response to receiving the creation request, generate the audiovisual media item based on the one or more audio files and the one or more visual media files; and

store the generated audiovisual media item in a media item database.

20. The storage medium of claim 19, the one or more programs further comprising instructions, which when executed by the server system, cause the system to receive metadata associated with the one or more visual media files;

and

wherein generating the audiovisual media item comprises generating the audiovisual media item based on the one or more audio files, the one or more visual media files, and the received metadata.