Variable-content video retriever

• US 5,717,814 A
• Filed: 09/16/1994
• Issued: 02/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nissim Corp.
• Original Assignee: Nissim Corp.
• Inventors: Abecassis, Max
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US08/307,325
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• Field of Search: 358/335, 358/310, 348/6, 348/7, 348/12, 348/13, 360/33.1, 360/13, 360/32
• US Class Current: 386/299
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/022 Control panels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/04 Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against double recording on the same blank or against other recording or reproducing malfunctions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/14 specially adapted to record on, or to reproduce from, more than one track simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/10 Arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or the distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234318 by decomposing into objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2543 Billing , e.g. for subscription services payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; e-commerce G06Q30/00; arrangements for billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/21
• 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 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; 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 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 : Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 : End-user applications
• 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 21/4755 : for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 : for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 : involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 : represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/4448 : for frame-grabbing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 : on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 : Handling of requests in head-ends
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 : the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A video retrieving method/system that permits a viewer to establish video content preferences, request a video from a remote video provider, and receive a version of the requested video that is responsive to an application of the content preferences to a content map that provides for a variable arrangement of a plurality of video segments of the requested video. Alternatively, the viewer receives the requested video and a content map of the requested video, enabling the viewer to produce a version of the received video responsive to an application of the content preferences to the content map.

Claims

1. A method of retrieving a video comprising the steps of:

establishing a viewer'"'"'s content preferences;

receiving, from a remote video provider, a previously edited video and information defining a plurality of video segments of said video; and

playing, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.

3. A method of retrieving a video comprising the steps of:

establishing a viewer'"'"'s content preferences;

receiving a previously edited video from a remote video provider;

retrieving information defining a plurality of video segments of said video; and

playing, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.

5. A method of retrieving a video comprising the steps of:

establishing a viewer'"'"'s content preferences;

requesting a previously edited video from a remote video provider, said video having information defining a plurality of video segments;

providing said remote video provider said content preferences; and

receiving, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.

7. A method of retrieving a video comprising the steps of:

communicating a viewer'"'"'s content preferences to a remote video provider;

requesting a previously edited video from said remote video provider, said video having information defining a plurality of video segments; and

receiving, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.

9. A video retriever system comprising:

establishing means for a viewer to establish content preferences;

receiving means for receiving, from a remote video provider, a previously edited video and information defining a plurality of video segments of said video; and

playing means for playing, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.

11. A video retriever system comprising:

establishing means for a viewer to establish content preferences;

receiving means for receiving a previously edited video from a remote video provider;

retrieving means for retrieving information defining a plurality of video segments of said video; and

playing means for playing, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.

13. A video retriever system comprising:

communicating means for communicating a viewer'"'"'s content preferences to a remote video provider;

requesting means for requesting a previously edited video from said remote video provider, said video having information defining a plurality of video segments; and

receiving means for receiving, responsive to said content preferences and said information and without requiring editing by said viewer, a continuous version of said video that is different in length than the length of said video.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said previously edited video includes within at least one non-sequential video segment.