Facilitation of hypervideo by automatic IR techniques in response to user requests

• US 6,569,206 B1
• Filed: 10/29/1999
• Issued: 05/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Dey, Jayanta Kumar, Ponte, Jay Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Herndon, Heather R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUYNH, CONG LAC T
• Application Number:
  US09/429,731
• Time in Patent Office: 1,306 Days
• Field of Search: 707/501, 707/4, 707/102, 345/302, 709/206, 705/14, 715/501.1
• US Class Current: 715/256
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/748 Hypervideo linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object in the context of video distribution systems H04N21/858
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose content varies with time. The method takes advantage of information retrieval techniques to select documents related to the portion of the temporal document in which the user has expressed interest.

Claims

1. A method for finding documents which are accessed through the Internet and relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:

(a) in response to a signal of interest at a particular time during the temporal document, identifying a portion of the temporal document for which related documents are to be found;

(b) selecting the related documents by use of information retrieval techniques from among a collection of documents which may be accessed through the Internet, by utilizing databases comprising information about the collection, according to the scores achieved when evaluating documents in the collection according to a formula giving scores to documents depending upon the occurrence in the documents of terms which occur in text associated with the portion of the temporal document identified, wherein a score S_D of a document D in the collection may be determined by crediting the document D, for each term T in the temporal portion of the document identified which occurs in the document D, with an amount proportional to Robertson'"'"'s term frequency TF_TD and to IDF_T where

2. The method of claim 1, wherein K₁ is 0.5, K₂ is 1.5, K₃ is 0.5, and K₄ is 1.0.

3. A device for finding documents which are accessed through the Internet and relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:

(a) means for identifying, in response to a signal of interest at a particular time during the temporal document, a portion of the temporal document for which related documents are to be found;

(b) means for selecting the related documents by use of information retrieval techniques from among a collection of documents which may be accessed through the Internet, by utilizing databases comprising information about the collection, according to the scores achieved when evaluating documents in the collection according to a formula giving scores to documents depending upon the occurrence in the documents of terms which occur in text associated with the portion of the temporal document identified, wherein a score S_D of a document D in the collection may be determined by crediting the document D, for each term T in the temporal portion of the document identified which occurs in the document D, with an amount proportional to Robertson'"'"'s term frequency TF_TD and to IDF_T where

4. The device of claim 3, wherein K₁ is 0.5, K₂ is 1.5, K₃ is 0.5, and K₄ is 1.0.

5. A method for finding documents which are accessed through the Internet and relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:

(a) initiating a signal of interest at any time during the temporal document;

(b) capturing content based on the time of the signal of interest; and

(c) selecting the related documents, based upon the content captured, by use of information retrieval techniques, from among a collection of documents which may be accessed through the Internet, by utilizing databases comprising information about the collection, according to the scores achieved when evaluating documents in the collection according to a formula giving scores to documents depending upon the occurrence in the documents of terms which occur in the content captured, wherein a score S_D of a document D in the collection may be determined by crediting the document D, for each term T in the temporal portion of the document identified which occurs in the document D, with an amount proportional to Robertson'"'"'s term frequency TF_TD and to IDF_T where

6. The method of claim 5, wherein K₁ is 0.5, K₂ is 1.5, K₃ is 0.5, and K₄ is 1.0.

7. A device for finding documents which are accessed through the Internet and relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:

(a) means for initiating a signal of interest at any time during the temporal document;

(b) means for capturing content based on the time of the signal of interest; and

(c) means for selecting the related documents, based upon the content captured, by use of information retrieval techniques, from among a collection of documents which may be accessed through the Internet, by utilizing databases comprising information about the collection, according to the scores achieved when evaluating documents in the collection according to a formula giving scores to documents depending upon the occurrence in the documents of terms which occur in the content captured, wherein a score S_D of a document D in the collection may be determined by crediting the document D, for each term T in the temporal portion of the document identified which occurs in the document D, with an amount proportional to Robertson'"'"'s term frequency TF_TD and to IDF_T where

8. The device of claim 7, wherein K₁ is 0.5, K₂ is 1.5, K₃ is 0.5, and K₄ is 1.0.

9. A method for finding documents which relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:

(a) initiating a signal of interest at any time during the temporal document;

(b) capturing content based on the time of the signal of interest;

(c) finding the related documents based upon the content captured by use of information retrieval techniques, including related documents not previously associated with the content captured; and

(d) selecting the related documents from among a collection of documents which may be accessed through the Internet, by utilizing databases comprising information about the collection;

wherein the related documents are selected from the collection according to the scores achieved when evaluating documents in the collection according to a formula giving scores to documents depending upon the occurrence in the documents of terms which occur in the content captured;

wherein a score S_D of a document D in the collection may be determined by crediting the document D, for each term T in the temporal portion of the document identified which occurs in the document D, with an amount proportional to Robertson'"'"'s term frequency TF_TD and to IDF_T where

10. The method of claim 9, wherein K₁ is 0.5, K₂ is 1.5, K₃ is 0.5, and K₄ is 1.0.

11. A device for finding documents which relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:

(a) means for initiating a signal of interest at any time during the temporal document;

(b) means for capturing content based on the time of the signal of interest;

(c) means for finding the related documents based upon the content captured by use of information retrieval techniques, including related documents not previously associated with the content captured; and

(d) means for selecting the related documents from among a collection of documents which may be accessed through the Internet, by utilizing databases comprising information about the collection;

wherein the related documents are selected from the collection according to the scores achieved when evaluating documents in the collection according to a formula giving scores to documents depending upon the occurrence in the documents of terms which occur in the content captured;

wherein a score S_D of a document D in the collection may be determined by crediting the document D, for each term T in the temporal portion of the document identified which occurs in the document D, with an amount proportional to Robertson'"'"'s term frequency TF_TD and to IDF_T where

12. The device of claim 11, wherein K₁ is 0.5, K₂ is 1.5, K₃ is 0.5, and K₄ is 1.0.