System and method for interleaving of material from database and customized audio-visual material

• US 6,912,544 B1
• Filed: 08/31/2000
• Issued: 06/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mavenir Ltd. (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Weiner, Moshe
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Greta
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Debbie M.
• Application Number:
  US09/652,002
• Time in Patent Office: 1,762 Days
• Field of Search: 707/102, 707/104.1, 707/10, 707/1, 707/3, 707/4, 709201-203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A system and method for real-time transfer of multimedia material from a remote device to a centralized multi-media storage unit, wherein the multimedia material is combined with extrinsic material to generate a virtual record. A user selects specifications and instructions via a remote terminal for retrieving the extrinsic material from external databases and interleaving the retrieved extrinsic material to the multimedia material provided by the user. Iteration of the selecting of user specifications and instructions and the interleaving process is performed until a final virtual record is produced which is satisfactory to the user.

Claims

1. An apparatus for the storage and modification of multi-media data, comprising:

a data recording unit configured to generate media data, wherein the media data comprises at least one of audio data or image data of a recorded event;

a transmitter unit communicably linked to said recording unit and configured to receive said media data from said data recording unit and transmit said media data via a digital mobile network in real time as it is generated by said data recording unit; and

a first server unit configured to receive and store said media data transmitted from the transmitter.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a second server unit communicably linked to said first server unit and configured to retrieve said recorded media data from said first server and combine said media data with extrinsic data to generate a virtual record of said recorded event.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said second server unit is configured to transmit said virtual record to said first server and said first server stores said virtual record.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said second server unit is configured said extrinsic data from at least one database in accordance with user specifications.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a terminal configured to input said user specifications for retrieving said extrinsic data from said external database.

6. The he apparatus of claim 4, wherein said second server unit includes a local database configured to store previously retrieved extrinsic material.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein said terminal is configured to transmit to said second server unit user instructions for combining said media data with said extrinsic data to generate said virtual record of said recorded event.

8. A method for generating a virtual record of multimedia data, the method comprising:

(a) transmitting from a remote unit via a digital mobile network user generated multimedia data in real time as it is generated, the user generated multimedia data comprising at least one of audio data and video data of a recorded event;

(b) receiving and storing said user generated multimedia data at a central unit;

(c) inputting specifications for obtaining extrinsic data;

(d) retrieving the extrinsic data from at least one database;

(e) combining said extrinsic data and said user generated multimedia data stored at the central unit to create interleaved multimedia data;

(f) storing said interleaved multimedia data at said central unit.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said operation (d) comprises:

(d1) retrieving preliminary extrinsic data from said database; and

(d2) selecting the extrinsic data for addition to said user generated multimedia data from said preliminary extrinsic data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said operation (d) further comprises:

(d3) entering user instructions for combining said extrinsic data with said user generated multimedia data.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the operation (d1) further comprises transmitting the preliminary extrinsic data to a remote terminal.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

(g) transmitting said interleaved multimedia data to a remote terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

(h) providing instructions for editing said interleaved multimedia data; and

(i) editing said interleaved multimedia data by repeating operations (c) through (f).

14. A system for generating a virtual record from a user record comprising at least one of audio data and video data of an event, the system comprising:

a data recorder configured to generate the user record;

a remote transmitter device configured to receive the user record from the data recorder and transmit via a wireless communications link the user record in real-time as it is generated by the data recorder;

a central server configured to receive and store the user record transmitted from the remote transmitter;

a virtual record server configured to retrieve the user record from the central server, combine the user record and the extrinsic material to generate the virtual record and transmit the virtual record to the central server for storage.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a user terminal configured to input user specifications regarding the extrinsic material, wherein the virtual record server is configured to retrieve the extrinsic material from at least one external database in accordance with the user specifications.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the virtual server is configured to transmit the virtual record to the user terminal and the user terminal is configured to transmit additional user specifications to the virtual server for editing the virtual record.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising a communications network communicably linking the central server, the virtual record server and user terminal.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the central server comprises a multimedia messaging server.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the virtual record server comprises a storage unit configured to store previously retrieved extrinsic data.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the central server comprises a storage unit configured to store the user record and the virtual record.

21. The of claim 18, wherein the remoter transmitter device is configured to transmit the user record to the multimedia messaging server in real-time as the user record is generated by the data recorder.