Motion video indexing mechanism for athlete recruiting architecture

• US 7,500,260 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2004
• Issued: 03/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: D1Athletes.Com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: D1Athletes.Com, Inc.
• Inventors: Law, Will, Theder, Denae, Jordan, Mark, Lupoi, John, Agtual, Ollan
• Primary Examiner(s): Salce; Jason P
• Application Number:
  US10/753,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20050149976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,882 Days
• Field of Search: 725/136, 725 52- 53, 725/115, 725/131, 725/133, 725/141, 725/139, 707/104.1, 707 1- 10, 705/1, 705 10- 11, 705/26
• US Class Current: 725/53
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26603 for automatically generating descriptors from content, e.g. when it is not made available by its provider, using content analysis techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99938 Concurrency, e.g. lock management in shared database
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

An athlete recruiting architecture is disclosed. The athlete recruiting system allows a recruiting entity, such as a school, to search for and find athletes that satisfy recruiting entity-specified criteria. The athlete recruiting system also allows motion videos to be associated with athletes. These motion videos may be uploaded or streamed to interested recruiting entities over a communication network. The athlete recruiting system provides a video indexing mechanism that allows athletes and recruiting entities to generate and store indices to motion videos. The athlete recruiting system provides hit tracking mechanisms for notifying athletes about recruiting entities that have taken actions that indicate that the recruiting entities are interested in the athlete. As a result, athletes are encouraged to initiate contact with interested recruiting entities. This promotes the formation of relationships between athletes and recruiting entities while adhering to rules imposed on the recruiting process.

Claims

1. A method for indexing motion video, the method comprising the machine-implemented steps of:

storing a motion video file that represents an athletic event that was recorded by an agent of an administrative organization;

receiving, through a network communication link, from an athlete that participated in the athletic event, first data that indicates a first sub-segment of the motion video file;

in response to receiving the first data storing a first association between the motion video file and the first data on a particular non-volatile or volatile computer-readable medium;

sending, through a network communication link, to a potential recruiter of the athlete, only portions of the motion video file that correspond to the first sub-segment;

receiving, through a network communication link, from the potential recruiter, second data that indicates a second sub-segment of the first sub-segment; and

in response to receiving the second data, storing, on the particular non-volatile or volatile computer-readable medium an association between the motion video file, the second data, and the potential recruiter.

2. A volatile or non-volatile machine-readable medium for indexing motion video, the machine-readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

storing a motion video file that represents an athletic event that was recorded by an agent of an administrative organization;

receiving, through a network communication link, from an athlete that participated in the athletic event, first data that indicates a first sub-segment of the motion video file;

in response to receiving the first data storing a first association between the motion video file and the first data on a particular non-volatile or volatile computer-readable medium;

sending, through a network communication link, to a potential recruiter of the athlete, only portions of the motion video file that correspond to the first sub-segment;

receiving, through a network communication link, from the potential recruiter, second data that indicates a second sub-segment of the first sub-segment; and

in response to receiving the second data, storing, on the particular non-volatile or volatile computer-readable medium an association between the motion video file, the second data, and the potential recruiter.

3. An apparatus for indexing motion video, the apparatus comprising a memory carrying one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

storing a motion video file that represents an athletic event that was recorded by an agent of an administrative organization;

receiving, through a network communications link, from an athlete that participated in the athletic event, first data that indicates a first sub-segment of the motion video file;

in response to receiving the first data, storing a first association between the motion video file and the first data on a particular non-volatile or volatile computer-readable medium;

sending, through a network communication link, to a potential recruiter of the athlete, only portions of the motion video file that correspond to the first sub-segment;

receiving, through a network communication link, from the potential recruiter, second data that indicates a second sub-segment of the first sub-segment; and

in response to receiving the second data, storing, on the particular non-volatile or volatile computer-readable medium an association between the motion video file, the second data, and the potential recruiter.