Methods, systems, and products for analyzing annotations for related content

• US 7,596,549 B1
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Issued: 09/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qurio Holdings Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Qurio Holdings Incorporated
• Inventors: Walsh, Richard J., Issa, Alfredo C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Breene; John E
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, THU NGUYET T
• Application Number:
  US11/396,746
• Time in Patent Office: 1,275 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for analyzing annotations for related content. A set of annotations, occurring within a window of time in a segment of content, is received. A query is sent for related content having a membership subset of the set of annotations. A recommendation is sent for the related content.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a recommendation application stored in memory; and

a processor communicating with the memory and with the recommendation application,

the system receiving a set of annotations that occurs within a window of time in a segment of content, the system selecting a membership subset having an annotation from the set of annotations, the system querying for related content having the membership subset of the set of annotations, and the system sending a recommendation that recommends the related content, wherein the processor selects at least two annotations from the set of annotations that have a spatial relationship and a temporal relationship, wherein the spatial relationship relates to a proximity between the at least two annotations which may be used to determine a relationship between the at least two annotations and the processor queries for related content having the same spatial relationship and the same temporal relationship.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor queries for a strength of the temporal relationship, the strength based on at least one of:

i) proximity between the at least two annotations; and

ii) semantic distance in an ontology.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor queries for related content having a matching sequence of annotations for the membership subset.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor queries for related content having a matching semantic relationship to the membership subset.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor queries for related content having a matching pattern of annotations to the membership subset.