User interface for media item portion search tool

• US 7,707,500 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2005
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Martinez, Ronald
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore; William L
• Assistant Examiner(s): TANK, ANDREW L
• Application Number:
  US11/292,034
• Publication Number:
  US 20070083496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,609 Days
• Field of Search: 715716-717, 715/792, 715/968, 715723-725, 715/727, 707/7, 707/102, 705/26, 705/27
• US Class Current: 715/717
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/968 interface for database querying and retrieval

Abstract

A user interface for accessing and utilizing a media item portion database. In one aspect, the database entry comprises a data container. In another aspect, the media item portion entries may be used to identify media item portions used in creating composite media items.

Claims

1. A user interface visibly displayed to a user on a display comprising:

a search entry area visibly displayed on the display for populating with a parameter associated with a desired media item portion, a media item portion being a portion or component of a media item and not the entire media item, said desired media item portion being associated with a media item portion entry accessed from a searchable media item portion database comprising media item portion metadata stored in accordance with a data container format, said media item portion metadata comprising commerce terms;

a user input element for initiating a search of said media item portion database in accordance with said parameter;

a first area for visibly displaying on the display a result of said search, said result comprising the media item portion metadata, said displayed metadata being displayed in a manner so as to translate some portion of said metadata in said data container format into user perceptible form and to display the commerce terms by which said media item portion may be utilized to form a composite media item with at least one other media item portion; and

a second area for visibly displaying on the display filter parameters by which said metadata is filtered based on a type of the media item portion to affect which metadata is displayed.

2. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said search entry area comprises a text entry box.

3. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said search entry area comprises a drop-down menu from which parameters may be selected.

4. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said populated parameter comprises a title associated with said media item portion.

5. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said populated parameter comprises a format type associated with said media item portion.

6. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said populated parameter comprises the identity of a creator of said media item portion.

7. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said populated parameter comprises the identity of an owner of said media item portion.

8. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said populated parameter comprises a genre associated with said media item portion.

9. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said populated parameter comprises commerce enabling information associated with said media item portion.

10. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said user input element comprises a button.

11. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprise a title associated with said media item portion.

12. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises a format type associated with said media item portion.

13. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises a size associated with said media item portion.

14. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises the identity of a creator of said media item portion.

15. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises the identity of an owner of said media item portion.

16. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata is visibly displayed in said first area in a columnar format.

17. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises a set of usage rights associated with said media item portion.

18. The user interface of claim 17 wherein said usage rights comprise a commercial designation indicating that said media item portion may be used for commercial purposes.

19. The user interface of claim 17 wherein said usage rights comprise a non-commercial designation indicating that said media item portion can only be used for non-commercial purposes.

20. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata identifies a licensing term associated with a media item portion.

21. The user interface of claim 20 wherein said licensing term comprises a price per copy of said media item portion.

22. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises a genre associated with said media item portion.

23. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said displayed metadata comprises commerce enabling information.

24. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters are visibly displayed as a categorical menu.

25. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters comprise an audio file filter.

26. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters comprise a video file filter.

27. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters comprise an image file filter.

28. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters comprise a text file filter.

29. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters comprise a filter associated with visibly displaying in said first area only locally stored media item portions.

30. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said filter parameters comprise a filter associated with visibly displaying in said first area only media item portions accessible from said database.

31. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising a third area comprising a first interactable indicia representing a media item portion addition action for signaling a program to add said media item portion to a user'"'"'s local media item portion library.

32. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising a third area comprising a first interactable indicia representing a media item portion bookmarking action, for signaling a program to create a reference associated with said media item portion on a user'"'"'s local browser.

33. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising a third area for visibly displaying a graphical representation of a media item portion entry upon highlighting a result from said first area.

34. The user interface of claim 1 wherein upon selecting said result from said first area causes the display of a fourth area visibly displaying commerce enabling information with said media item portion.

35. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said fourth area comprises a subarea containing a portion of said commerce enabling information.

36. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said fourth area comprises a plurality of subareas each visibly displaying a portion of said commerce enabling information.

37. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises an attribution of a publisher.

38. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises a price per copy of said media item portion.

39. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises an identity of a rights holder.

40. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises a set of licensing terms.

41. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises a copyright message.

42. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises a digital rights message.

43. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises a pointer to a copyright message.

44. The user interface of claim 34 wherein said commerce enabling information comprises a pointer to licensing information.

45. The user interface of claim 1 wherein upon selecting said result from said first area, said first area visibly displays a graphical representation of said media item portion.

46. The user interface of claim 45 wherein said first area further visibly displays textual information associated with said media item portion.