Video channel creation systems and methods

• US 7,814,513 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2006
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Evani, Sai Surya Kiran, Sarukkai, Ramesh R., Thrall, John, Zhang, Ruofei
• Primary Examiner(s): Koenig; Andrew Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bantamoi; Anthony
• Application Number:
  US11/517,495
• Publication Number:
  US 20080060013A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• Field of Search: 725 44- 46, 725/53, 725/57, 725 86-104, 725 48- 49
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739

Abstract

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more channels for the organization of content items. A method according to one embodiment comprises selecting a content item and one or more items of metadata for the selected content item. A determination is made to determine if the selected content item should be associated with a given channel on the basis of the metadata. A channel is generated on the basis of the determination, with the selected content item organized in association with the channel.

Claims

1. A method for generating one or more channels for the organization of content items, the method comprising:

selecting a content item and one or more items of content metadata for the selected content item, the content item being a video content item;

determining a channel associated with the selected content item and channel keywords associated with the channel having the selected content item associated therewith;

determining at least one channel category for the selected content item based on the associated channel, the one or more channel categories based, at least in part, on the one or more keywords associated with the given channel;

determining if the channel is part of a network;

if the channel is part of the network, determining if the selected content item should be associated with a given channel on the basis of the content metadata and the channel information associated with the given channel; and

if the channel is not part of the network, generating a new channel, the selected content item and the new channel organized in association with the channel and the channel data, the new channel added to the network.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieving channel information comprises determining one or more keywords that describe the given channel.

3. The method of claim 1 comprising storing the channel information in a data store.

4. The method of claim 3 where storing comprises storing in a channel index.

5. The method of claim 1 comprising storing the metadata for the content item in a data store.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein storing comprises storing in a video index.

7. The method of claim 1 comprising storing the association between the channel and the content item in a data store.