Index of locally recorded content

• US 8,090,694 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2006
• Issued: 01/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shahraray, Behzad, Gibbon, David, Begeja, Lee, Liu, Zhu, Cox, Richard V., Renger, Bernard S.
• Primary Examiner(s): COLAN, GIOVANNA B
• Application Number:
  US11/592,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20080124055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,888 Days
• Field of Search: 725/18, 725/61, 725/86, 725/136, 725/142, 725/114, 725/112, 725/38, 345/530, 707/673, 707/711, 707/741, 707/941, 707/914, 707/915, 707/916
• US Class Current: 707/673
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/743 a collection of video files or sequences
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4332 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. local EPG data repository interfaces, Database management systems or updating for information retrieval G06F16/23; details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video database G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/914 Video
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/915 Image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/916 Audio

Abstract

A method to index locally recorded content at a media device includes extracting, at a remote service provider, event index data from an event being locally recorded at a media device and associating the event index data with locator code data of the event. The method further includes storing, at the remote service provider, the extracted event index data and the associated locator code data; searching the extracted event index data for a plurality of segments associated with the event, the search being associated with a search request; determining index display data for a presentation of the plurality of segments based on the search request; and transmitting, to the media device, the locator code data associated with the plurality of segments, and the index display data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an index extraction service to extract event index data from an event being locally recorded at an end user media device and corresponding to at least one video segment of the recorded event, the index extraction service also to associate the event index data with locator code data of the event;

a storage device to record the extracted event index data and the associated locator code data;

an index association service to search the extracted event index data for a plurality of video segments associated with the event, the search being associated with a search request, the index association service further to determine index display data for a presentation of the plurality of video segments in response to the search request; and

a transmitter to send, to the media device, the index display data and the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments and associated with the event to extract an image to present in an index, wherein the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments is transmitted to the media device with the event and wherein the locator code data includes a start time and an end time of the at least one video segment of the recorded event and an access point of the at least one video segment of the recorded event;

wherein the index display data and locator code data is sent via a private access network being an internet protocol television access network and transmitted along with an electronic program guide.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the index display data for the presentation of the plurality of video segments includes a presentation format of the plurality of video segments in a display through the media device,

wherein the locator code data is selected from a group including:

a start time of the video segment, an end time of the video segment, an access point of the video segment, a broadcast channel of the video segment, a recording code associated with the video segment, any information useful in recording the video segment, and any other information useful in determining access to the video segment.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the locator code data associated with the plurality of segments is transmitted to the media device simultaneously with the event.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the locator code data is transmitted on a bandwidth that is lower than a bandwidth of the event.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the event is selected from a group including video content, audio content, and image content.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the event index data is selected from a group including text information associated with the event and pictorial information associated with the event.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the index extraction service synchronizes the locator code data to the locally recorded event.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the extracted event index data includes at least one of an image, text or a combination thereof.

8. A method comprising:

extracting event index data from an event being locally recorded at an end user media device and corresponding to at least one video segment of the recorded event and to associate the event index data with locator code data of the event, the media device including a memory coupled to a database and the event being locally recorded stored in the database, wherein extracting further includes identifying that the event is among a group including video content, audio content, and image content;

storing the extracted event index data and the associated locator code;

searching the extracted event index data for a plurality of video segments associated with the event, the search being associated with a search request;

determining index display data for a presentation of the plurality of video segments based on the search request; and

transmitting, to the media device, the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments and associated with the event to extract an image to present from an index, and the index display data, wherein the locator code data is transmitted over an internet protocol television access network and transmitted along with an electronic program guide wherein the locator code data associated with at least one of the plurality of video segments is transmitted to the media device with the event and wherein the locator code data includes a start time and an end time of at least one video segment of the recorded event and an access point of the at least one video segment of the recorded event.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein determining further includes recognizing that the index display data for the presentation of the plurality of video segments includes a presentation order of the plurality of video segments in a display through the media device.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising transmitting the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments to the media device separately from the event.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein extracting further includes identifying that the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments exclusively includes the locator code data of the locally recorded event.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising synchronizing the locator code data to the locally recorded event.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising extracting segment text and video segment images from the locally recorded event to create a segment index page at the media device, the segment index page created in a manner that does not involve retransmission of content.

22. The method of claim 8, wherein the extracted event index data includes at least one of an image, text or a combination thereof.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors perform the following operations:

extract event index data from event being locally recorded at an end user media device and corresponding to at least one video segment of the recorded event and to associate the event index data with locator code data of the event;

store the extracted event index data and the associated locator code data;

search the extracted event index data for a plurality of video segments associated with the event, the search being associated with a search request;

determine index display data for a presentation of the plurality of video segments based on the search request; and

transmit, to the media device, the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments and associated with the event to extract an image to present from an index, and the index display data, wherein the locator code data is transmitted over an internet protocol television access network and transmitted along with an electronic program guide wherein the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments is transmitted to the media device with the event and wherein the locator code data includes a start time and an end time of at least one video segment of the recorded event and an access point of the at least one video segment of the recorded event.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein determining further includes recognizing that the index display data for the presentation of the plurality of segments includes a presentation order of the plurality of segments in a display through the media device.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 14 further comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors perform the following operations:

transmit the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments to the media device separately from the event.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein extracting further includes identifying that the event is among a group including video content, audio content, and image content.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein extracting further includes identifying that the locator code data associated with the plurality of video segments exclusively includes the locator code data of the locally recorded event.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 14 further comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors perform the following operations:

synchronize the locator code data to the locally recorded event.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 14 further comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors perform the following operations:

extract segment text and segment images from the locally recorded event to create a segment index page at the media device, the segment index page created in a manner that does not involve retransmission of content.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the extracted event index data includes at least one of an image, text or a combination thereof.