Media enhancement mechanism using embed code

• US 8,290,929 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2007
• Issued: 10/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Martinez, Ronald, Rogers, Ian C., Fisher, Roberto Warren, Kalaboukis, Chris
• Primary Examiner(s): SYED, FARHAN M
• Application Number:
  US11/925,280
• Publication Number:
  US 20090112839A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,817 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/712
• 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: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets

Abstract

A method to provide additional media objects for data objects containing one or more existing media objects is described. The existing media object is analyzed to determine additional related media available on the network, and the data object description is augmented with metadata to identify the additional media in an enhanced data object description. When the enhanced data object is rendered, the metadata facilitates incorporation of additional media objects in the displayed page.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, via at least one processor, a request for embed code for a user application with an application programming interface;

generating, via the at least one processor, embed code comprising computer-readable instructions operative to;

access one or more media object attributes of the data object containing the embed code and referencing at least one media object;

interact with one or more remote server systems to retrieve one or more additional media objects associated with the one or more media object attributes, the embed code including one or more account attributes for identifying the one or more additional media objects; and

render the one or more additional media objects within a context of the data object;

transmitting, via the at least one processor, the embed code in response to the request;

accessing, via the at least one processor, a content consuming entity identifier in the media object request resulting from execution of the embed code; and

identifying, via the at least one processor, the one or more additional media objects to be associated with the one or more media object attributes of the data object, the one or more account attributes associated with the content consuming entity identifier, the identifying one or more media objects is biased by the one or more account attributes associated with the content consuming entity identifier.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to receiving a media object request;

returning, via the at least one processor, one or more of the identified media objects in response to the media object request.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to receiving a media object request;

invoking, via the at least one processor, one or more computer-readable instructions operative to;

access one or more pre-assigned meta parameters of the referenced at least one media object which are embedded in the data object;

access one or more preconfigured parameters of the embed code associated with the referenced at least one media object;

invoke media object access scripts to access remotely stored parameters associated with the referenced at least one media object;

combine the pre-assigned, preconfigured, and remotely stored parameters in a set of related media-identifying phrases; and

determine a set of keywords associated with the related media-identifying phrases in a keyword database; and

identify the one or more additional media objects associated with the one or more of the determined keywords in a media object database.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein one or more account attribute comprise user preference.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more account attribute comprise user access privilege information.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining an identifier for a user associated with the request for embed code; and

adding the requesting user identifier as a content embedding entity'"'"' identifier to the embed code.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

responsive to receiving a media object request,

identifying the one of more additional media objects to be associated with the one or more media object attributes of the data object, wherein the identifying the one or more additional media objects is biased by the one or more account attributes associated with the content embedding entity identifier; and

returning the one or more identified media objects to the client host in response to the media object request.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the embed code further comprises computer-readable instructions to cause the host processor to define one or more media object player interfaces to be associated with the identified one or more additional media objects, and optionally retrieve one or more code modules corresponding to the one or more media object player interfaces.

9. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

accessing one or more media object ratings corresponding to one or more media objects;

and wherein the identifying one or more additional media objects is biased by the one or more media object ratings.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the embed code is further operative to cause the host processor to:

access a script operative to cause the host processor to scan for the one or more media object attributes of the data object; and

transmit the one or more media object attributes to the remote server system.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the embed code comprises HTML source code.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the embed code contains JavaScript code.

13. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

processing the one or more media object attributes to determine one or more keywords associated with one or more related media objects;

rating the relative importance of determined keywords;

accessing one or more ranking attributes of the related media objects;

combining the rating and ranking attributes to determine a priority of the related media objects; and

using the priority of related media objects to identify the one or more additional media objects.

14. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

accessing one or more attributes of the consuming user identified in the media object request;

determining access privileges for the content consuming user from the one or more attributes of the consuming user;

determining media objects the consuming user has privilege to access; and

restricting selection of media objects to enforce the user access privileges.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions operative, when executed, to cause one or more processors to:

receive a request for embed code;

generate embed code into a data object, the embed code operative to;

access one or more media object attributes of the data object containing the embed code and referencing at least one media object;

interact with one or more remote server systems to retrieve one or more additional media objects associated with the one or more media object attributes, the embed code including one or more account attributes for identifying the one or more additional media objects; and

render the one or more additional media objects within the context of the data object;

access a content consuming entity identifier in the media object request resulting from execution of the embed code; and

identify the one or more additional media objects to be associated with the one or more media object attributes of the data object, the one or more account attributes associated with the content consuming entity identifier, the identifying one or more media objects is biased by the one or more account attributes associated with the content consuming entity identifier.

16. A method comprising:

storing, by a computing device, embed code comprising computer-readable instructions operative, when executed, to;

access one or more media object attributes of a data object containing the embed code and referencing at least one media object;

interact with one or more remote server systems to retrieve one or more additional media objects associated with the one or more media object attributes, the embed code including one or more account attributes for identifying the one or more additional media objects;

render the one or more media objects within the context of the data object;

access a content consuming entity identifier in the media object request resulting from execution of the embed code;

identify the one or more additional media objects to be associated with the one or more media object attributes of the data object, the one or more account attributes associated with the content consuming entity identifier, the identifying one or more media objects is biased by the one or more account attributes associated with the content consuming entity identifier; and

storing, by the computing device, enhancing code comprising computer-readable instructions operative, when executed, to;

access one or more attributes of the data object; and

embed, responsive to a received command, one or more sections of the embed code in the data object, wherein a data object file modifier operatively inserts the one or more embed code sections into the data object.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

obtaining the embed code from a remote server; and

modifying the embed code to incorporate one or more user enhancement preferences.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein one user enhancement preference comprises a media object type preferences.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the user command identifies a selection of one or more media object attributes of the data object;

and wherein the method further comprises modifying the embed code based on the selection of the one or more media object attributes.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising extracting one or more keywords from the selection of one or more media object attributes, and modifying the embed code to include the one or more keywords.