Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing audio and/or video information via a web broadcast

• US 8,583,644 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2012
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bedingfield, James Carlton Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chbouki, Tarek
• Application Number:
  US13/491,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20120245938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/736
• 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: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

Provided Web broadcast information is managed by annotation markers. At least one marker is received that annotates the audio and/or video information and the annotated audio and/or video information is saved in an electronically searchable file.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing, by a system comprising a processor, media information via a web broadcast;

converting, by the system, audio content in the media information to textual content;

generating, by the system, a group of words from the textual content that are correlated to one or more passages in the textual content to enable a search of words from the group of words to cause a retrieval of the one or more passages in the textual content;

presenting, by the system, equipment of a web broadcast listener with a user interface for entering a plurality of markers;

receiving, by the system, the plurality of markers during the web broadcast that annotates the audio content in the media information based on one or more words searched from the group of words, wherein the plurality of markers are correlated to a corresponding plurality of segments of the media information, wherein the plurality of markers are descriptive of content in the corresponding plurality of segments, wherein the plurality of markers are stored in an annotation file, wherein the plurality of markers comprises one of a graphic, a sound, or a keyword, and wherein each marker of the plurality of markers has an identifier to locate the segment correlated with the marker; and

searching, by the system, the media information according to the plurality of markers in an annotation file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the plurality of markers comprises receiving, by the system, the plurality of markers from the equipment of the web broadcast listener.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of markers are received via the user interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of markers further comprises a universal resource locator address.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising presenting, by the system, access to the media information in a visual medium that comprises a path with a plurality of partitions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the annotation file is separate from a file containing the media information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of markers are substantially undetectable by manual review.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of markers are substantially detectable by manual review.

9. A system, comprising:

a memory to store computer executable code; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein executing the computer executable code, causes the processor to perform operations comprising;

presenting media information via a web broadcast;

converting audio content in the media information to textual content;

generate a group of words from the textual content that are correlated to one or more passages in the textual content to enable a search of words from the group of words to cause a retrieval of the one or more passages in the textual content;

detecting logical divisions in video content in the media information;

presenting equipment of a web broadcast listener with a user interface for entering a plurality of markers;

receiving the plurality of markers that annotates the media information during the web broadcast based on one or more words searched from the group of words, wherein the plurality of markers are correlated with at least one of the logical divisions in the video content of the media information, wherein the plurality of markers are descriptive of content in the at least one logical division in the video content, wherein the plurality of markers are stored in an annotation file, wherein the plurality of markers comprises one of a graphic, a sound, or a keyword, and wherein each of the plurality of markers has information to locate at least one logical division correlated with the marker; and

searching the media information according to the plurality of markers of an annotation file.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein execution of the computer executable code causes the processor to perform operations comprising receiving the plurality of markers from the equipment of the web broadcast listener.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of markers are received via the user interface.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein one of the plurality of markers comprises a universal resource locator address.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein execution of the computer executable code causes the processor to perform operations comprising presenting access to the media information in a visual medium that comprises a path with a plurality of partitions.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the annotation file is separate from a file containing the media information.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of markers are substantially undetectable by manual review.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of markers are substantially detectable by manual review.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions, which when execute by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

converting audio content in media information to textual content;

generating a group of words from the textual content that are correlated to one or more passages in the textual content to enable a search of words from the group of words to cause a retrieval of the one or more passages in the textual content;

providing media information via a web broadcast;

presenting equipment of a web broadcast listener with a user interface for entering a plurality of markers;

receiving at least one marker of the plurality of markers during the web broadcast that annotates the media information based on one or more words searched from the group of words, wherein the at least one marker is correlated with at least one segment of the media information, wherein the plurality of markers are descriptive of content in the at least one segment, wherein the plurality of markers are stored in an annotation file, wherein the plurality of markers comprises one of a graphic, a sound, or a keyword, and wherein each marker of the at least one marker has information to locate the segment correlated with the marker; and

searching the at least one segment of the media information according to the at least one marker.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the annotation file is separate from a file containing the media information.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the plurality of markers are substantially undetectable by manual review.