Conversion of webcast to online course and vice versa

• US 8,615,547 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Issued: 12/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerifi Acquisitions LLC
• Original Assignee: Thomson Reuters (Tax & Accounting) Services Inc. (The Woodbridge Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Englund, Shawn, Steenbergen, Jeffrey M., Boden, Derrick A., Madira, Venkata R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thai
• Application Number:
  US11/452,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20070294424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,750 Days
• Field of Search: 709/231, 709/232, 709/204, 709201-203, 715/730, 715/731
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving by a computing device, a stream of audiovisual content, the audiovisual content including at least one quiz, poll, and/or question, are described herein. In various embodiments, the computing device may also determine one or more events in the audiovisual content and determine a set of audiovisual units from the audiovisual content, the set of audiovisual units corresponding at least in part to the determined one or more events. Further, in some embodiments, the computing device may remove from the determined set of audiovisual units one or more audiovisual units that correspond to at least a portion of the at least one quiz, poll, and/or question. In alternate embodiments, the process may be reversed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a stream of audiovisual content;

determining, by the computing device, one or more events in the stream of audiovisual content while receiving said stream;

determining, by the computing device, based at least partially on said one or more events, a set of audiovisual units from the stream of audiovisual content;

determining, that one audiovisual unit of the set of audiovisual units includes a quiz, poll, or question;

in response to determining that one audiovisual unit of the set of audiovisual units includes a quiz, poll, or question, removing from the determined set of audiovisual units, by the computing device, audio and video feeds of the one audiovisual unit including the quiz, poll, or question while retaining a textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question; and

rendering, by the computing device, the set of audiovisual units as at least a part of an online course, including inputting the set of audiovisual units to a graphic user interface shell,

wherein the online course prevents a user from progressing from a first audiovisual unit to a second audiovisual unit the user has passed the quiz of the one audiovisual unit.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the stream of audiovisual content comprises a live web cast and further includes a plurality of slides.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more determined events include at least one of a slide transition, a start of a time period for a poll, and an end of the time period for the poll and each of the audiovisual units corresponds to a time period during which a slide of the plurality of slides is displayed or a time period during which a poll is given.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein viewers of the live webcast participate in creating the textual representation by providing answers to a presenter that are subsequently used by the presenter to create the textual representation.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising facilitating a presenter in creating the stream of audiovisual content through a user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the online course is used to certify a user or meet professional education or certification requirements.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the removed audio feed corresponds to a period of dead air.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the removing comprises deleting the audio and video feeds of the at least one audiovisual unit or storing the audio and visual feeds of the at least one audiovisual unit along with a flag which indicates that the audio and video feeds are not to be included in an online course.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question is included in the at least one audio visual unit or is included in a web page delivered during a live webcast concurrently with the at least one audiovisual unit.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a computing engine operated by the processor and configured to;

receive a stream of audiovisual content,

determine one or more events in the stream of audiovisual content while receiving said stream,

determine, based at least partially on said one or more events, a set of audiovisual units from the stream of audiovisual content,

determine that one audiovisual unit of the set of audiovisual units includes a quiz, poll, or question;

in response to determining that one audiovisual unit of the set of audiovisual units includes a quiz, poll, or question, remove from the determined set of audiovisual units audio and video feeds of the one audiovisual unit including the quiz, poll, or question while retaining a textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question; and

render the set of audiovisual unit as at least a part of an online course, including inputting the set of audiovisual unit to a graphic user interface shell,

wherein the online course prevents a user from progressing from a first audiovisual unit to a second audiovisual unit until the user has passed the quiz of the one audiovisual unit.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the stream of audiovisual content comprises a live web cast and further includes a plurality of slides.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the computing engine is further configured to facilitate a presenter in creating the stream of audiovisual content through a user interface.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the removing comprises deleting the audio and video feeds of the at least one audiovisual unit or storing the audio and visual feeds of the at least one audiovisual unit along with a flag which indicates that the audio and video feeds are not to be included in an online course.

14. An article of manufacture comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium; and

a plurality of programming instructions configured to program an apparatus to;

receive a stream of audiovisual content, the audiovisual content including at least one quiz, poll, or question,

determine one or more events in the stream of audiovisual content while receiving said stream,

determine a set of audiovisual units from the stream of audiovisual content, the set of audiovisual units corresponding at least in part to the determined one or more events, wherein at least one audiovisual unit of the set of audiovisual units includes audio and video feeds and an associated textual representation of the at least one quiz, poll, or question, and

remove from the determined set of audiovisual units at least the audio and video feeds of the at least one audiovisual unit while retaining the associated textual representation of the at least one quiz, poll, or question, wherein the removing comprises storing the audio and visual feeds of the at least one audiovisual unit along with a flag which indicates that the audio and video feeds are not to be included in an online course.

15. The article of claim 14, wherein the stream of audiovisual content comprises a live web cast and further includes a plurality of slides.

16. The article of claim 14, wherein the programming instructions are further configured to facilitate a presenter in creating the stream of audiovisual content through a user interface.

17. The article of claim 14, wherein the programming instructions are further configured to render the audiovisual units as at least a part of an online course, including inputting the audiovisual units to a graphic user interface shell.

18. A method comprising:

retrieving from an online course, by a computing device, a set of audiovisual units and related data, the set of audiovisual units including audio and video feeds and the related data including at least one textual representation of a quiz, poll, or question, the set of audiovisual units and the related data being associated with a previous live webcast;

determining, by the computing device, a time period for the at least one textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question, the time period being determined based on a previous duration of a display of the at least one textual representation in the live webcast;

sequencing the set of audiovisual units and the at least one textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question based on an order of the audiovisual units and the related data within the online course to create a rebroadcast of the live webcast; and

at a designated time, streaming the set of audio visual units and the related data in the rebroadcast of the live webcast, the rebroadcast including a display of the at least one textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question lasting the determined time period.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising sequencing the set of audiovisual units and the at least one textual representation of the quiz, poll, or question with one or more slides of the related data corresponding to ones of the set of audiovisual units, the rebroadcast displaying one of the slides and its corresponding audiovisual unit simultaneously.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the rebroadcast is used to certify a user or meet professional education or certification requirements.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein playback controls of recipients of the rebroadcast are inactivated during the rebroadcast.