Providing additional information related to earmarks
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1. In a portable media device, a method comprising:
- determining that a content consumer has created a mark during a playback of an instance of media, the mark being separate from the instance of media and including an identifier for the instance of media and a time reference that indicates a point during the playback of the instance of media at which the mark was created;
ascertaining a sequence of the instance of media that corresponds to the time reference and an identifier for the sequence, the instance of media including multiple sequences;
retrieving, using the identifier for the sequence, metadata that is particular to the sequence, the metadata including one or more keywords that are particular to at least one of a visual aspect or an audible aspect of content included in the sequence;
using the retrieved metadata to obtain additional information related to the sequence, said using including communicating the one or more keywords to an external search engine; and
causing the additional information to be output via the portable media device, said causing including causing at least a portion of a search result received from the search engine to be output via the portable device.
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Abstract
Metadata related to a media object may be used to obtain additional information about a mark created by a user in the media object. A media object being played by a user may be marked by creating a mark object, the mark object being used to determine the metadata to be used to obtain additional information related to the mark.
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1. In a portable media device, a method comprising:
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determining that a content consumer has created a mark during a playback of an instance of media, the mark being separate from the instance of media and including an identifier for the instance of media and a time reference that indicates a point during the playback of the instance of media at which the mark was created; ascertaining a sequence of the instance of media that corresponds to the time reference and an identifier for the sequence, the instance of media including multiple sequences; retrieving, using the identifier for the sequence, metadata that is particular to the sequence, the metadata including one or more keywords that are particular to at least one of a visual aspect or an audible aspect of content included in the sequence; using the retrieved metadata to obtain additional information related to the sequence, said using including communicating the one or more keywords to an external search engine; and causing the additional information to be output via the portable media device, said causing including causing at least a portion of a search result received from the search engine to be output via the portable device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer readable hardware storage medium embodying computer executable instructions that are executable to implement a method comprising:
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determining that a content consumer has created a mark during a playback of an instance of media that includes multiple sequences, the mark being separate from the instance of media and including a reference to a specific sequence of the multiple sequences; retrieving, using the reference to the specific sequence, metadata that is particular to the specific sequence, the metadata including one or more keywords that are particular to at least one of a visual aspect or an audible aspect of content included in the specific sequence; reviewing the metadata to determine whether additional information that is particular to the specific sequence is stored in a local memory; if the additional information is stored locally, retrieving the additional information from the local memory; if the additional information is not stored locally, retrieving the additional information from an outside source; and displaying to the content consumer the additional information. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A portable media device comprising:
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one or more processors; and a hardware memory storing computer executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising; determining that a content consumer has created a mark during a playback of an instance of media, the mark being separate from the instance of media and including an identifier for the instance of media and a time reference that indicates a point during the playback of the instance of media at which the mark was created; ascertaining a sequence of the instance of media that corresponds to the time reference and an identifier for the sequence, the instance of media including multiple different sequences; relating the identifier for the sequence to metadata for the sequence, the metadata including one or more keywords that are particular to at least one of a visual aspect or an audible aspect of content included in the specific sequence; retrieving the metadata; reviewing to determine whether additional information that is specific to the sequence is stored in a local memory; if the additional information is stored locally, retrieving the additional information from the local memory; if the additional information is not stored locally, retrieving the additional information from an outside source; and causing the additional information to be displayed via the portable media device. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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