Bookmarking segments of content

• US 8,799,300 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2011
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Saretto, Cesare J., Pope, Matthew J., Mulcahy, Kathleen P., Long, Geoffrey A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ehichioya, Fred I
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mobin, Hasanul
• Application Number:
  US13/024,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20120209841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/784 the detected or recognised objects being people
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A request from a user to bookmark a segment of content is received at a computing device. The segment of content is identified automatically and/or manually by the user. An expression of the user regarding a particular attribute of the segment of content is obtained, and a bookmark is generated. The bookmark includes both an identification of the segment of content and metadata that includes the expression of the user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user to bookmark a segment of content, the content comprising audio and video;

identifying the segment of content associated with the bookmark, the segment of content having both a beginning location and an ending location in the content;

obtaining, using an image capture device, an emotional response of the user, the emotional response of the user being automatically sensed and regarding a particular attribute of the segment of content;

generating a bookmark that includes both an identification of the segment of content and one or more tags that include the automatically sensed emotional response of the user; and

causing;

recommending additional content to the user by sending the bookmark to a recommendation service configured to identify the additional content based at least in part on an analysis of bookmarks that have been created in response to requests from the user, wherein recommendation of additional content is based on a particular emotional response of the user being identified more than a threshold number of times; and

splicing together multiple segments by sending the bookmark to a splicing service configured to analyze the bookmark and to splice multiple segments of content together to generate content collections based on bookmarks containing similar emotional responses of the user.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the content comprising audio and video is audio and video playback of a video game.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining characteristics of the segment of content; and

including, in the bookmark, the characteristics of the segment of content.

4. A method as recited in claim 3, wherein the characteristics of the segment of content include tags added by other users of other computing devices when creating other bookmarks associated with portions of the content that are included in the segment of content.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein identifying the segment of content comprises automatically determining the segment of content based at least in part on a particular part of the content being played back at a time that the request from the user is received.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

displaying an indication of the additional content.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user request to search through previously created bookmarks for a search term;

identifying one or more segments of content each having an associated bookmark that includes the search term; and

presenting the one or more segments of content having an associated bookmark that includes the search term.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the multiple segments of content in the collection.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising sharing the bookmark with one or more other users.

17. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the recommendation of additional content is based on a particular expression of other users.

10. One or more computer storage memory devices having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the one or more processors to:

receive a user request to bookmark content, the content comprising audio and video;

identify a segment of the content associated with the bookmark, the segment of content having both a beginning location in the content and an ending location in the content;

obtain, using an image capture device, an emotional response of the user regarding an attribute of the segment of content, the emotional response being automatically sensed;

generate a bookmark that includes both an identification of the segment of content and the automatically sensed emotional response of the user; and

cause;

recommend additional content to the user by sending the bookmark to a recommendation service configured to identify the additional content based at least in part on an analysis of bookmarks that have been created in response to requests from the user, recommendation of additional content being based on a particular emotional response of the user being identified more than a threshold number of times; and

splice together multiple segments by sending the bookmark to a splicing service configured to analyze the bookmark and to splice multiple segments of content together to generate content collections based on bookmarks containing similar emotional responses of the user.

11. One or more computer storage memory devices as recited in claim 10, wherein the content comprising audio and video is audio and video playback of a video game.

12. One or more computer storage memory devices as recited in claim 10, wherein the multiple instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

obtain characteristics of the segment of content; and

include, in the bookmark, the characteristics of the segment of content.

13. One or more computer storage memory devices as recited in claim 12, wherein the characteristics of the segment of content include tags added by other users of other computing devices when creating other bookmarks associated with portions of the content that are included in the segment of content.

14. One or more computer storage memory devices as recited in claim 10, wherein the multiple instructions further cause the one or more processors to share the bookmark with one or more other users.

15. One or more computer storage memory devices as recited in claim 10, further comprising the user explicitly entering an expression regarding a particular attribute of the segment of content.

16. A system comprising:

a client device having memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request from a user to bookmark a segment of audio and video content;

identifying the segment of the audio and video content associated with the bookmark, the segment of content having both a beginning location and an ending location in the content, the segment of the audio and video content being less than the entire audio and video content;

obtaining, using an image capture device at the client device, an emotional response of the user, the emotional response being automatically sensed and regarding a particular attribute of the segment;

generating a bookmark that includes an identification of the segment, one or more tags that include the emotional response of the user, and one or more tags that include characteristics of the segment, the characteristics of the segment including tags added by multiple additional users of other computing devices when creating other bookmarks associated with portions of the audio and video content that are included in the segment;

recommending additional content to the user by sending the bookmark to a recommendation service configured to identify the additional content based at least in part on an analysis of bookmarks that have been created in response to requests from the user, wherein recommendation of additional content is based on a particular emotional response of the user being identified more than a threshold number of times; and

splicing together multiple segments by sending the bookmark to a splicing service configured to analyze the bookmark and to splice multiple segments of content together to generate content collections based on bookmarks containing similar emotional responses of the user.