System and method thereof for dynamically associating a link to an information resource with a multimedia content displayed in a web-page

• US 9,235,557 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2012
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cortica Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Cortica Ltd.
• Inventors: Raichelgauz, Igal, Odinaev, Karina, Zeevi, Yehoshua Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hill, Stanley K
• Application Number:
  US13/685,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080868A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/103 Transmitter-side switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/66 for using the result on distributors' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/466 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies services using the results of monitoring in broadcast systems H04H60/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method for associating at least a link to an information resource with a multimedia content element. The method comprises identifying at least one multimedia content element in a web-page, wherein a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web-page is received from any one of a user device and a web server hosting the web-page; generating a signature for at least a portion of the at least one identified multimedia content element; determining at least a link to the at least a portion of the content respective of the generated signature; and providing the web-page with the at least a link respective of the signature of the at least a portion of the at least one multimedia content element to the user device.

Claims

1. A method for associating at least one link to an information resource with a multimedia content element, comprising:

identifying at least one multimedia content element in a web-page, wherein a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web-page is received from any one of a user device and a web server hosting the web-page displayed over the user device;

generating, by a signature generator system, a signature for at least a portion of the at least one identified multimedia content element, the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the multimedia content element and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the multimedia content element, each computational core of the plurality of computational cores having properties that are at least partly statistically independent of other of the computational cores, wherein the properties of each core are set independently of each other core;

determining at least one link to a source of information respective of the generated signature; and

providing the web-page displayed over the user device with the at least one link to the source of information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein content addressed by the at least one link is displayed when a gesture of a user is detected on the user device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user gesture is any one of:

a scroll on the at least one multimedia content element, a click on the at least one multimedia content element, a response to the at least one multimedia content element.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the context of the multimedia content element respective of the generated signature; and

determining the at least one link based on the context of the multimedia content element respective of the generated signature.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia content element is at least one of:

an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, images of signals, combinations thereof, and portions thereof.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one link is added to the multimedia content element as an overlay object.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute the method according to claim 1.

8. A system for associating at least one link to an information resource with a multimedia content element from at least one web-page containing at least one multimedia content element, comprising:

an interface to a network for receiving the at least one web-page containing at least one multimedia content element, wherein a uniform resource locator (URL) of the at least one web-page is received from any one of a user device and a web server hosting the at least one web-page displayed over the user device;

a signature generator system for generating signatures for the at least one multimedia content element or a portion thereof;

a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the multimedia content element and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the multimedia content element, each computational core of the plurality of computational cores having properties that are at least partly statistically independent of other of the computational cores, wherein the properties of each core are set independently of each other core;

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processor cause the system to;

identify the at least one multimedia content element in the at least one web-page;

generate a signature for at least a portion of the at least one identified multimedia content element;

determine at least one link to a source of information respective of the generated signature; and

provide the at least one web-page displayed over the user device with the at least one link to the source of information.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the system is further configured to display content addressed by the provided at least one link upon detection of a user'"'"'s gesture.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the user gesture is any one of:

a scroll on the at least one multimedia content, a press on the at least one multimedia content or a portion thereof, and a response to the at least one multimedia content.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the system is further configured to:

cluster signatures generated for each of the at least one multimedia content element; and

search for at least one link of an information resource in the database matching the cluster of signatures.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one multimedia content element is at least one of:

an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, and images of signals.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine a context of the at least one multimedia content element respective of the signature.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine the context of the multimedia content element respective of the generated signature; and

determine the at least one link based on the context of the at least one multimedia content element respective of the generated signature.