Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for adaptive multimedia content indexing
First Claim
1. A method for adaptive indexing of multimedia content, the method comprising:
- identifying a keyword associated with a first feature and a second feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the first feature being of a first media type and the second feature being of a second media type, and the first media type being associated with a first weight, and the second media type being associated with a second weight;
determining a relevance for the keyword by calculating a relevance value using said first weight and said second weight;
updating the first weight associated with the first media type based on a search result selected by a user from a set of search results that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user to produce an updated first weight, wherein the selected search result indicates a multimedia item having a feature being of the first media type and another feature being of the second media type, each of the features being associated with the keyword;
updating the second weight based on a particular set of content items being identified by the selected search result to produce an updated second weight; and
updating the relevance of the keyword by calculating a relevance value using the updated first weight and the updated second weight.
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Abstract
This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for adaptive indexing of multimedia content. In some embodiments, the method includes: identifying a keyword associated with a feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the keyword being associated with a media type, and the media type being associated with a weight; determining a relevance for the keyword using the weight associated with the media type associated with the keyword; updating the weight associated with the media type based on a particular set of content items, wherein each content item included in the particular set was added to the particular set of content items because the content item was selected by a user from a set of content items that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user, thereby producing an updated weight; and updating the relevance of the keyword using the updated weight.
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27 Claims
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1. A method for adaptive indexing of multimedia content, the method comprising:
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identifying a keyword associated with a first feature and a second feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the first feature being of a first media type and the second feature being of a second media type, and the first media type being associated with a first weight, and the second media type being associated with a second weight; determining a relevance for the keyword by calculating a relevance value using said first weight and said second weight; updating the first weight associated with the first media type based on a search result selected by a user from a set of search results that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user to produce an updated first weight, wherein the selected search result indicates a multimedia item having a feature being of the first media type and another feature being of the second media type, each of the features being associated with the keyword; updating the second weight based on a particular set of content items being identified by the selected search result to produce an updated second weight; and updating the relevance of the keyword by calculating a relevance value using the updated first weight and the updated second weight. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for adaptive indexing of multimedia content, the comprising:
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a data storage system; and a data processing system coupled to the data storage system, the data processing system being configured to; identify a keyword associated with a first feature and a second feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the first feature being of a first media type and the second feature being of a second media type, and the first media type being associated with a first weight, and the second media type being associated with a second weight; determine a relevance for the keyword by calculating a relevance value using the first weight and the second weight; update the first weight associated with the first media type based on a search result selected by a user from a set of search results that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user to produce an updated first weight, wherein the selected search result indicates a multimedia item having a feature being of the first media type and another feature being of the second media type, each the features being associated with the keyword; updating the second weight based on a particular set of content items being identified by the selected search result to produce an updated second weight; and update the relevance of the keyword by calculating a relevance value using the updated first weight and the updated second weight. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer instructions for adaptive indexing of multimedia content, the computer instructions comprising:
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instructions for identifying a keyword associated with a first feature and a second feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the feature being of a first media type and the second feature being of a second media type, and the first media type being associated with a first weight and the second media type associated with a second weight; instructions for determining a relevance for the keyword by calculating a relevance value using said first weight and said second weight; instructions for updating the first weight associated with the first media type based on a search result selected by a user from a set of search results that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user to produce an updated first weight, wherein the selected search result indicates a multimedia item having a feature being of the first media type and another feature being of the second media type, each of the features being associated with the keyword; instructions for updating the second weight based on a particular set of content items being identified by the selected search result to produce an updated second weight; and
instructions for updating the relevance of the keyword using the updated first weight, and the updated second weight. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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