Dynamic hyperlinking approach

• US 9,344,763 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CEVA Technologies, Inc. (CEVA Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories Incorporated (CEVA Incorporated)
• Inventors: Stanchfield, Scott Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunez, Jordany
• Application Number:
  US14/029,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20140020028A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 715/723, 715/719, 715/810
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/743 a collection of video files or sequences
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection

Abstract

A method of returning target scenes from a user link request is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a user link request on a user interface; comparing the received user link request to a plurality of entries in a lookup table; for each entry in the plurality of entries in the lookup table that matches the received user link request, identifying a target scene that corresponds to the matched entry in the lookup table; determining a closest one of the target scenes if multiple entries in the lookup table match the user link request; and transitioning to the closest target scene.

Claims

1. A method of returning target scenes associated with a plurality of video programs, said method comprising the steps of:

displaying a plurality of icons on a user interface, wherein each icon represents a video program;

receiving a user link request for a video program by selecting an icon on the user interface;

comparing said received user link request for said selected video program to a plurality of entries of said plurality of video programs in a dynamic hierarchical lookup table;

for each entry in the plurality of entries of said plurality of video programs in the dynamic lookup table that matches the received user link request for said selected video program, identifying a target scene that corresponds to the matched entry of said selected video program in the dynamic hierarchical lookup table;

determining a closest one of the target scenes if multiple entries and multiple locations of said selected video program in the dynamic hierarchical lookup table match the user link request for said selected video program;

transitioning to the closest target scene; and

displaying said selected video program on said user interface,

wherein the selected video program and the video program represented by the user link request have at least one of similar story lines, similar genre and common actors.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a scene corresponds to a node, said scene being defined by a path to the node.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user link request occurs at a node.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the closest target scene is determined by comparing a path of the node corresponding to the user link request with a path of each of the nodes corresponding to the target scenes.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

selecting a target scene having the path with a longest common prefix with the path of the node corresponding to the user link request.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein if multiple target scenes have a same length common prefix, then

selecting the target scene having a fewest number of prefixes beyond the common prefix.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein if multiple target scenes have a same number of prefixes beyond the common prefix, then

selecting one of the multiple target scenes.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a user interface corresponds to a home entertainment system.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user link request is received via a user input device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the user input device is a free space pointing device.