Review of signature based content

• US 9,384,178 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2006
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Grant, Scott A., Nydam, Ronald, Gupta, Amit, Gupta, Pankaj
• Primary Examiner(s): Hillery, Nathan
• Application Number:
  US11/500,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,620 Days
• Field of Search: 715/205, 715/234, 715/235
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

Briefly, in accordance with at least one embodiment, a content creator/editor may have content reviewed by one or more reviewers. The content may include one or more signatures or characteristic values to correlate an annotation of the content made by one of the reviewers with respect to a flow of time of the content. The content creator/editor may generate a review file for the content and send the review file to the reviewers. The reviewers may provide annotations to the content with respect to the flow of time of the content, where the annotations may be correlated to the content via the signature or characteristic values of the content, and the reviewers may store the annotations independent of the content. The review process may be managed independent of a managing server where the content creator/editor may generate a review file and send the review file to the reviewers using a client content creation and editing software program on local machine of the content creator/editor. The reviewers may receive the review file, which may include content or the content may be streamed to a local machine of the reviewers using a client review program to manage the obtaining and reviewing of the content. The reviewers may generate annotations of the content independent of content and save them in a file that is sent back to the content creator/editor for aggregation of the annotations and selective viewing of the annotations of the content.

Claims

1. A method for having content reviewed, comprising:

using a processor to generate a signature comprising a set of signature values for content to be reviewed, wherein each of the set of signature values is related to a time based flow of the content and each signature value comprises a time value based on a timeline;

exporting the content to a review file;

sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content; and

receiving an annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers, wherein;

the content is annotated with an annotation;

the annotation is associated with a corresponding signature value, wherein the corresponding signature value is one of the set of signature values that corresponds to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to the time based flow of the content; and

the annotation is stored in the annotation file along with the corresponding signature value.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content from the review file with respect to the set of signatures.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at time locations of the content.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers if playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.

8. A method for reviewing content, comprising:

receiving a review file for content to be reviewed;

playing the content with respect to a signature comprising a set of signature values of the content, wherein each of the set of signature values is related to a time based flow of the content stored in the review file and each signature value comprises a time value based on a timeline;

annotating the content with an annotation;

using a processor to associate the annotation with respect to a corresponding signature value, wherein the corresponding signature value is one of the set of signature values that corresponds to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to the time based flow of the content;

storing the annotation in an annotation file along with the corresponding signature value; and

sending the annotation file to a user without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the annotation is stored as a metadata tag at a time location in a timeline that corresponds to the time of the annotation with respect to the content.

10. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said playing includes playing the content stored in the review file.

11. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said playing includes streaming the content from a location where the content is stored from a link to the content in the review file, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program on a local machine of a reviewer of the content.

12. A method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising compressing the annotation file prior to said sending.

13. A method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising encrypting the annotation file prior to said sending.

14. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein sending the annotation file to a user to manage the reviewing of the content comprises the user integrating the annotation file with a time based flow of the content.

15. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein sending the annotation file to a user to manage the reviewing of the content comprises the user observing the annotation if the matching signature occurs during playback of the content.

16. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said storing includes storing the annotations independent of the content.

17. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the signature includes least one of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the signature correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

18. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the signature includes at least a pair of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the pair correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

19. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result in having content reviewed by:

generating a signature comprising a set of signature values for content to be reviewed, wherein each of the set of signature values is related to a time based flow of the content and each signature value comprises a time value based on a timeline;

exporting the content to a review file;

sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content; and

receiving the annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers, wherein;

the content is annotated with an annotation;

the annotation is associated with a corresponding signature value, wherein the corresponding signature value is one of the set of signature values that corresponds to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to the time based flow of the content; and

the annotation is stored in an annotation file along with the corresponding signature value.

20. An article as claimed in claim 19, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content from the review file with respect to the set of signatures.

21. An article as claimed in claim 19, wherein said exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

22. An article as claimed in claim 19, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at time locations of the content.

23. An article as claimed in claim 19, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

24. An article as claimed in claim 19, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in having content reviewed by selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers if playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

25. An article as claimed in claim 19, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.

26. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result the reviewing of content by:

receiving a review file for content to be reviewed;

playing the content with respect to a signature comprising a set of signature values of the content, wherein each of the set of signature values is related to a time based flow of the content stored in the review file and each signature value comprises a time value based on a timeline;

annotating the content with an annotation;

associating the annotation with respect to a corresponding signature value, wherein the corresponding signature value is one of the set of signature values that corresponds to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to the time based flow of the content;

storing the annotation in an annotation file along with the corresponding signature value; and

sending the annotation file to a user without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content.

27. An article as claimed in claim 26, wherein the annotation is stored as a metadata tag at a time location in a timeline that corresponds to the time of the annotation with respect to the content.

28. An article as claimed in claim 26, wherein said playing includes playing the content stored in the review file.

29. An article as claimed in claim 26, wherein said playing includes streaming the content from a location where the content is stored from a link to the content in the review file, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program on a local machine of a reviewer of the content.

30. An article as claimed in claim 26, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in the reviewing of content by compressing the annotation file prior to said sending.

31. An article as claimed in claim 26, wherein the instructions, when executed, further result in the reviewing of content by encrypting the annotation file prior to said sending.

32. An article as claimed in claim 26, wherein sending the annotation file to a user to manage the reviewing of the content comprises the user integrating the annotation file with a time based flow of the content.

33. A method as claimed in claim 26, wherein sending the annotation file to a user to manage the reviewing of the content comprises the user observing the annotation if the matching signature occurs during playback of the content.

34. A method as claimed in claim 26, wherein said storing includes storing the annotations independent of the content.

35. A method as claimed in claim 26, wherein the signature includes at least one of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the signature correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

36. A method as claimed in claim 26, wherein the signature includes at least a pair of a time value, a time offset value, audio level, color value, brightness value, opacity value, intensity value, saturation value, a coordinate value, an object in media, and/or a metadata value, wherein the pair correlates an annotation of the content with a location in the content with respect to the time based flow of the content.

37. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory to couple to said processor, said processor to execute a program stored in said memory to result in having content reviewed by;

generating a signature comprising a set of signature values for content to be reviewed, wherein each of the set of signature values is related to a time based flow of the content and each signature value comprises a time value based on a timeline;

exporting the content to a review file;

sending the review file to one or more reviewers without requiring a server to manage the reviewing of the content; and

receiving the annotation file from at least one of the one or more reviewers, wherein;

the content is annotated with an annotation;

the annotation is associated with a corresponding signature value, wherein the corresponding signature value is one of the set of signature values that corresponds to the occurrence of the annotation with respect to the time based flow of the content; and

the annotation is stored in an annotation file along with the corresponding signature value.

38. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, wherein said exporting includes adding the content to the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content from the review file with respect to the set of signatures.

39. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, wherein said exporting includes adding a link to the location of the review file wherein the one or more reviewers may review the content with respect to the timeline by streaming the content via the link, wherein the streaming is managed by a client software program operated by the one or more reviewers.

40. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, wherein the annotation file includes annotations of the content stored as metadata tags at time locations the content.

41. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, wherein the annotation file does not include the content.

42. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, the program executed by the processor to further result in having content reviewed by selectively displaying the annotations from at least one of the one or more reviewers when playing the content without displaying annotations from a non-selected reviewer.

43. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, wherein the annotations include at least one of text information, graphical information, audio information, and/or video information.