Sharing video

• US 9,684,728 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2007
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Lynn, Owen, Thoms, Dale, Humphrey, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): BROMELL, ALEXANDRIA Y
• Application Number:
  US11/842,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20070282818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,591 Days
• Field of Search: 707778, 707707, 707914, 707711, 707741, 707709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64784 Data processing by the network data processing in packet switching systems H04L12/56; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; intermediate storage or scheduling H04L49/90; provisioning of proxy services in data packet switching networks H04L67/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.

Claims

1. A system for sharing indexed video, comprising:

at least one computer processor;

a processing module executable on the at least one computer processor to;

gather video content from a network,

identify plural different versions of a same video content; and

select one of the plural different versions for indexing to generate an index based on at least one criterion, wherein the at least one criterion is selected from the group consisting of a criterion specifying that a particular format of video content is to be selected from plural candidate formats, and a criterion specifying that a particular bit rate of video content is to be selected from plural candidate bit rates;

a hosting service to communicate with the processing module, wherein the hosting service is configured to share searchable video for customized viewing at a customer web site; and

a browse web page having category links arranged in a subject hierarchy, with leaf nodes of the hierarchy for performing pre-defined searches against the index.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the customer web site is configured to integrate the video shared by the hosting service into the customer web site using at least one search and retrieval metaphor.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the customer web site comprises a web portal.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the hosting service is operated by a first entity and the customer web site is operated by a second entity.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the hosting service is located at a separate location apart from the customer web site.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a search web page having a search form that includes one or more fields used to express a query.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the search web page is served by a portal web server associated with the customer web site.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the hosting service includes a logging facility configured to generate the index of the gathered video content using the selected version of the same video content.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a template mechanism configured to inject video content retrieved by searches against the index into templates that each specifies a corresponding graphical look-and-feel of the retrieved video content.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the hosting service is to, in response to a received query, perform a search against the index to retrieve a search result containing a portion of the gathered video content.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the different versions differ by at least one of a format and a bit rate of video content.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing module is executable to further:

determine that a video file of the gathered video content is a duplicate of a previously captured video file; and

avoid re-indexing the duplicate video file in the index.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein an un-selected one of the plural different versions is not indexed in the index.

14. A method comprising:

performing, by a system having a computer processor, a process, the process comprising;

gathering video content from a network,

identifying plural different versions of a same video content; and

selecting one of the plural different versions for indexing to generate an index based on at least one criterion, wherein the at least one criterion is selected from the group consisting of a criterion specifying that a particular format of video content is to be selected from plural candidate formats, and a criterion specifying that a particular bit rate of video content is to be selected from plural candidate bit rates;

sharing, by a sharing service in communication with the process, searchable video for customized viewing at a customer web site; and

providing a browse web page having category links arranged in a subject hierarchy.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the different versions differ by at least one of a format and a bit rate of video content.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the selecting of one of the plural different versions is based on the at least one criterion that seeks to balance a goal of having higher quality video data with a goal of reduced computational costs.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein an un-selected one of the plural different versions is not indexed in the index.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the process further comprises:

determining that a video file of the gathered video content is a duplicate of a previously captured video file; and

avoiding re-indexing the duplicate video file in the index.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the browse web pages contains information to perform searches against the index.