Local timeline editing for online content editing

• US 9,711,178 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2012
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WeVideo Incorporated
• Original Assignee: WeVideo Incorporated
• Inventors: Svendsen, Jostein, Rustberggaard, Bjrn
• Primary Examiner(s): Bhatia, Ajay
• Assistant Examiner(s): KLICOS, NICHOLAS GEORGE
• Application Number:
  US13/433,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20120254752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,938 Days
• Field of Search: 715716, 715723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/222 Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end provisioning of proxy services in data packet switching networks H04L67/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23424 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25435 involving characteristics of content or additional data, e.g. video resolution or the amount of advertising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

Local timeline editing for online content editing is disclosed. Various systems and methods described herein provide for online content editing, wherein user-created content is created or modified at an online content editor server in accordance with a timeline (associated with the user-created content) that is modified at a remote content editor client and subsequently received by the online content editor server. In a specific implementation, the creation and modification operations performed on the user-created content are performed at the online content editor server in accordance with the timeline received from the remote content editor client. The timeline can comprise information defining content within the user-created content, and define a temporal property of the content within the user-created content. The remote content editor client can be a thin client instance utilizing limited resources during operation and requiring very limited network bandwidth when transferred to the client.

Claims

1. A system for low bandwidth consumption online content editing, the system comprising:

a server-side online content timeline editing engine;

a content layer rendering engine coupled to the server-side online content timeline editing engine;

a content library engine coupled to the content layer rendering engine;

a content library datastore coupled to the content library engine, wherein the content library datastore comprises content;

wherein, in operation;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine creates a first content timeline for multi-layered user-created content, wherein the first content timeline comprises information defining a first layer of the multi-layered user-created content, information defining content within the first layer, and information defining a temporal property of the content within the first layer;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine transmits the first content timeline to a client;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine receives a second content timeline from the client, wherein the second content timeline is a modified version of the first content timeline;

the content library engine provides the content from the content library datastore to the content layer rendering engine;

the content layer rendering engine renders the first layer of the multi-layered user-created content in accordance with the second content timeline.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a server-side online content timeline datastore coupled to the server-side online content timeline editing engine;

wherein, in operation;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine stores the first content timeline at the server-side online content timeline datastore;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine replaces the first content timeline on the server-side online content timeline datastore with the second content timeline.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising the server-side online content timeline datastore coupled to the server-side online content timeline editing engine;

wherein, in operation;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine stores the first content timeline at the server-side online content timeline datastore;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine modifies the first content timeline on the server-side online content timeline datastore in accordance with the second content timeline.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the temporal property of the content is selected from a group consisting of a temporal position of the content in the first layer and a duration of the content in the first layer.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the content library engine is further coupled to the server-side online content timeline editing engine;

wherein, in operation;

the content library engine informs the server-side online content timeline editing engine of available content in the content library datastore;

the server-side online content timeline editing engine transmits a list of the available content to the client.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein, in operation:

the server-side online content timeline editing engine receives a connection from the client, wherein the first content timeline is transmitted to the client through the connection, and wherein the second content timeline is received from the client through the connection.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the connection is received from a client-side online content timeline editing engine at the client.

8. A system for low bandwidth consumption online content editing, the system comprising:

a processor;

a client-side online content timeline editing engine;

a client-side online content timeline datastore coupled to the client-side online content timeline editing engine;

wherein, in operation;

the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to receive a first content timeline from an online content timeline editing engine at a server, wherein multi-layered user-created content is remotely created or modified at the server, and wherein the first content timeline comprises information defining a first layer of the multi-layered user-created content, information defining content within the first layer, and information defining a temporal property of content within the first layer;

the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to store the first content timeline to the client-side online content timeline datastore;

the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to modify the first content timeline of the multi-layered user-created content;

the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to transmit a modified version of the first content timeline to a server-side online content timeline editing engine.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to modify the first content timeline on the client-side online content timeline datastore before transmitting the modified version to the server-side online content timeline editing engine.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to modify the information in the first content timeline.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein, in operation:

the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to receive a list of available content from the server-side online content timeline editing engine, wherein the client-side online content timeline editing engine causes the processor to utilize an item from the list when modifying the first content timeline.

12. A method for low bandwidth consumption online content editing, the method comprising:

creating a first content timeline for multi-layered user-created content, wherein the first content timeline comprises information defining a first layer of the multi-layered user-created content, information defining content within the first layer, and information defining a temporal property of content within the first layer;

transmitting the first content timeline to a client;

receiving a second content timeline from the client, wherein the second content timeline is a modified version of the first content timeline;

rendering the first layer of the multi-layered user-created content in accordance with the second content timeline.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

storing the first content timeline at a server-side online content timeline datastore;

replacing the first content timeline on the server-side online content timeline datastore with the second content timeline.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

storing the first content timeline at a server-side online content timeline datastore;

modifying the first content timeline on the server-side online content timeline datastore in accordance with the second content timeline.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the temporal property of the content is selected from a group consisting of a temporal position of the content in the first layer and a duration of the content in the first layer.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

informing a server-side online content timeline editing engine of available content in a content library datastore;

transmitting a list of the available content to the client.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a connection from the client, wherein the first content timeline is transmitted to the client through the connection, and wherein the second content timeline is received from the client through the connection.

18. A method for low bandwidth consumption online content editing, the method comprising:

receiving a first content timeline for multi-layered user-created content, wherein the first content timeline comprises information defining a first layer of the multi-layered user-created content, information defining content within the first layer, and information defining a temporal property of content within the first layer;

storing the first content timeline to a client-side online content timeline datastore;

modifying the first content timeline of multi-layered user-created content;

transmitting a modified version of the first content timeline to a server-side online content timeline editing engine.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising modifying the first content timeline on the client-side online content timeline datastore before transmitting the modified version to the server-side online content timeline editing engine.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising receiving a list of available content from the server-side online content timeline editing engine, wherein an item from the list is utilized when modifying the first content timeline.