Method and system to enable dynamic modification of metadata in content

• US 7,716,248 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2006
• Issued: 05/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: YUMI
• Original Assignee: YUME Incorporated (Nexxen International Ltd.)
• Inventors: Dandekar, Yogesh, Shankar, Murali, Kaushik, Vijay, Kadambi, Jayant, Sankaran, Ayyappan
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US11/433,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20060271998A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,457 Days
• Field of Search: 707/10, 707/100, 707/101, 707/102, 707/793, 725/100, 725/135, 703/11, 703/24, 703/26, 703/27, 382/100, 715/716
• US Class Current: 707/793
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8402 involving a version number, e.g. version number of EPG data arrangements for version control in computers G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8541 involving branching, e.g. to different story endings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

A method to enable dynamic modification of metadata in a content, the method comprising of constructing the content (305, 505) received from a plurality of content providers, determining a set of rules based on a criterion (310, 405) and sending the content and the set of rules (315, 410, 510) separately. At a receiver end, the set of rules are applied to the content (610, 710) to obtain a resulting content and the resulting content is displayed (615, 715) on a display unit.

Claims

1. A system for dynamic modification of a content at a receiver end, the system comprising:

a content receiver interface at the transmitter end for receiving a first content;

a first processor at the transmitter end for determining a first set of rules based on a first criterion;

a transmission interface at the transmitter end separately transmits to the receiver end the first content and the first set of rules;

a second processor at the receiver end authors the content by applying the first set of rules to the first content;

the first processor at the transmitter end performs one of constructing a second content and determining a second set of rules base on a second criterion;

the transmission interface at the transmitter end transmits to the receiver end one of the second content and the second set of rules based on the second criterion;

the second processor at the receiver end dynamically modifies the content by one of applying the first set of rules to the second content and applying the second set of rules to the first content.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprises a storage at the transmitter end to store the content and the first set of rules.

3. A system for dynamic modification of metadata in a content at a receiver end, the system comprising:

a content receiver interface at a transmitter end receives a first content;

a first processor at the transmitter end determines a first set of rules based on a first criterion;

a transmission interface at the transmitter end separately transmits to the receiver end the first content and the first set of rules;

a second processor at the receiver end authors metadata of the content by applying the first set of rules to the first content;

the first processor at the transmitter end performs one of constructing a second content and determining a second set of rules base on a second criterion;

the transmission interface at the transmitter end transmits to the receiver end one of the second content and the second set of rules based on the second criterion;

the second processor at the receiver end dynamically modifies metadata of the content by one of applying the first set of rules to the second content and applying the second set of rules to the first content.

4. The system of claim 3 further comprising a storage to store the content and the first set of rules.

5. The system of claim 3 further comprising a display unit to display the content.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the display unit comprises a television set, a DVD player, and a personal computer.