Media variations browser

• US 7,769,832 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2006
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Glatzer, Asta L., Wong, Curtis G., Drucker, Steven M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Philip C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): AILES, BENJAMIN A
• Application Number:
  US11/539,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20070083818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,393 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-220, 715/513, 715744-745, 715/760
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A system and method facilitating media browsing is provided. The invention includes a browsing component and a media display system that provides a focus media and related media. The focus media and the related media are associated based, at least in part, upon metadata. The invention further provides for an association identifier that identifies related media based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the focus media and the related media. The association identifier can further cluster the related media based upon metadata associated with the related media.

Claims

1. A media browsing system embodied on a computer memory, comprising:

a media display component that displays a focus media and at least one cluster of related media, the quantity of clusters of related media being based, at least in part, upon a user specified quantity of clusters; and

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a browsing component coupled to the media display component, the browsing component providing the focus media and the at least one cluster of related media to the media display component.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the browsing component provides the focus media and the at least one cluster of related media to the media display component based at least in part, upon metadata associated with the focus media and the at least one cluster of related media.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the browsing component further clusters the related media based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the related media.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the browsing component further modifies the focus media provided to the media display component based, at least in part, upon a user'"'"'s selection of a related media within a cluster of related media.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the browsing component further modifies the clustered related media based, at least in part, upon the modified focus media.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the browsing component further provides information associated with the modified focus media and modified clusters of related media.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a scrolling component that facilitates a user'"'"'s browsing of media.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user selection component that provides information associated with a user preference to the browsing component.

9. The system of claim 8, the user preference being further related to at least one of a quantity of clusters of related media and a quantity of related media in a cluster.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a media information store that stores information associated with media, the information including metadata associated with media.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a historical component that stores information associated with a user'"'"'s historical exploration of media.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a seed component that provides a plurality of distinctive focus media.

13. The browsing system of claim 1, wherein the browsing component includes an association identifier that employs a probabilistic methodology in identifying media related to the focus media.

14. A method for providing media related to focus media, comprising:

generating one or more clusters of media related to a focus media via a computer executable component, the quantity of the clusters of related media being based at least upon a user preference that is inputted to the computer executable component via a user input device; and

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displaying the one or more clusters of media and the focus media on a media display.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising identifying media related to the focus media based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the focus media and metadata associated with the related media.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising at least one of:

utilizing an artificial intelligence technique to generate the one or more clusters of related media; and

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utilizing an artificial intelligence technique to identify the related media.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the generating further includes generating the one or more clusters of related media based at least upon media within a cluster having at least one common metadata.

18. A media browsing system, comprising:

one or more processors;

a computer memory;

a computer readable media that comprises a plurality of computer-executable components, the plurality of computer-executable components comprising;

a focus media component that provides a focus media and one or more clusters of related media, the quantity of the clusters of related media being based at least upon a user selection;

a media display component that presents the focus media and the one or more clusters of related media on a display.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the computer-executable components further comprise an association identifier that identifies media related to the focus media based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the focus media and metadata associated with the related media.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the association identifier is to further cluster the related media based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the related media.