Method and system for generating and presenting mobile content summarization

• US 8,171,410 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Issued: 05/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telcordia Technologies Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: Telcordia Technologies Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Falchuk, Benjamin W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo, Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): BECKER, SHASHI KAMALA
• Application Number:
  US12/474,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20090300498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 715/719, 715/704, 715/723
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

This invention involves a system and method to construct a visual representation of multidimensional data that works especially well for video. The system comprises an application on a mobile device having a screen, an assignment module assigning the media segments to the screen, a rendering module rendering the assigned media segments on the screen, a playback module playing the assigned media segments, a catalog module representing media metadata about the mobile content, a summarization module stewarding the media metadata, and a remote server storing the mobile content and the media metadata. The application retrieves the mobile content from the remote server and accesses the assignment, the rendering, the playback, the catalog, and the summarization modules. The system also comprises a method to log and analyze the browsing interactions of one or more users, and present a view of the media that reflects what is interesting to the user.

Claims

1. A system for generating and presenting summarization of mobile content having a plurality of media segments, comprising:

an application on a mobile device having a screen;

an assignment module assigning one or more of said media segments to one or more parts of said screen wherein implicit and explicit interests of a user are logged, shared, aggregated, and used by the assignment module as a basis for assigning one or more of said media segments to one or more parts of said screen;

a rendering module rendering said assigned media segments on said parts of said screen;

a playback module playing back said assigned media segments in various qualities wherein said various qualities include obfuscating, blocking, and replacing media segments based on attributes and policy and wherein the playing back further comprises obfuscating the media segments based on attributes or replacing media segments with others for the purposes of targeted advertisement;

a catalog module representing media metadata about the mobile content;

a summarization module stewarding the media metadata; and

a remote server storing said mobile content and the media metadata, wherein the application retrieves the mobile content from the remote server and accesses the assignment module, the rendering module, the playback module, the catalog module and the summarization module.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a control server storing rules and business logic.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the application retrieves the mobile content using a data network.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the summarization module encodes constraints and media browsing limitations imposed on a user.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein a dynamically generated and customized static view of various media provides a means for comparison of the various media.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said rendering module renders said assigned media segments based on a dynamically changing notion of range of view and focus.

7. A computer readable medium having computer readable program for operating on a computer for generating and presenting summarization of mobile content having media components, said program comprising instructions that cause the computer to perform the steps of:

storing, on a remote server, the mobile content and media metadata;

retrieving, using an application on a mobile device having a screen, the mobile content from the remote server;

assigning one or more of said media segments to one or more parts of said screen, wherein implicit and explicit interests of a user are logged, shared, aggregated, and used by an assignment module as a basis for assigning one or more of said media segments to one or more parts of said screen;

rendering said assigned media segments on said parts of said screen;

playing back said assigned media segments in various qualities, wherein said various qualities include obfuscating, blocking, and replacing media segments based on attributes and policy, and wherein the step of playing back further comprises obfuscating the media segments based on attributes or replacing media segments with others for the purposes of targeted advertisement;

representing media metadata about the mobile content; and

stewarding the media metadata.

8. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, further comprising a step of storing rules and business logic.

9. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the step of retrieving is performed using a data network.

10. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the step of stewarding further comprises encoding constraints and media browsing limitations imposed on a user.

11. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein said step of rendering said assigned media segments is performed based on a dynamically changing notion of range of view and focus.

12. A method for generating and presenting summarization of mobile content having media components, said program comprising instructions that cause the computer to perform the steps of:

storing, on a remote server, the mobile content and media metadata;

retrieving, using an application on a mobile device having a screen, the mobile content from the remote server;

assigning one or more of said media segments to one or more parts of said screen, wherein implicit and explicit interests of a user are logged, shared, aggregated, and used by an assignment module as a basis for assigning one or more of said media segments to one or more parts of said screen;

rendering said assigned media segments on said parts of said screen;

playing back said assigned media segments in various qualities wherein said various qualities include obfuscating, blocking, and replacing media segments based on attributes and policy and wherein the step of playing back further comprises obfuscating the media segments based on attributes or replacing media segments with others for the purposes of targeted advertisement;

representing media metadata about the mobile content; and

stewarding the media metadata.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising a step of storing rules and business logic.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step of retrieving is performed using a data network.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step of stewarding further comprises encoding constraints and media browsing limitations imposed on a user.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein said step of rendering said assigned media segments is performed based on a dynamically changing notion of range of view and focus.