US 11,109,106 B2Granted

Systems and methods for resuming a media asset

AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.

InventorSamuel Filmeyer

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Abstract

Systems and methods address shortcomings in conventional systems by resuming a media asset from a logical point. In some aspects, the systems and methods receive a first input at a first time from a user to pause a media asset at a first position and a second input at a second time from the user to resume the media asset. The systems and methods further determine whether a time period between the first and the second time exceeds a threshold time period. In response to determining that the time period does not exceed the threshold time period, the systems and methods generate the media asset for display beginning at the first position. However, in response to determining that the time period exceeds the threshold, the systems and methods generate the media asset for display beginning at a second position preceding the first position.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for resuming a media asset, comprising:

receiving, at a first time, a first input from a user to pause a media asset at a first position;
receiving, at a second time, a second input from the user to resume the media asset;
determining whether a time period between the first time and the second time is greater than a threshold time period;
and
in response to determining that the time period is greater than the threshold time period:
receiving metadata from a database, wherein the metadata comprises a plurality of time stamps, each time stamp of the plurality of time stamps corresponding to a starting time of a plurality of scenes of the media asset;
storing the plurality of time stamps and the plurality of scenes as a playback hierarchy:
determining a start of a recent scene of the media asset from the playback hierarchy based on the first position;
setting the start of the recent scene as a second position of the media asset, wherein the start of the recent scene is different from the first position;
and
generating the media asset for display beginning at the second position preceding the first position.

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A system for resuming a media asset, comprising:

control circuitry configured to:
receive, at a first time, a first input from a user to pause a media asset at a first position;
receive, at a second time, a second input from the user to resume the media asset;
determine whether a time period between the first time and the second time is greater than a threshold time period;
and
in response to determining that the time period is greater than the threshold time period:
receive metadata from a database, wherein the metadata comprises a plurality of time stamps, each time stamp of the plurality of time stamps corresponding to a starting time of a plurality of scenes of the media asset;
store the plurality of time stamps and the plurality of scenes as a playback hierarchy;
determine a start of a recent scene of the media asset from the playback hierarchy based on the first position;
set the start of the recent scene as a second position of the media asset wherein the start of the recent scene is different from the first position;
and
generate the media asset for display beginning at the second position preceding the first position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/067,042Filed 25 Oct 2016
Published: US 2020/0007943 A12 Jan 2020
Granted: 31 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06F 16/745
Browsing; Visualisation therefor: the internal structure of a single video sequence
H04N 21/47217
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G06F 16/78
Of video data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F 16/783
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using metadata automatically…