US 11,706,388 B2Granted

System and method for movie segment bookmarking and sharing

AssigneeOpen Text SA ULC

InventorsThomas S. Gilley, Eric Hoffert, Brenda Pomerance, Razvan Pop

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

Several ways are provided for a viewer of a movie to create a deep tag, that is, a bookmark for a segment of the movie. The deep tag can be associated with descriptive text and sent to an address provided by the viewer, either an e-mail address or an instant messaging address. Additionally, before the deep tag is created, it can be checked whether the content owner of the movie is known. If known, the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging are followed. If unknown, a set of registered content owners can be alerted of the presence of new content. When ownership of the new content is established, the already-created deep tags can be updated in accordance with the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for movie segment bookmarking and sharing, the method comprising:

providing, by a movie system operating on a server computer to a user device through a user interface, a texture strip comprising frame representations of a video and a marker overlaying the texture strip for marking a segment of the video;
receiving, by the movie system based on the marker overlaying the texture strip, information about the segment of the video, the information indicating a sequential group of frames in the segment of the video;
generating, by the movie system based on the information about the segment of the video, a movie segment bookmark that tags the segment of the video, wherein the movie segment bookmark includes a start time and an end time for the segment of the video;
storing, by the movie system, the movie segment bookmark at a segment address for accessing the segment of the video, the segment address containing at least one of a first identifier identifying the movie segment bookmark, a second identifier identifying the video, the start time, or the end time for the segment of the video;
and
sending, by the movie system, the movie segment bookmark over a network to a viewer device, wherein activating the movie segment bookmark on the viewer device causes the viewer device to play the segment of the video.

3 more elements

A movie system for movie segment bookmarking and sharing, the movie system comprising:

a processor;
a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
and
instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and translatable by the processor for:
providing, to a user device through a user interface, a texture strip comprising frame representations of a video and a marker overlaying the texture strip for marking a segment of the video;
receiving, based on the marker overlaying the texture strip, information about the segment of the video, the information indicating a sequential group of frames in the segment of the video;
generating, based on the information about the segment of the video, a movie segment bookmark that tags the segment of the video, wherein the movie segment bookmark includes a start time and an end time for the segment of the video;
storing the movie segment bookmark at a segment address for accessing the segment of the video, the segment address containing at least one of a first identifier identifying the movie segment bookmark, a second identifier identifying the video, the start time, or the end time for the segment of the video;
and
sending the movie segment bookmark over a network to a viewer device, wherein activating the movie segment bookmark on the viewer device causes the viewer device to play the segment of the video.

7 more elements

A computer program product for movie segment bookmarking and sharing, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor of a movie system for:

providing, to a user device through a user interface, a texture strip comprising frame representations of a video and a marker overlaying the texture strip for marking a segment of the video;
receiving, based on the marker overlaying the texture strip, information about the segment of the video, the information indicating a sequential group of frames in the segment of the video;
generating, based on the information about the segment of the video, a movie segment bookmark that tags the segment of the video, wherein the movie segment bookmark includes a start time and an end time for the segment of the video;
storing the movie segment bookmark at a segment address for accessing the segment of the video, the segment address containing at least one of a first identifier identifying the movie segment bookmark, a second identifier identifying the video, the start time, or the end time for the segment of the video;
and
sending the movie segment bookmark over a network to a viewer device, wherein activating the movie segment bookmark on the viewer device causes the viewer device to play the segment of the video.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/836,860Filed 9 Jun 2022 · continuation
Priority: 23 May 2005
Published: US 2022/0303504 A122 Sep 2022
Granted: 18 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

H04N 7/173
Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems: with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
G06F 16/78
Of video data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F 16/7844
Using metadata automatically derived from the content: using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio…
G11B 27/034
Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals: on discs

Family

Application60/683,662Us provisional application · filed 23 May 2005
Application11/439,593Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 May 2006
Application11/439,594Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 May 2006
Application11/439,600Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 May 2006
Application11/592,901Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 3 Nov 2006
Application11/713,115Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Feb 2007
US 8,755,673 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 25 Jan 2011
US 8,145,528 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 27 Mar 2012
US 8,724,969 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 13 May 2014
US 7,877,689 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Jun 2014
Application15/365,308Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Nov 2016
US 9,648,281 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 9 May 2017
Application16/744,840Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Jan 2020
US 10,594,981 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Mar 2020
Application17/209,101Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Mar 2021
US 10,958,876 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Mar 2021
US 2022/0303504 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Sep 2022
US 11,381,779 B2Parent of this continuation
Application11/713,115Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2006/0263037 A1Published application
US 2006/0263038 A1Published application
US 2006/0265657 A1Published application
US 2007/0055986 A1Published application
US 2007/0154190 A1Published application
US 2017/0084308 A1Published application
US 2020/0154079 A1Published application
US 2021/0211610 A1Published application
US 11,706,388 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.