Hypervideo: information retrieval at user request
AssigneeVerizon Laboratories Inc.
InventorsJayanta Kumar Dey, Jay Michael Ponte
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose content varies with time. The method takes advantage of information retrieval techniques to select documents related to the portion of the temporal document in which the user has expressed interest.
Claims28
A method for finding documents which relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:
- (a) in response to a signal of interest at a particular time during the temporal document, identifying a portion of the temporal document for which related documents are to be found;
- (b) finding the related documents by use of information retrieval techniques.
A device for finding documents which relate to a portion of a temporal document, comprising:
- (a) means for identifying a portion of the temporal document for which related documents are to be found, in response to a signal of interest at a particular time during the temporal document;
- (b) means for finding the related documents by use of information retrieval techniques.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.