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US 2003/0196164 A1Published application
Annotations for multiple versions of media content
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsANOOP GUPTA, DAVID M. BARGERON
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Abstract
Multiple different versions of the same multimedia content are available to a multimedia server. An annotation server maintains annotations corresponding to the multimedia content, each such annotation corresponding to each of the different versions of the multimedia content.
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A system comprising:
- a multimedia server having access to a plurality of media streams that represent different versions of multimedia content;
- an annotation database, coupled to the multimedia server, that stores a plurality of annotations, wherein each of the plurality of annotations corresponds to each of the plurality of media streams;
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- an annotation server, coupled to the annotation database, to manage storage and retrieval of the plurality of annotations.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a storage device to store a data structure;
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- an annotation module to store an annotation in the storage device so that the annotation is correlated with different versions of the same multimedia content via the data structure.
One or more computer-readable media having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:
- a first data field containing data representing an annotation corresponding to multimedia content;
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- a second data field, correlated through the data structure to the first data field, so that the second data field identifies a plurality of different versions of the multimedia content to which the annotation corresponds.
A method comprising:
- receiving a user request to create a new annotation;
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- associating the new annotation with a set of media streams, wherein the set of media streams is part of a plurality of media streams, and wherein each of the plurality of media streams is a different version of multimedia content.
A method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a version of media content being presented to a user;
- identifying a collection of annotations corresponding to the media content, each annotation corresponding to a plurality of different versions of the media content;
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- providing selected annotations from the collection of annotations to the client computer for presentation to the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.