Video-enabled community building
AssigneeVirage, Inc.
InventorsDavid Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Abstract
A system and method that provide media content owners the capability to achieve community building goals by exploiting video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling media content on a network or Internet website. The system and method additionally provide website community building mechanisms to community members, thereby allowing the members to customize the actual community websites that many companies and website owners seek in order to enhance e-commerce revenue generation.
Claims29
A video community system, comprising:
- a repository storing video content comprising a plurality of encoded videos and an index of the video content and being accessible by a plurality of user devices;
- and
- a video search and retrieval application configured to search the index of the video content based on a user query and return a search result to at least one of the user devices,
- wherein a selected portion of a selected one of the videos is shareable via an offset video pointer communicated to at least one of the user devices, and wherein the selected portion is made shareable according to a user-selected operation.
A video community system, comprising:
- a repository storing video content comprising a plurality of encoded videos and an index of the video content and being accessible by a plurality of user devices;
- and
- a video search and retrieval application configured to:
- search the index of the video content based on a user query and return a search result to at least one of the user devices;
- and
- share a selected portion of a selected one of the videos via an offset video pointer communicated to at least one of the user devices according to a user-selected operation.
A video community system, comprising:
- means for storing video content comprising a plurality of encoded videos and an index of the video content and being accessible by a plurality of user devices;
- means for searching the index of the video content based on a user query and return a search result to at least one of the user devices;
- and
- means for processing, by at least one computing device, a selected portion of a selected one of the videos according to a user-selected operation so as to be shareable via an offset video pointer with at least one other user.
A method of sharing video in a video community, comprising:
- storing video content comprising a plurality of encoded videos and an index of the video content and being accessible by a plurality of user devices;
- searching the index of the video content based on a user query and returning a search result to at least one of the user devices;
- and
- communicating, by at least one computing device, a selected portion of a selected one of the videos according to a user-selected operation so as to be shareable via an offset video pointer communicated to at least one other user device.
A video community system, comprising:
- a repository storing video content comprising a plurality of encoded videos and an index of the video content and being accessible by a plurality of user devices;
- a video search and retrieval application configured to search the index of the video content and return a search result to at least one of the user devices;
- and
- an application configured to select, as a user-identified favorite, a selected one of the videos.
A video community system, comprising:
- a web-accessible video sharing community configured to offer a plurality of user-selectable operations selected from:
- email, favorites, video upload, and message board;
- a repository comprising a plurality of videos;
- and
- a search and retrieval application configured to access the repository and provide a search result according to a query communicated via a web interface on a user device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.