Auto-Summarizing Video Content System and Method

A method for auto-summarizing video and audio content, comprising:

• retrieving, with a remote terminal at a service provider, video and audio content from a content database;
• transmitting, with the remote terminal, the video and audio content to at least one user device among a plurality of user devices over a network;
• streaming, with the remote terminal, the video and audio content on the at least one user device;
• receiving, with a summary server at the service provider, one or more inputs from at least one user among a plurality of users, the plurality of users being associated with the plurality of user devices, said one or more inputs comprising one or more triggers;
• determining, with the summary server, one or more time codes each corresponding to each of the one or more triggers;
• storing, in a time code database, the one or more time codes;
• analyzing, with the summary server, the one or more time codes to determine at least one selected time code among the one or more time codes that exceeds a predetermined number, each of said at least one selected time code including a central selected time code and a range of time codes spanning a predetermined number of seconds before and after the central selected time code;
• determining, with the summary server, one or more selected segments of the video and audio content corresponding to the at least one selected time code;
• creating, with the summary server, one or more summary tracks, each of the one or more summary tracks comprising each of the one or more selected segments, wherein each of the one or more summary tracks further comprises at least one of a back-stepped segment of the video and audio content or a forward-stepped segment of the video and audio content;
• compiling, with the summary server, the one or more summary tracks into a summary sequence;
• storing, with the summary server, the summary sequence in a summary database.