Method and apparatus for referencing, filtering, and combining content
AssigneeArt Research and Technology, L.L.C.
InventorsDavid Hirschfeld, Mark Phelps, Theodore V. Haig, Barry Fernando
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Abstract
A method and system for annotating playable media files in a social network having a plurality of members, for displaying information associated with the playable media tiles, and for marking a portion of interest in the playable media files is disclosed herein.
Claims20
A method for displaying information associated with a Playable Media File, comprising:
- obtaining stored data describing the information, the stored data comprising a storage location of the playable media file and a plurality of virtual clips each associated with the playable media file and including a first data element identifying a first time within the playable media file at which the corresponding virtual clip begins, and a second data element identifying a first user profile associated with creating the corresponding virtual clip;
- accessing the playable media file at the storage location;
- causing a graphical user interface (GUI) to be displayed on a computing device of a user, wherein said GUI enables the user to generate user inputs by interacting with the GUI, and the GUI comprises:
- a display window for displaying content encoded by the playable media file;
- a first interactable graphical object, wherein the first interactable graphical object overlays a first portion of the display window and displays a timeline representing a duration of the playable media file and a plurality of clip indicators each associated with a corresponding virtual clip of the plurality of virtual clips, each clip indicator appearing on the timeline at a display position corresponding to the first time identified by the first data element of the corresponding virtual clip;
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- a second interactable graphical object, wherein the second interactable graphical object overlays a second portion of the display window, is configured to display up to a first number of graphic elements each associated with a corresponding virtual clip of the plurality of virtual clips, and is initially not displayed in the GUI;
- receiving a first user input indicating a first interaction of the user with a first display position on the timeline;
- determining a selected time within the playable media file that corresponds to the first display position;
- identifying, as a plurality of displayable virtual clips:
- a first virtual clip of the plurality of virtual clips, the corresponding first time of the first virtual clip being the closest, of the plurality of virtual clips, to the selected time;
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- one or more of the virtual clips wherein the corresponding first time precedes and is approximate to the first time of the first virtual clip, and one or more of the virtual clips wherein the corresponding first time is subsequent and approximate to the first time of the first virtual clip, such that at most the first number of the plurality of virtual clips are selected as the one or more displayable virtual clips;
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- updating the user interface on the computing device to display a list of the one or more displayable virtual clips in the second interactable graphical object.
A method for marking a portion of interest in a Playable Media File, comprising:
- causing a recording device to begin capturing a recording of a live event as the Playable Media File;
- while the recording device is capturing the recording, receiving a first user input, the recording device continuing to capture the live content subsequent to the first user input;
- determining from the first user input, a first temporal point of interest during said recording of the Playable Media File;
- generating a first temporal place marker that indexes said first temporal point of interest;
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- electronically storing the first temporal place marker.
The method of 12, wherein the control device communicates to the recording device remotely.
The method of 10, wherein said recording device is selected from the group consisting of a mainframe computer, a mobile telephone, a smart telephone, a personal digital assistant, a personal computer, a laptop, a set-top box, an MP3 player, an email enabled device, a tablet computer, a web enabled device, and other special purpose computer each having one or more processors.
A method of annotating a playable media file, the method comprising:
- obtaining a virtual clip comprising a first location within the playable media file and a second location within the playable media file, the first and second locations together defining a clip of the playable media file occurring between the first and second locations;
- causing, using the virtual clip, the clip to be displayed on a computing device of a user;
- receiving a first user input associated with the virtual clip;
- determining that the first user input conforms to a predetermined format defining taxonomy tags;
- identifying one or more taxonomy tags from the user input;
- and
- associating, in an account of the user, the virtual clip with each of the one or more taxonomy tags identified from the user input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.